Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 6 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 7 | One focus is Jesus , who reveals the love of God for us , and so reconciles us to God , ; the other is the spiritual and ethical community which he founded . |
| 8 | Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 11 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 12 | I only want us to be together , always . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image , there being no true face behind the mask . |
| 15 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 16 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 17 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 18 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 19 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 20 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 21 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 22 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 25 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 26 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | I commiserate with my hon. Friend on his misfortune this evening , in finding himself inadvertently supporting us in the Lobby . |
| 30 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |