Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 3 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 4 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 5 | The ongoing commitment can only hold us in good stead in the eyes of our established and potential clients as a company of recognised capability . |
| 6 | The panel contains a cantharus which is comparable to that in the central roundel of mosaic B , North Hill.7 In the latter , the base and lower body of the cantharus do not survive , so depriving us of valuable comparative evidence . |
| 7 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 8 | The self-authenticating nature of their experiences meant that neither of them was able to doubt them , yet the similarities must not blind us to certain differences . |
| 9 | Surprise ( in the sense studied in Baillargeon 's experiment — passive capture of visual attention ) is not an action so it can not tell us about central system function . |
| 10 | ‘ We must say to the public , ‘ you can not leave us without moral guidance on this . |
| 11 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 12 | The fact that such technology has already had a major impact upon the leisure industry should not fill us with wild joy . |
| 13 | Please candidates , do not deafen us with meaningless statistics about global sums and ‘ improvements in real terms ’ — they are political jargon for covering up the truth . |
| 14 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |
| 15 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 16 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |
| 17 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 18 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |
| 19 | The power of the media to psychologically influence us in other ways is not in doubt . |
| 20 | Our thesis is that our traditional models and ways of thinking do not allow us to understand complex processes and — which is worse : often mislead us about appropriate responses . |
| 21 | Only Germany , Holland , Japan and Switzerland can now match us for economic growth , price stability and strong balance of payments , says Dr David Lomax , the Natwest 's economic adviser . |
| 22 | And Deane Beman ( the US Tour commissioner ) does n't want us to cherry-pick on their tour . ’ |
| 23 | For once , you ca n't accuse us of self-promoting hyperbole when we described the show as ‘ the mightiest concert ever ! ’ |
| 24 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 25 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 26 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 27 | If you do n't tell us about relevant changes , your policy may not be valid or the policy may not cover you fully . |
| 28 | They do n't feed us at med school . ’ |
| 29 | Thus the name ‘ man ’ is simply a name used for a number of particulars , and any idea of ‘ man ’ is always an idea of some particular man , and simply reminds us of other particulars . |
| 30 | did n't even last us into New |