Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is , that he came to Earth to save mankind from the wrong in the world , which separates us from God . |
| 2 | It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations . |
| 3 | I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision . |
| 4 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 5 | Back to the beginning , and the archery shafts which led us into carbon tubes and the generation of so many new designs for steerable aerobatic kites . |
| 6 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 7 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 8 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 9 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 10 | By nature I mean , first , the principle of survival which drives us to continue living and necessarily entails the ingestion of food ; and , second , the principle of growth which transforms us from childhood to maturity and thence to old age . |
| 11 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland concluded : ‘ Ageism leads to a perception of old age as an affliction or disease which turns us into a special kind of being which is not fully human . ’ |
| 12 | It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore-Tex bivvy-bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear . |
| 13 | It is that , more than the power of abstract reasoning , which elevates us above the kine and the denizens of the deep . |
| 14 | This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure . |
| 15 | When we plan a language syllabus we can draw on very comprehensive descriptions of the language which provide us with a basis for deciding what should go into the syllabus and in what order . |
| 16 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 17 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 18 | Then they also turned down our application to have Gay News in the library , which provided us with further ammunition and an unexpected new member . |
| 19 | It appeared to us then that the scheme which allows us to hand back a large proportion of the business rates was not widely known . ’ |
| 20 | It is the device which allows us to ‘ speak the truth in love ’ ; be judicious about how we answer others in order not to offend them . |
| 21 | As with IF , there is a law which allows us to " unnest " ALTs . |
| 22 | The effects of the adrenaline which prepared us for a fight or flight situation actually work against us when we can not do either . |
| 23 | I know there are terrible things out there , but that is n't an excuse for giving up on that which sustains us in this life . |
| 24 | In the particular instance we ordered a Grub Street title using the information given in the 1993 Directory of Book Publishers , which directed us to ‘ Chris Lloyd Sales and Marketing ’ . |
| 25 | The course content includes : exploring fantasy , sexual response , body image , and a look at some of the underlying feelings which prevent us from reaching our sexual potential . |
| 26 | It is our values and not our limited means which prevent us from recognizing that our society possesses adequate resources for the task in hand . |
| 27 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 28 | ‘ I managed to win a few line-out takes and the backrow picked up a bit of their possession which pleased us as a unit . |
| 29 | Death is the removal of all the possibilities which sustain us in our lives . |
| 30 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |