Example sentences of "[prep] us the [noun sg] of " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below us the forest of Dividal is visible . |
| 2 | But for the last fifty years or so for most of us the experience of the church has been declined and closer and reducing number of people with dog collars . |
| 3 | Looking back , it seems a marvel that the houses surrounding the Greencroft were never set on fire — the residents must have suffered very anxious hours , but for the rest of us the sight of so many fires all blazing away was one never forgotten . |
| 4 | To most of us the location of boundaries is self-evident but , surprisingly , boundaries of an object are far from obvious in the raw visual image which consists of a continuously varying distribution of light intensities across the retina . |
| 5 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
| 6 | Every step forward requires of us the abandonment of the past . |
| 7 | We are reborn in God , leaving behind us the continuity of our earthly and parental life . |
| 8 | We may secretly take pride in our traditions and truth , but we are deficient as long as others are left outside in the cold and unable to share with us the sacrament of the Lord . |
| 9 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |
| 10 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |
| 11 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 12 | He is indeed given us to actualise in us the character of Christ : but that process will not be complete until we see him as he is , either at death or the Parousia . |
| 13 | Er and I think perhaps teaching I do n't know whether it 's different today but they seemed to instil in us the love of , of poetry and the , the love of literature and that sort of thing . |
| 14 | Similarly , via the intermediary of reflected light rays , interaction between the corpuscles of gold and those of our eyes produces in us the idea of yellowness . |
| 15 | To reproduce in us the life of Jesus Christ . |
| 16 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 17 | In the final volume , Proust speaks of involuntary memory as being used in art , being used in such a way that , and I quote , ‘ this moment , freed from the bondage of time , recreates within us the sensation of a self freed from the bondage of time . ’ |
| 18 | You see , Christmas is linked with the season of Advent — the season of hope which sets before us the hope of his coming to restore all things and bring all things to a glorious conclusion . |
| 19 | However , many people have urged on us the importance of information programmes for improving people 's knowledge of credit choice and cost — including the Birmingham Money Advice Centre ( which sees it as particularly important for young people , and for social workers ) , the Finance Houses Association , the Consumer Credit Trade Association and the Institute of Trading Standards Administration . |
| 20 | In his attempts to understand the paths taken by projectiles and falling bodies , he had ‘ opened to us the gate of natural philosophy universal , which is the knowledge of the nature of motion ’ . |
| 21 | Traditionally at least , horns convey to us the notion of the cuckold — the unfortunate , unmanly husband whose wife 's unsated sexual passion finds its outlets elsewhere . |
| 22 | Open to us the door of your eyes . |
| 23 | He accepts it only because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ : position is not a quality , so a sensation can convey to us the position of a stimulus only by virtue of our ability to interpret something about it as meaning a certain position . |
| 24 | But I mean what the pay relative to us the cost of living and everything else , I do n't know . |
| 25 | God has a way on retreats such as this of bringing home to us the challenge of a first-order question : ‘ Do you love me in the way Mary loved me and allowed herself to be used for my mission ? ’ |
| 26 | To us the flood of romantic love should be searched for and found before marriage . |
| 27 | Last year 's assembly remitted to us the task of working out the consequences for the service known as confirmation if children are admitted to the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 28 | ‘ Among us the sin of schism is too often committed and too quickly condoned . ’ |
| 29 | As he puts it in The Problem of Method : ‘ For us the reality of the collective object rests on recurrence . |
| 30 | Counsel conjured up for us the picture of the accused person , after a gruelling day in court , returning to the cells to be met with the sight of an official of the Serious Fraud Office , armed with a further batch of questions , which he would be forced to answer on pain of being prosecuted for another offence . |