Example sentences of "have [verb] us [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Evil One may not have come between us and God on a personal level , but as an army he has scattered us all over the place , dumped us unceremoniously in our little religious ghettoes and subcultures , and left us to our own devices . |
| 2 | As the great machine of modernity spins remorselessly round , it has spun us away from the centre of social existence — community life , government , commerce , industry , education , welfare , leisure — to the peripheral margins of societal life . |
| 3 | This has served us well in the past and continues to do so now . |
| 4 | Music has served us well in the past . |
| 5 | Kersey called after him : ‘ Shaw has fixed us up at the hotel on the prom — is that all right ? ’ |
| 6 | If anything could have frightened us away from the proposition it would have been the failure of the Leader of the Opposition to advance a sensible argument on anything at all . |
| 7 | We did laugh so much during those months — you must have seen us sometimes at the cafe . |
| 8 | Essentially this is a matter of love for the total cosmic reality of which we are a part as something whose magnificence transcends our own puny being , and gratitude to it for having brought us forth in the heart of it . |
| 9 | Shama had joined us along with the Sheikha 's mother , a tall , fine-boned woman with compassionate , intelligent eyes . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 11 | had brought us here along the shore , |
| 12 | The route we had taken through the cordillera from Cajamarca had brought us virtually into the outskirts of Tmjillo and we had put up at a hotel in the centre of the city , all three of us more or less out on our feet . |
| 13 | We were surprised that the sultan had even noticed our arrival , but the young courier who had taken us up to the guesthouse laughed . |
| 14 | He 's built us up from the ruins of 1987 . |
| 15 | Our parliamentary tradition and constitutional development and our system of law have set us apart from the continent . |
| 16 | Even in our championship winning year we failed to beat the ‘ elite ’ sides in the league and although Wilko has made a few changes to the squad we still have basically the side and thus the same problems that have cost us dearly in the most important games . |
| 17 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 18 | The industrial revolution and the creation of parks around the country houses have taken us down to the later years of the nineteenth century . |