Example sentences of "[vb -s] [verb] us in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 2 | If we make sure of the right answer to these questions we will develop the full , clear picture of God that he himself has given us in his revelation . |
| 3 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 4 | He depicted the life of enslaved mine workers in dark colours , and was altogether sensitive to the suffering of the humble ( as Professor Strasburger has reminded us in Journ . |
| 5 | Got ta find this two and a half percent that has dropped us in it ! |
| 6 | In 1348 the king restored the Earl of Lancaster 's title to the Honour and castle of Pontefract , which he had hitherto held on lease from the queen , ‘ having regard to the good service and great honour which our … cousin has done us in Gascony ’ . |
| 7 | The consequences of our choice are serious , because God has made us in his image and likeness . |
| 8 | ‘ The City is certainly more inclined to look kindly on the film trade than before , and thus a considerable weight that has handicapped us in the past is removed ’ , remarked John Maxwell , as he launched British International Pictures ( BIP ) as a public company with interests in production , exhibition and distribution . |
| 9 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 10 | Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices . |
| 11 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 12 | It has put us in the position of villains , whereas the Secretary of State is the villain because he will not pay . |
| 13 | This has put us in good heart for Leicestershire . ’ |
| 14 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 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 . |
| 18 | If the Government keeps telling us in every statement they make that we 're an integral part of the . |
| 19 | While the hon. Gentleman 's speech was interesting if idiosyncratic , he appears to join us in condemning the employment policies of the Labour party . |
| 20 | ‘ Yet she made it known to Brother Tutilo , ’ retorted Herluin , burning up in his turn , ‘ that she has felt compassion towards afflicted Ramsey , and wishes to benefit us in our distress . |
| 21 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 22 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 23 | It is when we make an attempt to clarify it that the confidence begins to desert us in the face of difficulties . |
| 24 | My conviction is that as we take action , and show that we mean business , we will find that it is at that point precisely that the Holy Spirit comes to help us in our weakness and change everything from a mechanical discipline to an encounter with the living God . |
| 25 | You do realise he 's locked us in , can we break into the bar |
| 26 | And that 's left us in some er , difficulties frankly , because one of the things that er , the C E C was recommending , that work of a strategic nature , which at the moment is undertaken by industrial conferences should be moved over to be dealt with by section conferences and that meant that a number of industrial conferences need not meet any longer , so we would avoid the duplication , the overlap and the waste . |
| 27 | ‘ It 's put us in a fix . ’ |