Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us with " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 2 | Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image . |
| 3 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 4 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 5 | We had a couple of bottles of champagne to greet the travellers , and Gabby and her husband came in to help us with them and we all toasted Nigel 's ‘ recovery ’ . |
| 6 | Erm Lisa is that I 'm not quite sure , from the York University student rooms , is in to help us with the big box pile up . |
| 7 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |
| 8 | He argues that reality resembles a cinematographic film , a ceaseless unwinding an moving , but the intellect is so constituted , that it can only provide us with stills , separate and immobile , from that motion film which is reality . |
| 9 | Another suggestion one tends to hear is that animals should live on our farms but not be killed , only providing us with milk , wool and manure . |
| 10 | No one of the theories we have set down is all wrong , any more than any one perspective is all right so providing us with a single key to " explain " British politics . |
| 11 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 12 | The micro , which is itself able to display rich patterns of behaviour , perhaps presents us with these opportunities for the first time . |
| 13 | A man who once talked to a selection committee about the battle of Waterloo , he likes his unexpected allusions and so hits us with Lobenegula ( King of the Matabele , was it ? ) |
| 14 | Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker , impress us with the illusion of design and planning . |
| 15 | ‘ Sergeant , just refresh us with your information again . ’ |
| 16 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
| 17 | It 's strange that the Germans have not attacked us with tanks . |
| 18 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
| 19 | Thus even if we accept that the duty of directors to act in the best interests of shareholders can be equated with a duty to maximize profits this does not provide us with any real assurance that the wishes of the shareholders are being executed by the directors or that we have a satisfactory way of controlling the discretion accorded to directors in the name of the Rule of Law . |
| 20 | The agreements that we have will not provide us with time off with pay for this purpose . |
| 21 | Cramlington and North Shields provide examples of a core and outer locale respectively , but they do not provide us with an account of ‘ inner-ring ’ developments . |
| 22 | The two groups of cases discussed above reflect different answers to that question , and Lord Esher 's analysis simply reiterates ex post that divergence ; the analysis does not provide us with an ex ante tool with which to determine which group a case should fall into . |
| 23 | This issue has also been addressed by other researchers , but the results do not provide us with a comprehensive national picture based on systematic analysis of the performance of non-traditional students . |
| 24 | Kirov has already supplied us with a list of the elite Soviet squadrons equipped with the modified Foxbats . |
| 25 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 26 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
| 27 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 28 | I believe that the accounts , whilst complying as John has just told us with the Companies Act , do give , I hope , as full and an informative picture as possible and therefore I do n't intend to talk about them in detail . |
| 29 | He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like . |
| 30 | It appears that P.wickerhamii has accumulated far less mutations in its mtDNA compared to higher plants than Chlamydomonas , thus providing us with a well suited model organism to study the plant-algal mitochondrial lineage for the first time . |