Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] us [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 2 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 3 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 4 | We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name . |
| 5 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 6 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 7 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 8 | The sound moved through us as the gunman 's shoulder and body jerked with the recoil of the rifle , the small boy 's face alert , fixated . |
| 9 | BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue . |
| 10 | There can be no doubt that for many women fear of loss is built into us by the way we 've been reared . |
| 11 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 12 | And who would have thought that as we face the 1990s the social and moral habits of the 1960s should be visited upon us in the guise of AIDS , which threatens to sweep across the world with all the terror and destruction of the black plague in the Middle Ages ? |
| 13 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 14 | Chairman I have an amendment to that motion , because , because I believe it 's important that we start to identify a lot of councils publish at the end of the year for public consumption a list of the allowances drawn by members , and I think that would be very useful and I would make , as an amendment , I would , would add to the proposal put by Mr that we call for a report to be pu er , to be presented to us of the amounts of allowances drawn by members , each member |
| 15 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 16 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 17 | One , stating that ‘ the great task imposed on us in the struggle against Bolshevism resides in the annihilation of eternal Jewry ’ , went on : ‘ Only when you see what the Jew has brought about here in Russia , can you really understand why the Führer began the struggle against Jewry . |
| 18 | Can we please have our walking space back and not be restricted to ‘ pavement space ’ imposed on us by the stalls ? |
| 19 | No demand , however , was made on us by the gate-keeper , the authorities being so liberal as not to charge persons for walking either on the roads or footpaths . |
| 20 | For more than two decades now , first one , then another exercise programme has been thrust at us as the answer to all the ills of modern living from heart attacks to stress . |
| 21 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |
| 22 | What they witnessed , and what was recreated for us by the Ulster Youth Dance Company in Stranmillis College Theatre at the weekend was a spectacle far more disturbing and revolutionary . |
| 23 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 24 | he has done this morning , and he 's talked to us about the film . |
| 25 | and told to us in the days before he died |
| 26 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 27 | MY WIFE and I would like to express our sincere gratitude for the heart-warming friendliness shown to us by the Liverpool citizens we met at the celebrations . |
| 28 | Let us give thanks for the example of love and compassion shown to us by the life of Jesus Christ . |
| 29 | Life in Russia is hard ( and since we deliberately chose to stay in a cheap non-western hotel we experienced some of the hardships first hand ) but I shall never forget the generosity and overwhelming hospitality shown to us by the people of Bastaisk church . |
| 30 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |