Example sentences of "[vb past] us [prep] a [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 2 He provided us with a new theory as to the essential reality of governing , in the period of classical parliamentary government , in the period when members of the Commons enjoyed a golden age of independence between the fall of patronage and the rise of highly organised political parties . |
| 2 | It is only much later , in On Human Conduct ( 1975 ) , that Oakeshott provided us with a comprehensive account of his views on government and law . |
| 3 | This first season with its dramatic results , provided us with a working demonstration of the trap presented by residual material in any earth shifted from one place to another . |
| 4 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 5 | I had hardly had time to consider this problem : rip P J O'Rourke off , or get dressed , before the pilot jerked us into a vertical dive ? |
| 6 | Mr. Ashworth helpfully referred us to a substantial number of United States decisions . |
| 7 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 8 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 9 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 10 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 11 | Barbara joined us as a junior shorthand typist in 1949 . |
| 12 | He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ . |
| 13 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 14 | The team served us with a final cocktail of emotions : happy , poignant and even philosophical . |
| 15 | This decided us on a bold move to facilitate loading . |
| 16 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 17 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 18 | From here , boatmen took us through a dog-leg cave where refracted light gleamed strangely blue in the water . |
| 19 | Police said : ‘ He lied and took us on a wild goose chase . |
| 20 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 21 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 22 | 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 ! |
| 23 | There were three soldiers for every nun ; they tied our hands and took us to a small room , two soldiers pushing each nun . |
| 24 | Reluctantly , he took us to a single kennel at the back of the offices . |
| 25 | After the shopping spree Mary took us to a little tea shop for tea and cakes and then we returned happily with our presents . |
| 26 | A phase of global warming which began about 17,000 years ago took us from a glacial world , up to 5C colder on average than the present one , into the equable post-glacial world of the last 10,000 years . |
| 27 | They saw us as a natural choice to work with . |
| 28 | I was standing in the bows looking forward when suddenly our gently hissing bow-wave turned into a glowing mass of green fire , which reflected from our hull and bathed us in a ghostly light . |
| 29 | , whose organisation distributes many of our export products , highlighted opportunities facing the Company when he presented us with a commemorative certificate to mark the Chilton opening and to celebrate over 15 years of close co-operation . |
| 30 | Above , an awkward shuffle up a short steep wall deposited us on a flat-topped summit of the lesser Drug , with only the choughs for company . |