Example sentences of "us [prep] the past " in BNC.
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| 1 | The role of finds in dating is looked at in the next chapter , but perhaps the most obvious way in which finds can tell us about the past is by providing evidence about ancient technology . |
| 2 | He can defend us , can separate us from the past , from the concentration camps and lost wars . |
| 3 | They are looking at job-weighting , concepts of ‘ stewardship ’ and performance measurement in the knowledge that greater flexibility in pay ( and recruitment ) will be crucial factors in escaping from what Mr Montagu calls ‘ the rigidities that have bedevilled us in the past ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ The City is certainly more inclined to look kindly on the film trade than before , and thus a considerable weight that has handicapped us in the past is removed ’ , remarked John Maxwell , as he launched British International Pictures ( BIP ) as a public company with interests in production , exhibition and distribution . |
| 5 | Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices . |
| 6 | There is between us in the past a shared glory and a shared misfortune … ’ |
| 7 | Although they have managed without financial support from us in the past , things are getting progressively difficult and it may be that should we help them financially as well as with manpower . |
| 8 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 9 | ‘ S funny , in n it , ’ he ruminated , ‘ ow we got yer on the run today , arter all yer wins over us in the past ? |
| 10 | Oh , cos he did a couple of nice bits for us in the past |
| 11 | So often , what has happened to us in the past determines whether or not we find it easy to trust both ourselves and others emotionally as adults . |
| 12 | Appreciative of the loyalty you have given us in the past , we are once again asking for your support . |
| 13 | It 's been too easy to stick a label on us in the past which says volume car maker . |