Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] us [prep] " 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 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 3 | Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 6 | The Dennis case in the United States provides us with a hint as to how departures from constitutional principle may be explained . |
| 7 | Yet Weyl points us to ‘ the underlying generality ’ . |
| 8 | Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress . |
| 9 | Philip Vann enlightens us to artist concentrating on work in stained glass . |
| 10 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 11 | Hugh chides us for selling at what he regards as low prices , but he forgets that our hobby not our source of income ; it is a way of relaxing during evenings and weekends when the serious business of earning a living is over . |
| 12 | Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen . |
| 13 | Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium . |
| 14 | You can certainly do group suggestive therapy and here we touch on another point that erm Joy reminds us of and Freud makes quite a bit on the book the parallel between being in a group and being hypnotized , because the , the , the role of the hypnotist is to take over completely |
| 15 | John Betjeman leaves us with this vignette : |
| 16 | When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton . |
| 17 | The association of sex and musical imagery reaches a splendid climax in this tale as Alison and Nicholas enjoy " " revel " " and " " melodye " " in bed to a devout musical accompaniment as : The use of animal imagery to describe Alison prepares us for her response to Nicholas 's first assault : while the images of the trave , a frame for holding a horse to be shod , and of the final night of the tale " " derk … as the cole " " , prepare us for the brief scene at Gerveys the blacksmith 's forge ( 3760 – 85 ) . |
| 18 | And this would be the point from which to look back at Olson , as Catherine Seelye wants us to , and to regard The Maximus Poems as embodying ‘ the way of confusio ’ . |
| 19 | Language may not only be ill-adapted to communication ( as Professor Chomsky shows us in chapter 3 ) , it 's also in principle , and quite often in practice , unnecessary . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . |
| 21 | We can now observe twentieth century features of Hebridean kitchen gardens and can recognise a profusion of plants which occur , then sense the continuity of custom as Martin Martin informs us of the uses he observed almost three centuries ago . |
| 22 | The Angelfish Paul Donovan reminds us of the enduringly popular Angelfish , |
| 23 | Duncan reminds us of the antiquity of the propensity to quantify the doings of people in various ways . |
| 24 | Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space . |
| 25 | Charles Dickens provides us with a vivid account of nineteenth-century urban poverty in such novels as Oliver Twist and Great Expectations . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In turn , Jesus points us to the mystery of the Trinity , where each divine person is mutually self-giving , depending on each other and yet holding their distinct identity . |
| 28 | The Clio reaches us in perfect condition , excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims . |
| 29 | It 's the first thing we see ; it is , if you like , the moment at which Dr Starkie introduces us to Flaubert . |
| 30 | But perhaps the most striking example of the sombre side of suffering in obedience to God which the Spirit of Jesus calls us to Is provided by Paul in the Corinthian correspondence Kasemann has perceptively observed , in Jesus Means Freedom that this church at Corinth was infatuated with a theology of the Spirit whilst allergic to a theology of the cross . |