Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 2 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 3 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 4 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 5 | Reality was thrust upon us by a passing Midland H.S.T. , as our loco ran round at Riddings . |
| 6 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 7 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 8 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 9 | The Creator is revealed to us as a rational , moral , feeling person , capable of making choices . |
| 10 | Our values are distorted by the power of advertising and the ideology fed to us via the mass media , they would claim . |
| 11 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 12 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 13 | A man talked to us about the Christian way of life . |
| 14 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
| 15 | One of many legends on the closeness of human and chimpanzee has been told to us by an old man in the village of Daobli , near our study site in Taï national park . |
| 16 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 17 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 18 | Their being excited in us in an orderly fashion ‘ gives us a sort of foresight , which enables us to regulate our actions for the benefit of life ’ ; and this testifies to God 's wisdom and benevolence . |
| 19 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
| 20 | On the other hand we can not forget the trust placed in us by the general public , nor can we watch the gradual erosion of the original plans without a public protest , and a public request to the health authority to please think again . |
| 21 | The north wind gave the day a restless feeling , and the journey stretched before us like an early map whose faint features were pleasingly unreliable . |
| 22 | I do n't think anyone will dispute that those are not offices suited to us in the nineties . |
| 23 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 24 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
| 25 | It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world . |
| 26 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 27 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
| 28 | I had become engaged to Leading Seaman Arthur Saunders RNVR who was serving in HMS Reading , a fourstacker loaned to us under the lease-lend arrangements . |
| 29 | Above you will find a sample itinerary , prepared to a brief given to us by an imaginary customer . |
| 30 | That evening Sid and I dined off piping hot oxtail soup , steak and kidney pie , followed by a very rich plum duff , all washed down with a bottle of French cider , given to us by the old Frenchman who lived in the cottage near the entrance to the orchard . |