Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 2 | " We are strong , brave , clever — and the gods have blessed us with magical voices , too . " |
| 3 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
| 4 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |
| 5 | via satellite and telecommunication links , sophisticated means of communication for a vast range of purposes including the control of spacecraft , weather forecasting and news transmission , and has provided us with vast and easily accessible data banks . |
| 6 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 7 | That prick Davy Mulligan 's stiffed us with brown sugar … ’ |
| 8 | This has put us in good heart for Leicestershire . ’ |
| 9 | My mother had washed us , and dressed us in semi-sailor uniform . |
| 10 | Now the N S P C C has er warned us of possible Halloween danger and er David I I missed your name there David so you 'll have to remind me what your name is . |
| 11 | It is much more geared to the administration of personnel records than was the bureau system but the experience we gained using the bureau has stood us in good stead for our own system . |
| 12 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 13 | ‘ As we had maintained our large weighting in overseas equities and cash throughout the period of UK membership of the ERM , this cautious perception of the political and economic risks being run has stood us in good stead . ’ |
| 14 | Twice in the last half century they have plunged us into British wars and twice have they taken our finest youth from under our beds and from behind our hams . |
| 15 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 16 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 17 | The most likely scenario is that we will continue to see a surge of Ketamine experimentation fuelled by sensationalist media articles and the renewed enthusiasm for quasi-psychedelics prompted by Ecstasy that has overtaken us in recent years . |