Example sentences of "[verb] us of [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 2 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 3 | True mourning cures us of superficiality . |
| 4 | ‘ And do , for heavens ’ sake , be watchful or they 'll suspect us of collusion . ’ |
| 5 | It heals us of depression and sadness , as if they were intrinsic to the kind of person I believe myself to be . |
| 6 | ‘ And you 'll join us of course , Merrill ? ’ he concluded . |
| 7 | ‘ He can not hear us of course , ’ said Fael-Inis . |
| 8 | It is only through the agency of the Holy Spirit , enabling us to repent and believe , convicting us of sin and making Jesus attractive to us , that we ever become Christians . |
| 9 | Mourning also cleanses us of pity , which can be a subtle form of pride , or of self-pity which is a form of blindness to life as it really is . |
| 10 | No sooner had we done so when a staff officer drove up in a car , accused us of looting and ordered us to put the tins back in the cases . |
| 11 | It 's the mediocre that drags us all down to a common denominator ; … that deprives us of judgement ; … that particularly deprives us of a sense of humour . |
| 12 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 13 | ‘ Reminds us of ambient raving on the beach after a day 's canoeing . ’ |
| 14 | The myrrh reminds us of death , again connecting Jesus and Arthur . |
| 15 | They and their disused railway lines remind us of wealth in the last century — but unemployment during the last 50 years . |
| 16 | We can not be far from the day of the conversation robot that will relieve us of obligation to greet politely the occasional recognisable human that strays across our path . |
| 17 | Money : can help us achieve things , influence others , and free us of dependency on people or situations . |
| 18 | An arsenal of political treacheries was employed to impede our progress , from the medium-range one of accusing us of lacking the right political perspective , to the more insidious long-range ones of accusing us of divisiveness , bringing men into feminism by speaking about the war in Ireland and , even on one occasion , attempting to show an exhibition — the famous , ‘ Bin Lids and Barricades ’ . |
| 19 | The French have been accusing us of lack of co-operation lately — military co-operation , that is . |
| 20 | We 're looking forward to the next issue , reminding us of home . |
| 21 | You will remember that this is a commendation given to a shop or dealer on behalf of a reader who has written to tell us of service above and beyond the call of duty . |
| 22 | They can also delude us of course , and the obscured line between revelation and illusion is a distinction to cling to as best one can , to be clarified by reason in retrospect or not at all . |