Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] our [num ord] " in BNC.
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1 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
2 | Here the good sisters comforted us on our last journey with a manchet of bread and a cup of wine . |
3 | In Huarina the tarmac was abandoned for the dirt road that would take us through Achacachi , honouring us with our last good look at the Ancohuma massif before we rolled endlessly down to Sorata and the warm , wetting mists of Yungas . |
4 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
5 | This provides us with our next guideline . |
6 | This discussion of learning provides us with our next guideline : |
7 | This psychological finding provides us with our next cautionary guideline : |
8 | Dishes of dainty ‘ amuse gueule ’ teased us into our first course of whole baby Brittany lobster , seascented and sat upon a diminutive salad of oil-tossed green leaves — simple you might think — splendid simplicity in fact . |
9 | We can therefore anticipate — and this brings us to our second theme — that the answers we seek actually lie elsewhere than in a simple equation between creative and mad thought . |
10 | This brings us to our third ‘ ingredient ’ . |
11 | This brings us to our third point , that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups . |
12 | This brings us to our last category , the encyclopedias . |