Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision . |
| 2 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 3 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 4 | In Britain of the 1960s this challenge of the Welfare State is not isolated : it is but one aspect of the challenge which confronts us throughout the whole political field . |
| 5 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 6 | It is that , more than the power of abstract reasoning , which elevates us above the kine and the denizens of the deep . |
| 7 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
| 8 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 9 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 10 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 11 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 12 | It is this perspective which links us to the work of Goffman , Harre and Giddens . |
| 13 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 14 | There is an ‘ Essential ’ Chamber Music series with the peerless performances , and an ‘ Enterprise ’ collection which takes us into the worlds of Szymanowski , Berio , Ligeti , Schoenberg , Poulenc , Franz Schmidt , Stravinsky and others . |
| 15 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 16 | His first major novel since 1983 , a quest which takes us through the heart of European thought in search of the elusive doctor . |
| 17 | Here we report combined observations by the EISCAT radars and the DMSP-F10 satellite which tell us about the spatial and temporal behaviour of the cusp . |
| 18 | That is the dynamic , historical revelation of the Father 's love , which draws us into the community of faith and sets us to work in the service of the kingdom . |
| 19 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 20 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 21 | And in order to assess the wind speed , we had to climb up a perpendicular outside iron staircase , which took us onto the flat roof of Flying Control . |
| 22 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 23 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 24 | I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better-balanced mould than what preceded it . |
| 25 | There are sections on Islay in many of the piloting and sailing directions for Scotland , and specialist publications about the geology and the minerals , which were published in the 19th century , none of which tells us about the inhabitants . |
| 26 | There are sections on Islay in many of the piloting and sailing directions for Scotland , and specialist publications about the geology and the minerals , which were published in the 19th century , none of which tells us about the inhabitants . |
| 27 | Many things are told to the reader throughout the novel through conversation or through reading something such as the reading of the tombstone which tells us of the death of Pip 's parents . |
| 28 | The application of the verses to Jesus himself reminds us of the pattern of life of the Master . |
| 29 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 30 | Most of us are labouring under beliefs which limit our potential , or create personal trauma and suffering , or which deprive us of the magic and joy of being alive . |