Example sentences of "have [verb] us [prep] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 2 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 3 | The Operations Officer has briefed us on a shot fired from one of the Turkish observation towers . |
| 4 | J. Howard , Secretary of Areley Kings Machine Knitting Club , has contacted us with a change of details . |
| 5 | In that event , the Antarctic ice sheet has provided us with a sample of a planetary body we have never seen , but which has a Moon-like anorthositic crust and a Moon-like soil layer . |
| 6 | Wolfgang Iser ( 1974 , p.288 ) has provided us with a picture of the competent reader 's behaviour , for — as he says — when we read ‘ we look forward , we look back , we decide , we change our decisions , we form expectations , we are shocked by their nonfulfilment , we question , we muse , we accept , we reject ’ . |
| 7 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 8 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 9 | Addressing a rally on March 9 organized by the Democratic Russia group , Yeltsin called on his fellow radicals to " declare war on the leadership of the country , which has led us into a quagmire " . |
| 10 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |
| 11 | To see Di Stefano , Puskas and Gento caress and flick the ball , to see their back-heel passes and drag-backs and overhead kicks , was to realise that our school-yard coaches had it wrong when they 'd hectored us into a kick-and-run , ‘ fixed bayonets ’ type of football . |
| 12 | It could have turned us into a cinder . |
| 13 | Okay he should , he should have tapped us as a resource certainly . |
| 14 | Before we had time to correct his mistake , Mr Postman had sat us in a row at the top of the courtyard . |
| 15 | Werner Meyer had told us of a pool about five miles from the Rante , known only to the Toraja , where " sacred eels " were occasionally " called forth " by the Tominahs to accept blessed offerings of rice . |
| 16 | Yeah , somebody had told us about a place to go to , asking the bloody earth they were ! |
| 17 | We had to repossess what fate had handed us on a plate , and the only way to do this was to claim that we had willed it all along . |
| 18 | Boxes and boxes of very expensive camera equipment and food supplies had been unloaded from a large helicopter in quiet astonishment by the Norwegian crew before they had abandoned us in a flurry of gravel . |
| 19 | Me dad had hit us with a belt , that 's why I ended up in a home . |
| 20 | In recent months several TH contributors have treated us to a wealth of extremely useful information , advice and tips on how to achieve success with a detector when searching the country 's transport routes . |
| 21 | ‘ Eternal Father , you have placed us in a world of space and time , and through the events of our lives you bless us with your love . |
| 22 | They have landed us with a society which grows increasingly barbaric and animal , in which amoral behaviour is considered the norm . |
| 23 | Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's ! |
| 24 | With you , Mr. Mayor , at the helm , I feel we shall be in no danger of a shipwreck , but I notice you have left nothing to chance , and for safety 's sake have provided us with a lifeboat ’ . |
| 25 | Council have provided us with a table which shows that the present value of one pound per annum , payable for the next twenty five years , discounted at four point five percent is fourteen point eight two eight two one pounds , unquote . |
| 26 | With all these formal and informal constraints , we can see that pure freedom for the individual actor is very unlikely ; considering all these expectations and controls that surround us , Berger 's portrayal of society as a prison begins to seem plausible : ‘ Our considerations of the sociological perspective have led us to a point where society looks more like a gigantic Alcatraz than anything else ’ ( Berger , 1966 , p. 107 ) . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's put us in a fix . ’ |