Example sentences of "[is] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |
2 | In that fascinating passage in Romans 8:9–11 Paul recognises ‘ the Spirit of God ’ from Old Testament days to be none other than ‘ the Spirit of Christ ’ , the Spirit who indwelt Christ and who is given us from Christ . |
3 | Erm so he 's keeping us in limbo really |
4 | In the immediate context of The Possessed Kirillov delights even while he is dismaying us by pushing theory — the novel 's Paper Person motif , that is — to the very limit , the born gambler 's limit . |
5 | It is as if an invisible force field is keeping us at arms length . |
6 | The job of perceptual systems is to provide us with representations of what is happening in the outside world , representations based on information gathered from receptors based in different parts of the body that are tuned to specific classes of physical events . |
7 | The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order . |
8 | Oh , Jesus , she 's driving us up the wall . |
9 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
10 | And if the State denies us that right of individual choice then , although it might shower us with gifts , it is robbing us of our deepest , profoundest freedom , that upon which all other freedoms depend , and so the State , any State , which denies God 's ultimate gift must be opposed . ’ |
11 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |
12 | I know what I Know what it 's cost us for that weekend . |
13 | She 's meeting us for lunch , by the way . ’ |
14 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
15 | Something else I 'd just like to , I was actually I was erm aware that time is passing us by . |
16 | ‘ Gillian 's uncle is fetching us in his car , Brown Owl , ’ replied Carol . |
17 | We have excellent food — almost twice as much as we can eat is offered us at every meal — and we have well heated rooms , which is indeed a blessing , when you compare the virtual absence of heating at the Peking Languages Institute where we work . |
18 | James laughed , ‘ Look at them , Angus , look at the people , they are rampant now , this is better than ‘ Forty-five , nobody is dying , no royal fop is leading us into the bog . |
19 | Our very success is leading us into a dangerous future … |
20 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
21 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
22 | I regret I am not likely to lose weight in China , as their habit , at least in Peking , is to give us at least twice as much food as we need , and however much we gently suggest that three platefuls rather than six would be sufficient , they still go on just the same . |
23 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
24 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
25 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
26 | For their side-effect is to confuse us about what is truly possible . |
27 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
28 | However , as we remarked in Chapter 1 , to identify pragmatics wholly with the truth-conditional apparatus that will handle indexicals is to leave us with no term for all those aspects of natural language significance that are not in any way amenable to truth-conditional analysis . |
29 | " Mr. Ingard is expecting us at nine-thirty in the morning , " he said as we got up to go . |
30 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |