Example sentences of "[conj] [noun prp] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The final activities were another guided tour , back at Wharf Station , where Graham showed us round the museum that he played a central role in setting up . |
| 2 | It is only much later , in On Human Conduct ( 1975 ) , that Oakeshott provided us with a comprehensive account of his views on government and law . |
| 3 | We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school . |
| 4 | " Did n't you and David interrupt us in the study on my birthday ? |
| 5 | ‘ Ask your mother and Gwen to join us in the garden , will you Andrew ? ’ |
| 6 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 7 | Government comes to be seen as a matter of administration rather than rule and the ideologies of Machiavelli , Locke , Bentham , and Marx provide us with the modern cribs to politics ; a political training in default of a political education . |
| 8 | these met us Dad and Mike met us in the pub after . |
| 9 | I wan na go Black butchers on the square , last time we went to Harrendle Bob and Delph took us in the car |
| 10 | Daly and Caputi take us on a mystical journey through a web of words and meanings , skilfully woven by and for women . |
| 11 | If Magwitch saw us on the river , he could draw his bedroom curtain to show everything was all right . |
| 12 | We did n't get a chance to say any more , because Anthea ushered us into the hall almost immediately afterwards . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Did you see Tamar 's face when Stephen told us about the groom — Davis , was it ? ’ |
| 14 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 15 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 16 | As Christine takes us on a final tour of the house she and Doc D share in a village ten miles out of Norwich , I venture the question that must be on every SHE reader 's lips . |
| 17 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |
| 18 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |