Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Guest teacher was Joan Daniels , and we thank Kent display team for joining us despite the miserable weather . |
| 2 | A traditional device for drawing us beyond the possibility of sweetening by sadism , right to the viewpoint of the dying man , is the death speech , at its starkest when Agamemnon cries offstage that he has been struck his mortal blow . |
| 3 | He is in the business of conforming us to the image of his Son , and learning to handle conflict is a part of the spiritual maturity process . |
| 4 | The holiday is tremendous value for money and we feel New Millennium is doing a wonderful job in providing us with the opportunity to visit these Eastern European countries at such competitive prices . |
| 5 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 6 | ‘ My task now is to repay that faith by getting us off the bottom of the league . |
| 7 | Sam , on occasion , played his part by taking us to the annual Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival — a wonderful treat . |
| 8 | The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human . |
| 9 | Again , there are those who would quarrel with this view but let me tell you that we all have a mentor , an inner teacher , a guardian angel , a being of light who protects us and is totally dedicated to the task of leading us to the point of self-realization , to bring about the harmony and peace for which we pray . |
| 10 | Today , the medical establishment , in both Britain and America , is of the opinion that dietary fibre is of value in protecting us from the diseases of modern Western civilization . |