Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 2 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 3 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 4 | After climbing to the top of the largest crater , the boat took us to a small bay on Palea Kameni where you can swim to the hot springs and delve into the orange mud of the sea bed , supposedly wonderful for your skin ! |
| 5 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 6 | We slanted across the river , the wind carrying us against the current , and coasted up the far bank . |
| 7 | The programme provides us with a quaint selection of Sons , Brides and other relations of Frankenstein , all based on some English lady 's knock-off of Rabbi Judah Loewe and the golem of Prague . |
| 8 | David Goldsmith treats us to a bumper four-page collection , including matting , bindings , boots and bleepers |
| 9 | In particular , Oakeshott 's conception provides us with an insightful critique of Dicey 's method in Law of the Constitution . |
| 10 | At its best , pluralist-orientated research provides us with an idealised description , in this case of the backward region , which puts certain features in very high relief ; in Banfield 's study , these features are mainly related to individual attitudes . |
| 11 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 12 | The texts of Roman law bring us to the intriguing conclusion that by late classical times the only person who acquired property under trust and with it an unassailable title was the bona fide purchaser for value without notice . |
| 13 | You are required by law to provide us with the following information : — |
| 14 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 15 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 16 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |
| 17 | The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind . |
| 18 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 19 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 20 | This quotation points us towards an historical account of both the ‘ social evolution of Britain ’ and the ‘ certain political factors ’ which have weakened the ‘ class ’ alignment in British politics . |
| 21 | This last point leads us to an important , but frequently misunderstood , concept in the analysis of discourse . |
| 22 | The team served us with a final cocktail of emotions : happy , poignant and even philosophical . |
| 23 | Or the planet gets it ! ’ our jolly NME team jive us from the inside back cover of a recent ish . |
| 24 | In the 12 chapters the author takes us from a basic introduction to the design of synthesis , through the various methodologies , to a few selected total syntheses . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 27 | the ordering of the strata ( layers ) of sediment on an archaeological site provides us with a relative dating technique . |
| 28 | Let me quote Professor Adolf Butenandt , Nobel prize-winning biologist : ‘ Even though modern biology provides us with a new outlook and a deeper insight into the nature of many living phenomena , it does not answer the question of what life itself is . ’ |
| 29 | What does this survey of the impact of the second wave tell us about the likely impact of the third wave in the 1990s and the consequences for developing managers ? |
| 30 | Part of the inner route takes us through a narrow gap between a promontory of Fetlar called the Ness of Urie , and a small skerry which has a patch of grass on top . |