Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 2 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 3 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 4 | Every day the Canyon humbles us with some new wonder : a 2,000ft sheer wall of red limestone , a golden eagle soaring down to the river to fish , a natural rock amphitheatre which would comfortably accommodate a full orchestra and 20,000 people . |
| 5 | We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction . |
| 6 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 7 | However , whilst the image of the ‘ head and tail ’ coin is pertinent to our understanding of the rituals , the rabbis ' words provide us with little more than an appreciation of how Jewish society ( or a part thereof ) at the time perceived and explained the religious state of affairs . |
| 8 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 9 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 10 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
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| 12 | This year we are asking a selected sample of readers to help us with this process . |
| 13 | Genius of Picasso to recall us to this , with his combinations of life-class drawing , cubism , collage , lettering , etc . |
| 14 | The clash between human and divine presents us with two spheres , each with right on its side , pointing forward to a reconciliation in line with the Aeschylean view of Fate enthroned above gods and men as eternal justice . |
| 15 | A mile 's drive south in the car took us to all that remains of Clare 's beloved heath land . |
| 16 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 17 | So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees . |
| 18 | Paper-thin circumstance separates us from other lives and alliances . |
| 19 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
| 20 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 21 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 22 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 23 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |
| 24 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 25 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
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| 27 | Instead of prayers to protect us from these sources of guilt , shame and terror Freud suggested that dreams took over , transforming the Gothic horrors into cryptic symbols only interpretable by psycho-analysts , the new priests of nineteenth century rationalism . |
| 28 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 29 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 30 | John Betjeman leaves us with this vignette : |