Example sentences of "[to-vb] us with [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some horses also like to tease us , to irritate us with trivial annoyances — and especially in front of an audience . |
| 2 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 3 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 4 | Maureen Ruchardson , who made a similar appearance in the B is for Book exhibition at the Shipley Art Gallery in Gateshead , continues to cook and beat the fibres of local plants to provide us with hand-made paper . |
| 5 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 6 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 7 | The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise . |
| 8 | We planned and performed our audit so as to obtain all the information and explanations which we considered necessary in order to provide us with sufficient evidence to give reasonable assurance that the accounts are free from material misstatement , whether caused by fraud or other irregularity or error . |
| 9 | And , of course , we hope that piloting centres will continue to provide us with vital feedback . |
| 10 | Stock markets fluctuate wildly , economists have difficulty forecasting performance or prescribing remedies ; the indicators and institutions that used to provide us with reliable and reassuring benchmarks no longer seem to be functioning properly . |
| 11 | We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year . |
| 12 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |
| 13 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 14 | Fucking Brinley 's a big fucking tart as far as I 'm concerned there are young man are you coming to discover us with young Sam ? |
| 15 | We are taking on Mr. McKeever from Crewe to help us with new waiting list initiatives in the Mersey region , and we are giving him £2 million to deal with some of the longer lists . |
| 16 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 17 | This year we are asking a selected sample of readers to help us with this process . |
| 18 | On the other hand it would make sense for nature to endow us with greater sexuality at a time when we are most likely to become pregnant . |
| 19 | Let's pray in the silence of our hearts that God will send the Holy Spirit to fill us with promised gifts . |
| 20 | So a stallion may respond to punishment from us by trying to kick us with greater determination instead . |
| 21 | A Tyneside girl disliked going for dinners to her grandmother because ‘ she used to threaten us with this monkey stick , hung behind the door . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Your sister 's been able to supply us with most of the details we need . ’ |
| 23 | And surely any dramatist ought to be able to move us with that final night of Holly 's life , when his musicians ( including Waylon Jennings ) gave their places on the ‘ plane to the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens . |
| 24 | You 're trying to blind us with all your scientific talk , so that we do n't see what you 're getting at , and leave you alone till it 's too late … ’ ‘ … you 're a wicked , evil man , like that other woman said , flying in the face of Nature and God … ’ ‘ … and what about Einstein ? |