Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 2 | For the Holy Spirit and hope are two sides of the same coin ; respectively the objective and the subjective modes in which the future is made real to us in the present . |
| 3 | ‘ Why could not an entity that had no extension be visible to us under the appearance of … extension ? ’ |
| 4 | No , it says optional , I think it 'll be very optional for us at the moment . |
| 5 | Upson would not normally run the winner again , but as he says , ‘ things are not exactly normal with us at the moment . |
| 6 | We have already initiated contacts with Her Majesty 's Inspectors of Schools , education authorities , Scottish Enterprise , Highlands and Islands Enterprise , and the Scottish Further Education Unit , which will be closely involved with us during the pilot . |
| 7 | All members should have received information about this , but if you have n't , or of you are not a member but would like to be involved with us in the challenge of these days , then please pick up an envelope from the Vestibule . |
| 8 | And I know he was very good to us in the war cos my father was , got a terminal illness and er he used to see that I had a bottle of whisky for dad you know , er the manager did . |
| 9 | The reason we want to adopt other people 's beliefs is that we know that everyone wants their own beliefs to be true : because , as we 've seen , truth is what makes our own beliefs useful to us in the way I described earlier , by making our actions succeed in fulfilling our desires . |
| 10 | Making an Austrian blind for us at the moment . |
| 11 | We too are called to exchange the things that are important to us for the sake of the transformation God wishes to work in us . |
| 12 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 13 | Given the variety of strategies available to us for the pronunciation of words , it is not surprising that there are marked individual differences in the ways in which skilled readers respond to different kinds of words . |
| 14 | We must conclude that this uniquely valid account of King Lear only became available to us with the theory of cognitive metaphor and the publication of Freeman 's paper . |
| 15 | We 've been to visit him , he 's back to visit us , and he 's available to us on the phone for a year , and all of that 's covered by this Department of the Environment . |
| 16 | Then I hesitate to say that there 's probably a more complex issue now even than the Fire Station , erm , the figures which are given incidentally are the original estimate there , because that was what was available to us at the time . |
| 17 | The sequence of studies we have carried out have derived from the tools available to us in the context of psychological and linguistic expertise . |
| 18 | One of the reasons why play is so absorbing is that it is self-initiated , in a way that is not available to us in the process of combatting , enduring or avoiding the slings and arrows of day-to-day living . |
| 19 | In order to create a charge distribution a certain amount of work has to be done , and that is available to us in the form of electrostatic energy . |
| 20 | I began work this morning , together with my Secretary , Mr S Summerchild , and a clerical assistant , Mrs L Padmore , in the premises made available to us by the Government Commission . |
| 21 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |
| 22 | The distinction , though convenient for us at the moment , is not absolute , and just as we can not communicate with only the rules of semantics and grammar , so we just as surely can not communicate very well without them . |
| 23 | On a representative theory of perception , something 's looking white to us consists in our having sensations of white which are excited in us by the object . |
| 24 | Family and kinship relations in an Essex village are laid open to us through the diary . |
| 25 | And a good many are obliged to us for the work they get here . |
| 26 | She said , ‘ You know , they say you 've done the dirty on us in the Council . ’ |
| 27 | It will also have every reason to lose confidence and trust in us , and be more wary of us in the future . |
| 28 | During this period , the American 8th Air Force squadrons of Flying Fortresses and Liberators , many of whom were stationed near to us in the vicinity of Cambridge and Huntingdon , were doing daylight raids deep into Germany , and were rapidly finding out that it was not as easy as they had expected . |
| 29 | The benefits will be very substantial and I believe this initiative could be as significant to us in the future as was SRS when it was introduced all those years ago . |