Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 2 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 3 | This accursed recession has blinded us to the fact that we are well placed , vis-a-vis our competitors in Europe , to create wealth . |
| 4 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 5 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 6 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 7 | It is your enthusiasm , dedication and sheer hard work which has placed us at the forefront of our industry . |
| 8 | He care for the whole of mankind and has given us in the Bible a guide-book by which to live . |
| 9 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 10 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 11 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 12 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 13 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 14 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 15 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 16 | The morning shift meet us in the office . |
| 17 | ‘ 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
| 20 | Mr. Wilson : As the Minister reiterates his enthusiasm for bids that give workers a substantial say , does he consider that there is any conflict between that and what he has told us about the SDA investing £500,000 to ensure that such bids do not succeed ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 23 | We did not really listen , but it helped to put us in the right mood . |
| 24 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 25 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 26 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 27 | First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds . |
| 28 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 29 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 30 | Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices . |