Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time . |
| 2 | It struck me as extraordinary that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) should attack us on that point . |
| 3 | You do n't believe for a minute that this government will stand by while the two biggest general unions get together , no way , they 'll attack us in any way they can and I warn ya they have n't run out of ideas yet . |
| 4 | The voyage of the good ship ‘ Ceilidh ’ in September provided us with many lessons in seamanship and Christian living . |
| 5 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 6 | ‘ Around 80 Subject Assessors visited us during that fortnight , and every module was looked at . |
| 7 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 8 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 9 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 10 | Worse , nothing in the data itself would alert us to this fact . |
| 11 | Widening our concept of special educational provision to include the ‘ whole curriculum ’ approach will free us from such limitations . |
| 12 | Your articles on women and workers make fascinating reading but provide us with little hope that a movement for change is likely to come from these quarters . |
| 13 | The apes provide us with much information concerning possible roots of sociable behaviour in man . |
| 14 | This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure . |
| 15 | Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |
| 18 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 19 | Alf 's grand-daughter , Ann Parker , still lives in Darlington and kindly helped us with these illustrations from her collection of footballing photographs , medals and newspaper cuttings . |
| 20 | Following toasts to the University , to Convocation and to our Guests , Mr Orme rounded off the evening by regaling us with some reminiscences of his early days in Parliament , where he has served for Salford West from 1964–1983 and Salford East since 1983 during which time he has held several posts in Government and on the Opposition front bench , and going on to more recent experiences whilst visiting Eastern Europe as the moves towards democracy gathered strength . |
| 21 | Unless it starts us down that road fairly quickly , the people of the north-east and the other regions will not want to follow . |
| 22 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 23 | My own daughter , God preserve us from such wickedness . ’ |
| 24 | My Dad ( who smoked ! ) caught us on that occasion and my punishment was being forced to smoke a whole cigarette ( which I did n't want ) in front of my friends who were called into the front room especially to witness the humiliation . |
| 25 | ‘ Awaken us from this nightmare , Huy . |
| 26 | It was agreed that the Secretary of the Party would ask the Party to inform us of any awards , plaques etcetera , that could be presented to recognize his length of membership . |
| 27 | The vendor of our current house also put us under some pressure to keep on her cleaner but , this time , we waited until the exchange of contracts to reject the idea . |
| 28 | and really always has been , erm , the idea of a centre is , is simply because you consider how much it costs to have a point wired when the house is , is built , er several people nowadays is ha well they buy an old house , they erm , say well we 'll take out the centre light and put us in some wall lights instead you see . |
| 29 | Let us at this point , though , not take anything away from Hick . |
| 30 | Let us by all means have a national core curriculum ; and let children be tested in the subjects that make up that curriculum . |