Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We await the Light of the World with this powerful symbol underlining for us the real nature of Advent : a time of expectation ‘ as we wait in joyful hope for the coming of our Saviour Jesus Christ ’ . |
| 2 | Through the horse , we have emphasized for us the animalistic and instinctive nature of the male ( or human ? ) sexual appetite . |
| 3 | Although writing here with a different purpose from our own — and exclusively from a psychodynamic perspective — Anthony nevertheless articulates for us the final theme that remains to be developed in this chapter , which concerns the formal similarities between the mechanisms of mad and creative thought . |
| 4 | Please confirm that the foregoing is in accordance with your understanding by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter . |
| 5 | This will be achieved by including in the offer letter a clause similar to that set out below : Please confirm your acceptance of the above offer by signing and returning to us the enclosed copy of this letter within the next seven days . |
| 6 | Science explains what is happening around us the whole time . |
| 7 | We do n't have to get to a certain stage of sinlessness , before God will give to us the Holy Spirit . |
| 8 | They reveal to us the astonishing cultural achievements and spirit of our ancestors ; they also document the power struggles , intrigues and invasions that have shaped English history . |
| 9 | In cases where we require the client to confirm in writing certain representations made to us the following letter may be used . |
| 10 | Who would like to have a go at describing for us the General Assembly of the United Nations ? |
| 11 | She left a series of notes in my pigeonhole that started off plaintively : ‘ I 'm very confused by what happened between us the other night . |
| 12 | ‘ What happened between us the other day , after our picnic — ’ his deep voice was suddenly slow and compelling as he steered the boat slowly towards the busy quay at Kalkara ‘ — that seemed … special . |
| 13 | Once we attain the transcendental standpoint , we have ceased to carry with us the substantive concept of truth required to raise epistemological questions . |
| 14 | In my view , the time has come to leave behind us the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM . |
| 15 | It is a call to us , too , to leave behind us the false self of our own independence , to celebrate how wholly dependent we are upon God . |
| 16 | Because the object of contemplation is God himself , who opens to us the infinite possibilities of himself and of our own lives . |
| 17 | Like an enthusiastic guide in a foreign country , he is anxious to share with us the unexpected treasures he has found and which we might , without his help , have missed . |
| 18 | Almost immediately he began to share with us the intense enthusiasm of his Christian faith . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Along the way Brian talked to us the whole time , not in a loud voice or a whisper , but in a low confident tone , the kind every good falconer adopts when he 's in the presence of birds of prey . |
| 21 | Erm the then the seems to us the final er difference between ourselves and the er county council , is the issue of migration and what 's already been referred to as environmental discounts . |
| 22 | Lawrence does not neglect sound effects in impressing on us the harsh sensory qualities of the industrial scene . |
| 23 | There is only what from our side is neither predictable nor controllable — the coming of the Word from beyond which opens and displays to us the overwhelming advent of God as he makes himself known in the ‘ eternal moment ’ . |
| 24 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |
| 25 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
| 26 | He can not only bring to our remembrance what Jesus taught , but can reveal to us the deeper significance of his person , his death and resurrection which we could never have grasped by historical contemporaneity . |
| 27 | Mr. Sumption , counsel for the third , fourth and fifth defendants , has renewed before us the same arguments as he addressed to Sir Nicolas Browne-Wilkinson V.-C . |
| 28 | The morally estimable act of exposing to us the worst in ourselves nearly always has something morally equivocal about it . |
| 29 | He said to us the other day , ‘ This little country is the key . |
| 30 | Whoever killed Father Reynard shot at us the previous evening . |