Example sentences of "[adj] [verb] us with " in BNC.
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| 1 | That blessed us with the vision faith had won , |
| 2 | This provided us with an opportunity to investigate the whales to see if we could discover anything about them that might explain why they had beached themselves . |
| 3 | This provided us with fantastic entertainment , and more seriously , a talking point about respecting peoples views — particularly within our church communities . |
| 4 | Philip VI did so at Crécy in 1346 ; John II was captured at the battle of Poitiers in 1356 ; Charles VII personally led the assault on Pontoise in 1441 ; while on the English side Edward III and Henry V provide us with excellent examples of the martial qualities demonstrated by certain kings . |
| 5 | Apparently the retired sea captain , in whose house we were billeted , was willing to provide us with beds ashore , but nothing else . |
| 6 | Not only does this provide us with the content to be taught , but it also lays the foundation on which final assessment can be based ; however , before we can devise our objectives , two further collections of information are needed . |
| 7 | 1993 presents us with a new challenge in the form of charges for admission to non-members and some other services . |
| 8 | This presented us with a problem . |
| 9 | This left us with two alternatives for our 4-year-old . |
| 10 | ‘ Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some beat us with rifles ’ . |
| 11 | Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some kicked us , some pulled and pushed us , some beat us with rifles . |
| 12 | If we persist in interpreting virginity and motherhood only in a physical sense this leaves us with a problem , and she once again becomes a burden by being an impossible act to follow . |
| 13 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 14 | Thus although it is commonly suggested that the notion of certainty is relevant to the analysis of claims to knowledge , but not to the analysis of knowledge itself ( e.g. , in Woozley , 1953 ) , this leaves us with no method of explaining why certainty should be required before one can claim knowledge when it is not required for knowledge itself , i.e. , for the existence of what one is claiming . |
| 15 | This leaves us with possibility 1 . |
| 16 | This will not be enough , either , if by " syntax " we agree to mean mere syntactic cohesion ; by itself , this leaves us with simple facts about grouping and nothing more . |
| 17 | The examples of ( 32 ) are simply associatives , as treated above in Chapter 2 : ( 32 ) a criminal lawyer subterranean explorer electrical worker 6.6 This leaves us with a small number of other phrases such as those in ( 33 ) , which turn out to be worth further investigation : ( 33 ) a true poet our late president a sheer fraud a real friend the future king my old school We certainly agree that there is an intuitively different " feel " to these , and a few others which can be found in the corps of English adjectives , and we would agree also that this has something to do with the distinction between referent ( or entity ) and sense ; however , we can not agree with Bolinger 's verdict that they are adjectives which qualify sense only . |
| 18 | So , how does this help us with the circular rows we do during the cast on sequence ? |
| 19 | This provides us with our next guideline . |
| 20 | Because you would be saying well if we have classes this provides us with a way forward for the future in a way that if we have absolute egalitarianism that , how would we make progress through to socialism ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 22 | These Adoimara Danakil were glad to have us with them , for they were expecting yet another raid by the Asaimara . |
| 23 | A daughter of Bobby — one of the celebrated ‘ Brothers ’ — Aoife has recently returned after two years spent singing in Australia , and is sure to delight us with her songs , both traditional and contemporary . |
| 24 | The carbohydrates , fats and proteins in food all provide us with energy , for example ( see section 5.2 ) . |
| 25 | He was really friendly actually , he got him out , and it was quite , sort of good to help us with it , you know , I just did n't have a clue . |
| 26 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 27 | Such surveys are , of course , confidential leaving us with a cold set of statistics and meaningless fractions such as . |
| 28 | Is either of these two properties able to provide us with a slightly weaker but still attractive form of classical foundationalism ? |
| 29 | It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose . |
| 30 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |