Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 2 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 3 | Our second association item takes us to a late autumn in the next reign . |
| 4 | Speech act theory provides us with a means of probing beneath the surface of discourse and establishing the function of what is being said . |
| 5 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 6 | Surely those were good questions which need answering , and to abandon the community interpretation deprives us of the only possible answer . |
| 7 | And so to take examples among longer poems a new kind of satire , Dryden 's Absalom and Achitophel , is in fact a mock-epic , attacking and yet leaning for support upon Milton 's Paradise Lost ; even the extremely violent novelty of T. S. Eliot 's The Waste Land reminds us of a Renaissance or Arthurian version of its text , which is rarely present on the surface but against which the poem reverberates and resounds most deeply . |
| 8 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 9 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
| 10 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
| 11 | And so the very next day Helen told us of a night time that he was gon na stay and early in the morning he come back door with some papers and I said oh take well it never comes to more than six pound ninety or seven pound fifty but he calls it . |
| 12 | The court proceedings provided us with a platform ; fines and suspended sentences conferred on us an aura of minor martyrdom … |
| 13 | 1 April : The Sun guns for Jack Straw , for having three houses : ‘ I 'm alright Jack — Shadow education minister lectures us on the scandal of private education from the luxury of his £300,000 cottage , his £200,000 town house and his £40,000 flat ! ’ |
| 14 | As reports from the Select Committee on Defence have made clear over the past few years , defence cuts are proceeding at such a pace that , if a future Labour Government continued in the same way , we would be left with Securicor and Group 4 to defend our shores and a steamship company to provide us with a substitute for the Royal Navy . |
| 15 | I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer . |
| 16 | The paradigm example to remind us of the conventionality of the relationship between meanings and perceptions is the case of expressions for colour , and this holds good even if we are willing to accept a case for the universality of certain focal points of colour perception . ) |
| 17 | After the shopping spree Mary took us to a little tea shop for tea and cakes and then we returned happily with our presents . |
| 18 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 19 | The intervening years have seen the chip gradually replacing the cathode ray to provide us with the most pervasive and persuasive form of global mass communication . |
| 20 | All that we said in Part 2 about exploiting the control video gives us over the material is as relevant to the teacher trainer as it is to the teacher . |
| 21 | What then do these culture experiments using denatured single collagens or collagen sandwiches tell us of the nature of hepatocyte-matrix interaction ? |
| 22 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 23 | Without a word Ramses led us to a boat moored at the end of the dock , a small felucca with a heavily patched sail . |
| 24 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 25 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 26 | Our last cliff path led us above the water , west into the setting sun , to Mgarr where we had landed a week earlier . |
| 27 | We would go down to the Seine and speak of water , boats and fish ; or we would go to the public park , where a few birds languished in an ancient aviary and the old mynah bird entertained us with a lavish range of endearments . |
| 28 | And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose . |
| 29 | In fact , the whole prime ministerial government thesis presents us with a singularly " flat " view of power that is only attentive to action on the surface . |
| 30 | What we were doing was a half-hour walkabout to accustom us to the feel of the birds . |