Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sam McAughtry , who first took his seat on this stage back in 1985 , will delight us with his humorous and heartwarming tales of life in the Tiger 's Bay district of North Belfast , while the best-selling author of ‘ To School Through the Fields ’ Alice Taylor , comes to us from County Cork with stories of life as a youngster on an isolated farm in that county in the '40s . |
| 2 | He has fooled even us with his pleasant talk to the Men all these years . |
| 3 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
| 4 | God created us for His own purposes , gave us free will to decide between good and evil , but retained unto Himself the ultimate decisions about the creation of life . |
| 5 | he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility . |
| 6 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 7 | As I said God did n't leave it like that , because God did in Jesus Christ what we could never do for ourselves , you see you and I at times we felt that I , I want to be different from that and we , and we pushed against one of these pressures and so that we pushed it out a wee bit , but as we 've pushed there it 's come back in somewhere else and as we 've stopped pushing and we 've gone to another bit so that first that has become , has come back as it was and we spend our lives perhaps running around trying to get the circle back again , it 's an impossible task , we ca n't do it , we spend our whole lives in the frustration things and we , and we start blaming on things , if only that situation was different , if only those circumstances were different , but it 's far , far , far more fundamental than that and we 've got ta come to the place where we say well I ca n't do any thing about it , I 've tried my hardest , but I ca n't do it , and that 's where God comes and says hang on a minute I 'll do it for you and that 's what he did in Jesus Christ , he did for us what we could n't do for ourselves , the bible tells us that Christ is the perfect image of God , it 's in Colossians one fifteen and just er full verses further on in verse nineteen it says in him all the fullness of God , in Jesus , all the fullness of God was pleased to dwell and so in Christ God 's son , God dealt with the problem of sin which had caused that twisting and that warping and that distortion , your life and in my life , that which spoiled his image in us he created us in his image , but you 've only got to look at people today , you 've only got to look at ourselves , see , where is the image of God , is that what God is like , jealous , filled with anger , bitterness , envy , is that what God is like , unclean thinking , is that what God is like that 's not his image , but he created us in his image perfect and what Jesus Christ did on the cross , is to restore that image , that original image in you and me , to recreate us in the image of God , so in |
| 8 | We were strolling along , laughing and joking , when Amelio , a kind of village clown who never seemed to take anything seriously ( and who was never taken seriously himself ) , approached us on his bicycle in a state of great excitement . |
| 9 | He graced us with his presence |
| 10 | In order that he might redeem those who are under the law , that he might bring us into his family . |
| 11 | The consequences of our choice are serious , because God has made us in his image and likeness . |
| 12 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 13 | He re-introduces us to his perfect plan and purpose for us . |
| 14 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 15 | Every afternoon Salah drove us in his jeep to a spring in the desert where he sat in the shade of the palm trees eating watermelon and smoking hashish while we swam . |
| 16 | And you and I , perhaps , we can look back to a day in our life when it was our birthday , as far as that is concerned and God filled us with his Holy Spirit , we received the gift of the Holy Spirit , we were baptized in the Holy Spirit . |
| 17 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 18 | When Kenneth Clarke first told us of his ideas these and other flaws were so obvious that many of us assumed that either we had analysed the situation incorrectly or that he too had spotted the pitfalls and had the solutions up his sleeve . |
| 19 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 20 | Mr Kinnock has made the change all right , and , since he told us in his speech that he has acted with candour , we must believe him . |
| 21 | ‘ The first 20 minutes will be critical and , the way he kicks , Botha could beat us on his own if we give him the chances , ’ said Carling , whose assessment was backed by pack leader Brian Moore . |
| 22 | Yet another element was added to the civilization of Palermo ; and at the very end of our period , in the late 1140s , King Roger II , greatest of the Norman rulers of south Italy and Sicily , created the monument which above all others links us to his world , the royal chapel , the Capella Palatina , Norman Romanesque in architecture , Byzantine in its mosaics , Islamic in its strange and fascinating ceiling . |
| 23 | ‘ Gillian 's uncle is fetching us in his car , Brown Owl , ’ replied Carol . |
| 24 | In his way — at times — he was directing us to his distance from the script , the movie , the work — ‘ Look ! |
| 25 | On Sunday morning Bishop Harris of Middlesbrough celebrated Mass and delivered the homily in which he welcomed us into his diocese and congratulated us on the work we were doing . |
| 26 | An austere prior welcomed us into his chamber and listened carefully to Benjamin 's request . |
| 27 | At other times God is so near us , surrounding us with his presence , that silence becomes the most appropriate way of enjoying the intimacy . |
| 28 | He bombarded us in his zest for education , entertainment and , indeed , any intellectual exercise , but in the early days was oblivious to our hesitant reactions . |
| 29 | Nothing prepares us for his next move . |
| 30 | Then his second epistle informed us of his leaving the home of the Goldbergs , and finding a really good job with General Motors of Detroit . |