Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The huge conglomerates that assemble on such occasions provide us with some of the greatest spectacles in the animal world . |
| 32 | Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear . |
| 33 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |
| 34 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |
| 35 | The kindness of our neighbours helped us over this difficult period . |
| 36 | One of the things that helped us over this difficult period was the fact that earlier that year the cutter crews had decided to form their very own association . |
| 37 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 38 | Alf 's grand-daughter , Ann Parker , still lives in Darlington and kindly helped us with these illustrations from her collection of footballing photographs , medals and newspaper cuttings . |
| 39 | Following toasts to the University , to Convocation and to our Guests , Mr Orme rounded off the evening by regaling us with some reminiscences of his early days in Parliament , where he has served for Salford West from 1964–1983 and Salford East since 1983 during which time he has held several posts in Government and on the Opposition front bench , and going on to more recent experiences whilst visiting Eastern Europe as the moves towards democracy gathered strength . |
| 40 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 41 | Unless it starts us down that road fairly quickly , the people of the north-east and the other regions will not want to follow . |
| 42 | The snows of Mount Hermon streaming northwards , the blue vales of Galilee , the brown waters of the Litani encircled us in that little cyclone , We could be seen , for above the sound of the gale we heard the clatter of bullets tossed by the wind against the ramparts . |
| 43 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 44 | My own daughter , God preserve us from such wickedness . ’ |
| 45 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
| 46 | My Dad ( who smoked ! ) caught us on that occasion and my punishment was being forced to smoke a whole cigarette ( which I did n't want ) in front of my friends who were called into the front room especially to witness the humiliation . |
| 47 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 48 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 49 | ‘ Awaken us from this nightmare , Huy . |
| 50 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 51 | It was agreed that the Secretary of the Party would ask the Party to inform us of any awards , plaques etcetera , that could be presented to recognize his length of membership . |
| 52 | ‘ But thinking I could orchestrate us like that was pretty high-handed . ’ |
| 53 | The vendor of our current house also put us under some pressure to keep on her cleaner but , this time , we waited until the exchange of contracts to reject the idea . |
| 54 | and really always has been , erm , the idea of a centre is , is simply because you consider how much it costs to have a point wired when the house is , is built , er several people nowadays is ha well they buy an old house , they erm , say well we 'll take out the centre light and put us in some wall lights instead you see . |
| 55 | Let us at this point , though , not take anything away from Hick . |
| 56 | Let us by all means have a national core curriculum ; and let children be tested in the subjects that make up that curriculum . |
| 57 | Let us by all means give our classic a regular airing and add a new accessory . |
| 58 | Do you set out the sum , er you must set out some calculation of how many you are likely to lose over the life of the aircraft , is there a percentage figure you could give us for that ? |
| 59 | So can you give us on that . |
| 60 | calculation and the land-take calculation so it would n't present us with any erm particular |