Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But I wish to relate to the council a particular episode , which I hope will convey something to those people who are perhaps still wavering erm , and whilst we all have principle stands on issues it behoves us as members to consider the views of our constituents and the sorts of things that take place in our wards . |
| 2 | They lead to habits of attention that ‘ … hurry us through encounters with works … eclipse the unique features of lived occasions and … reduce experience to the reaction of a limited number of stereotyped patterns ’ ( Jenkins , 1958 , p. 225 ) . |
| 3 | WE asked five city fashion shops to provide us with clothes which they considered epitomised Merseyside style : |
| 4 | You see when the erm legislation changes shortly , well the legislation is there but when it 's enacted erm they they will become responsible for repairing after their own hole digging and they have to provide us with guarantees . |
| 5 | Constitutional theory , in explaining how the various institutions of the state work together and in offering a particular theory of representation connecting state to society , seeks to provide us with answers to large and profound questions about who governs and how ; about who should govern and how ; and about the respective rights of people and the privileges of property in British politics . |
| 6 | Apparently the retired sea captain , in whose house we were billeted , was willing to provide us with beds ashore , but nothing else . |
| 7 | The job of perceptual systems is to provide us with representations of what is happening in the outside world , representations based on information gathered from receptors based in different parts of the body that are tuned to specific classes of physical events . |
| 8 | Instead , I hope to show that Poulantzas relies , for the explanatory force of these claims , on our pre-theoretical , voluntarist understanding of them , and thus fails to provide us with examples of the holistic form of explanation he advocates . |
| 9 | It is as if an invisible force field is keeping us at arms length . |
| 10 | Knelt us to things beyond our reach . |
| 11 | Some of the old guard ashore still regarded us as playboys though , and resented the money that was being spent on the new boats and their equipment . |
| 12 | Central to my analysis of goals is the proposition that the backgrounds of individuals provide us with themes or patterns which reappear in values , beliefs and goals , and then overtly in behaviour . |
| 13 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 14 | Subsequent groupings provide us with Tree-scapes , more Snowscenes , Lakes and Rivers . |
| 15 | Fortunately , the situation is beginning to change as allied disciplines like machine intelligence provide us with models that will allow us to construct theories that are both realistic and have heuristic power . |
| 16 | Our concepts of meaning provide us with bearings on what words mean in context and the context in turn provides us with evidence for extending our conceptual representation of these meanings . |
| 17 | There is an up front awareness of an exchange — if you provide us with typewriters we will place your company logo on our notepaper for a year . |
| 18 | I 'm sure it wo n't be long before she is on the most popular chat shows , telling us of commissions she has undertaken and regaling us with tales of her life when she was actress Delia Abraham , co-starring in the TV version of Nell Dunn 's Up The Junction , and appearing in rep alongside Kate O'Mara . |
| 19 | Within two weeks we were encouraging our readers to lobby their MPs concerning the restrictive Night Assemblies Bill , Robert Tripp was regaling us with tales of groupies and interviews had taken on a new air of contention , seriousness and madness . |
| 20 | He could n't care less that very few viewers take his programme seriously , regaling us with tales of the terrible people they 've featured . |
| 21 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 22 | He has us in fits and the funny thing was we were sat listening to him the other night , all having us dinner , we 're sat at table and it was ever so quiet listening to him and he sort of erm he mimics the other bird |
| 23 | In addition , local boroughs and health authorities fund us through grants and service contracts . |
| 24 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 25 | It 's strange that the Germans have not attacked us with tanks . |
| 26 | He does n't consider us as rivals in the large-animal field . ’ |
| 27 | Pop would go out in the morning scouring the countryside for meat and vegetables , and sometimes having to dive into a culvert if there was a raid ; meanwhile the officers would shepherd us into trenches and play games until the raid was over . |
| 28 | Because only a small handful of events can ever be experienced by individuals at first hand , we inevitably rely on the mass media to inform us about events beyond our immediate grasp . |
| 29 | They then put us on trucks to bring us here and anyone who tried to escape was beaten senseless . " |
| 30 | I need a visa and have failed to obtain one , Rosita likewise , and so they put us behind bars like prisoners . |