Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public invisibility and the self-policing that are so central to lesbian and gay oppression place us in quite a different position , socially and economically , from each of these other groups . |
| 2 | For the first race the trainer friend advised us to back a horse called , I think , Super Duper . |
| 3 | A man on a donkey directed us to where the world began , pointing up a lane between two walls of durra . |
| 4 | What does the war against Iraq tell us about how the United States will exercise this unexpected freedom of action in the world ? |
| 5 | Our subject points towards wider horizons , offering a further dimension of perception and perspective , giving us at least the illusion that we transcend the confines of time . |
| 6 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 7 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 8 | ( 4 ) A reasoning question asks the pupils to explain something , e.g. " What does the picture tell us about how the Normans and Saxons fought ? " |
| 9 | In 1986 Neil Kinnock described the ERM as a ‘ strait-jacket ’ which ‘ would leave us with either a very unstable currency or very unstable interest rates ’ . |
| 10 | In the course of her book , she gives us by far the most detailed and interesting portrait of Mary ever written , free from the excesses of adulation or attack which characterize so much of the writing about her . |
| 11 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 12 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 13 | Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness . |
| 14 | It has much to tell us of how the local landscape has developed , and we can read the clues , if we know how to examine the building and its surroundings . |
| 15 | Second , it leaves us with absolutely no idea of how to get from patriarchal capitalist dystopia to socialist-feminist utopia . |
| 16 | Which brings us to perhaps the most phenomenal yearly stats I have ever had the pleasure of analysing . |