Example sentences of "[verb] to us the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I do not propose that we enter new markets at this stage , but rather that we seek strategic alliances with practices that offer professional services that we do not , and can bring to us the benefits of their expertise and client base on a reciprocal basis . |
| 2 | I myself had never witnessed a stoning , but Omar had done so on three occasions and had taken great delight in describing to us the fate that awaited weak women who did not carefully guard their honour which was so prized by their men . |
| 3 | In his attempts to understand the paths taken by projectiles and falling bodies , he had ‘ opened to us the gate of natural philosophy universal , which is the knowledge of the nature of motion ’ . |
| 4 | But these are some of the things , faith opens to us the door to every blessing that is ours in Christ . |
| 5 | Traditionally at least , horns convey to us the notion of the cuckold — the unfortunate , unmanly husband whose wife 's unsated sexual passion finds its outlets elsewhere . |
| 6 | We must be cautious , though , in making the assumption that such words as ‘ king ’ , ‘ prophet ’ or ‘ Messiah ’ still convey to us the meaning which they had at the time and in the world of Jesus . |
| 7 | Last year 's assembly remitted to us the task of working out the consequences for the service known as confirmation if children are admitted to the sacrament of the lord 's supper . |
| 8 | He accepts it only because of what he calls ‘ an insuperable logical difficulty ’ : position is not a quality , so a sensation can convey to us the position of a stimulus only by virtue of our ability to interpret something about it as meaning a certain position . |
| 9 | I believe that he has , in a single word , delivered to us the votes of the majority of general practitioners in the country , for which I am most grateful . |
| 10 | The chef , Master Worker Chang , is a caricature of a Chinese chef , very large and fat , who is very solicitous for our welfare , and comes in and explains to us the dishes in a sort of Chinese version of Hyman Kaplan 's English . |
| 11 | On the screen Derek Carlisle said , ‘ Our foreign affairs correspondent , Trevor Newsom , is now in the studio on Luctia , ready to explain to us the background to today 's decisions by the Council of the Galaxy . ’ |
| 12 | Once they come to us the packaging has disappeared and so we ca n't sell it . |
| 13 | His eyes are pinpoints , surely the smallest in any Modigliani portrait , as if to reveal to us the man 's utter lack of vision . |