Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool University has not approached us regarding flood defence assessment . ’ |
| 2 | You 've caught us at kind of a low point . ’ |
| 3 | Our new landlady made it clear that she was delighted to accept us in preference to yet more evacuee children . |
| 4 | The first two hours knock us into shape , however , as we battle with the boulder-strewn approach to Condoriri . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 6 | And also using the distribution of of deliveries to the door daily we can also use the sales staff to as assist us in distribution . |
| 7 | We left the trees and walked now between high stands of phragmites and reedmace , pausing at a reed screen positioned to hide us from sight . |
| 8 | Despite fourteen years of trying to smash us into submission , they 'll fail to break the spirit of the working people of Britain . |
| 9 | As well as giving us data for the industry , the LFS provided us with information about the narrow ( KOS ) occupational group of waiters and bar staff in which casuals are concentrated . |
| 10 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 11 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 12 | We asked him where it came from in the bible , and he referred us to Exodus chapter 14 . |
| 13 | In support of his employment Mr. Collins referred us to Reg. v. Liverpool Corporation , Ex parte Liverpool Taxi Fleet Operators ' Association [ 1972 ] 2 Q.B . |
| 14 | However , the range of scientific techniques will also grow , no doubt enabling us to provenance materials with greater speed and accuracy in the future . |
| 15 | We can work with the class to create a story in which they all have a stake , slowing it down at particular moments , thereby creating strong dramatic tension , deepening understanding and also enabling us to value publicly the contribution of particular children . |
| 16 | Labour is said to be in terminal decline because we have failed to identify , let alone appeal to , a natural constituency we might expect to provide us with majority support . |
| 17 | Our billetors were obliged to provide us with breakfast , which might be taken about 7.30 ( or 10.30 if we had been on night duty ) , and one other meal which had also to be a moveable feast . |
| 18 | Without perceptual systems to provide us with knowledge of the outside world we are impotent . |
| 19 | For your part , we very mich hope that piloting centres will use all available channels to provide us with feedback — whether this is at a seminar or centre visit , via the piloting questionnaire , or through informal contacts with the piloting team at SCOTVEC . |
| 20 | Montague and the sergeant-major called incessantly , keeping us in line . |
| 21 | Erm so he 's keeping us in limbo really |
| 22 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 23 | The guard invited us for tea . |
| 24 | He was a friend of a friend , and gave us a warm welcome and invited us to lunch . |
| 25 | He gave us his telephone number at the Ministry , and one afternoon when we rang him there he invited us to dinner . |
| 26 | Wishes provide us with motivation and strategy , for without the greed of a wish we would never get started . |
| 27 | The carbohydrates , fats and proteins in food all provide us with energy , for example ( see section 5.2 ) . |
| 28 | Their biographies provide us with access to the professional and class alliances which fed into the politics of mid-Victorian social reform . |
| 29 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 30 | The Dundee deaconess , who helped us with advice about children 's books an her own delightful design for a Chalet School sampler , said that she hoped our efforts together would bring ‘ help , food and life to many . ’ |