Example sentences of "[to-vb] we [prep] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You are required by law to provide us with the following information : — |
| 2 | If you are currently unable to provide us with the relevant information , please indicate by which date this would be possible . |
| 3 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 4 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 5 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 6 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 7 | Erm Lisa is that I 'm not quite sure , from the York University student rooms , is in to help us with the big box pile up . |
| 8 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 9 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
| 10 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 11 | eat the right amount of energy ( calories ) to keep us at the right weight |
| 12 | ‘ If there is a god who is able to save us from the blazing furnace , it is our God whom we serve , and he will save us from your power , O king ; but if not , be it known to your majesty that we will neither serve your god nor worship the golden image that you have set up . ’ |
| 13 | Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success . |
| 14 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 15 | R4 THIS MORNING SAYS DON HOWE IS ANOTHER LIKELY CANDIDATE TO TAKE US INTO THE NEW YEAR . |
| 16 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 17 | The seventeen pensioners who were able to join us for the annual get-together enjoyed themselves immensely and are already looking forward to next year 's trip ! |
| 18 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 19 | Alayn , too , immediately afterwards , manages to remind us of the sexual sense of " to ride " in his farewell to Malyne : The miller , too , is like a horse in his sleep ; in his case , however , in his unselfconscious drunken snoring and farting ( 4162 ) . |
| 20 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 21 | It is hard to judge how effective MI6 is today because on the only recent occasion it was needed , to warn us of the Argentinian invasion of the Falkland Islands in 1982 , it either failed completely or the Foreign Office deliberately presented MI6 's information to the government in a way that precluded it being taken seriously . |
| 22 | And you know , if we wait for God to baptize us in the Holy Spirit , can I suggest you 'll wait until you die and still not know that experience . |
| 23 | We hope that you will be able to tell us about the personal side . ’ |
| 24 | Far from being unimportant , the study of administration and institutions has much to tell us about the increasing effectiveness of the state and central government in an aspect of government growing more important with every passing year . |
| 25 | For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies . |
| 26 | Yes , and I remember the tanks moving down Whitehall ; or at any rate I remember the picture I had of them in my head as Tilly Tilling , in the middle of a history class , suddenly began to tell us about the military putsch that was coming . |
| 27 | to rock us in the savage shade |