Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 2 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 3 | And my comment would be that the spirit guides us in our understanding of the bible , needs to be augmented by the words and in our daily lives before the words renews us in the sacraments and calls us to serve God in the world . |
| 4 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 5 | The Gospels present us with a picture of Jesus of Nazareth searching out those left on the edge , and bringing them into the heart of God 's kingdom . |
| 6 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 7 | Nathan and I are quite alone , many miles from civilization and , apparently , lost , the wind having blown snow across the tracks ahead suggests that we just let the dogs lead us towards the others , a well-reasoned idea that works perfectly . |
| 8 | The provincials regarded us as a gassy , protesting , quarrelsome , cantankerous crowd , very good at cursing the enemy and cursing ourselves , but no good at effective fighting against the well organised political parties . |
| 9 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 10 | What you have seen today may well be the best lesson you will ever learn of the difficulties facing us in the outside world . |
| 11 | We were well aware of the problems facing us in the future , and the pressing need was for more and more information about the operations of the big smuggling syndicates . |
| 12 | The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music . |
| 13 | A seagull on one of the lifeboats regarded us with a voyeur 's eye . |
| 14 | Poetry and vision are the sails to take us to a universe as vast as that of Boltzmann . |
| 15 | At least the days of Friday night being the night the neighbours report us to the NSPCC for malicious blinding of offspring with intent are over . |
| 16 | And yeah another one connected to this whole lifestyle , aspirational argument the image the brochures give us of a couple si sitting on a terrace with , you know , you can almost hear the music in the background , the sun setting over the sea . |
| 17 | After two or three days of exploring Stanley and its environs it was time to go to ‘ camp ’ ( from a Spanish word ‘ campos ’ meaning countryside ) and our tour of the islands took us to the three or four places equipped to deal with small parties of visitors . |
| 18 | " The ceremonies taught us by the Chinese emperors ceased to be celebrated fourteen years ago in China itself when the revolution of Sun Yat-sen put an end to the Manchu dynasty . |
| 19 | And Taylor said : ‘ At last , our young players now have the facilities to put us at the top of the world game . ’ |
| 20 | The drums lead us through the warren of narrow alleys to a courtyard whose entrance is blocked by a knot of people . |