Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] us with " in BNC.
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1 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
2 | It 's strange that the Germans have not attacked us with tanks . |
3 | ‘ West Brom will be less apprehensive about the replay , but playing away from home has not presented us with any major phobia . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | The agreements that we have will not provide us with time off with pay for this purpose . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | You can not tease us with a smidge of inside info on Jon , and not expect us to be hanging on every word . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
13 | With long-term injury victims Graham Hill and Ian Brady only recently back in full training , and not ready for a competitive return , Carroll admits : ‘ The situation does not leave us with many options . ’ |
14 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
15 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
16 | ‘ We have spent thousands of pounds on a survey that does not supply us with the basic information that we need , ’ she said . |
17 | Please candidates , do not deafen us with meaningless statistics about global sums and ‘ improvements in real terms ’ — they are political jargon for covering up the truth . |
18 | But granted the credit for historical reliability which accrues to the evangelists through their reserve about the Spirit , that still does not help us with the problem of why there is practically nothing in the Gospels about men and women being filled with the Holy Spirit now that he was clearly in business again . |
19 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
20 | You would n't recognise us with our clothes on , maybe ? ’ |
21 | calculation and the land-take calculation so it would n't present us with any erm particular |
22 | In terms of illicit drug use , cannabis remains the most er available drug and the most used drug , but having said that it does n't present us with problems to the service . |
23 | ‘ My God , ’ said Wexford in disgust , ‘ I just hope you have n't landed us with a female Tichborne claimant . ’ |
24 | We were of course much hampered by the lack of weather reports to the west of us , as most of our weather comes from the west and Eire , being neutral in the war , did n't supply us with any reports . |
25 | Yeah but that do n't help us with Malcolm does it ? |