Example sentences of "[am/are] [vb pp] [prep] us [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Those who think that ideas consist of images which are formed in us by the concourse of bodies … regard ideas as lifeless pictures on a board , and preoccupied thus with this misconception they do not see that an idea , insofar as it is an idea , involves affirmation or negation .
2 Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them .
3 These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus .
4 Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text .
5 It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications .
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