Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] us with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Every day the Canyon humbles us with some new wonder : a 2,000ft sheer wall of red limestone , a golden eagle soaring down to the river to fish , a natural rock amphitheatre which would comfortably accommodate a full orchestra and 20,000 people . |
| 2 | Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem . |
| 3 | A particularly welcome aspect of the present disc is that Sarah Cunningham presents us with a survey spanning the entire period of the repertoire — as such it will perhaps be more welcome to the non-specialist than the Savall discs . |
| 4 | The Dennis case in the United States provides us with a hint as to how departures from constitutional principle may be explained . |
| 5 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 6 | John Betjeman leaves us with this vignette : |
| 7 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |
| 8 | During the Rugby World Cup , ITV provided us with up-beat , detailed match coverage . |
| 9 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 10 | We sat on a sofa beneath the doleful gaze of these trophies while Hasan plied us with drinks and an array of Egyptian delicacies which he brought simmering from the kitchen . |
| 11 | Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority . |
| 12 | On request , the East Midlands Region Office of the NCC supplied us with permits to visit . |
| 13 | Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space . |
| 14 | Charles Dickens provides us with a vivid account of nineteenth-century urban poverty in such novels as Oliver Twist and Great Expectations . |
| 15 | Thus an account of housing development in North Shields provides us with a background to inter-war and immediate post-war developments in both owner-occupied and council housing , whereas Cramlington 's owner-occupied estates can be thought of as suburbanization produced by developer builders . |
| 16 | Abu piloted us with all the aplomb of a sailor surging through dangerous surf , and finally brought us to an entire circular village of some sixty three-storey houses , all shaped like space-arcs . |
| 17 | Dezallier-D'Argenville provides us with the answer : ‘ Among the common people it is customary to stay at home for two or three days after death , and to keep the body in a room where friends and relatives are invited to come and see it . ’ |
| 18 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 19 | Government comes to be seen as a matter of administration rather than rule and the ideologies of Machiavelli , Locke , Bentham , and Marx provide us with the modern cribs to politics ; a political training in default of a political education . |
| 20 | And you and I , perhaps , we can look back to a day in our life when it was our birthday , as far as that is concerned and God filled us with his Holy Spirit , we received the gift of the Holy Spirit , we were baptized in the Holy Spirit . |
| 21 | A moment later , Dr Livesey , Gray , and Ben Gunn joined us with smoking guns , from among the trees . |
| 22 | To begin to call out to God to fill us with his Spirit that we might know him better is what is needed . |
| 23 | God help us with the economy , if he comes up with a crackpot idea like he did over these grading appeals . |
| 24 | Australia blinded us with torrential rain and howling gales and somehow two commercials were shot under sizzling arc-lamps , and wildly flapping plastic sheeting . |
| 25 | For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller . |
| 26 | The voyage of the good ship ‘ Ceilidh ’ in September provided us with many lessons in seamanship and Christian living . |
| 27 | We worked very hard while Pippin and PJ watched us with interest from the comfort of the sofa . |
| 28 | Ladislav toasts us with nadraži and laughs . |
| 29 | As well as giving us data for the industry , the LFS provided us with information about the narrow ( KOS ) occupational group of waiters and bar staff in which casuals are concentrated . |
| 30 | Finally , as if rewarding us for our efforts , Yuri provided us with what was for us the highlight of the day — an impromptu performance ( to a disco beat ) which left us in no doubt at all as to why this tall , handsome athlete is Russia 's leading ballet super-Tsar ! |