Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A rapid look at The Times newspaper for this Monday in April might give us just the slightest inkling of the minutiae of English life on a most ordinary of ordinary days : Dickens was completing David Copperfield ; Bass 's India Pale Ale could be had for 33s. per 18-gallon cask ; Hampshire Breakfast Bacon would cost you 7½d. by the half side , while Captain Reid 's ‘ Walls End ’ coal was 19s. a ton . |
| 2 | In the Theatral Area and the West Court , raised linear pathways of well-made slabs pass through open areas of irregular cobbling , and show us clearly the main lines of movement through these courtyards : they emphasize the North Entrance and West Porch of the temple as important destinations . |
| 3 | Then , both quickly and suddenly , he turned to the Reverend-who was now holding before him a photograph , of which he allowed us only the briefest glimpse . |
| 4 | Perry leads us up the unlit stairwell , the smell of urine sharp in our nostrils . |
| 5 | ‘ Tell us why the impetuous command ? |
| 6 | A gentle breeze helped nudge us up the first incline — then the next , and the next , before we reached a tricky scramble round a rocky peak . |
| 7 | So it 's normally thought that within the utilitarian tradition , voters are required to vote their interests and then the democratic procedure tells us where the general happiness lies roughly speaking . |
| 8 | ‘ Hi , can you tell us where the nearest gas station is ? ’ |
| 9 | The tonic accent normally falls on the last item , but this does not tell us where the given element ends and the new one begins . |
| 10 | Can you just tell us what you 've done to your entrance pricing for your various entertainment centres and also can you tell us why the Canadian profit 's almost doubled in the year ? |
| 11 | So even the inflationary model does not tell us why the initial configuration was not such as to produce something very different from what we observe . |
| 12 | When the Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State for the Environment replies to the debate , I hope that he will tell us how the British Government will apportion the 24 delegates from the United Kingdom who will represent us on that new body , the committee of regional and local authorities . |
| 13 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 14 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 15 | ‘ If the Scottish Secretary breaches the written undertaking he gave us then the next letter he should write is his resignation letter . ’ |
| 16 | He 's showing us where the first confronta-tion occurred . |
| 17 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
| 18 | The lifestyles in The Swimming Pool Library do not represent the entirety of the gay scene , but by locating the gay male scene so firmly within the traditional English class structure , Hollinghurst reminds us why the gay scene alone is not enough . |
| 19 | Diffuse X-ray diffraction , by contrast , gives us only the local arrangement about the average atom . |
| 20 | A London consortium took over Springfield Park last week , installed businessman Michael Morris on the board and issued specific instructions to Chief Executive Brian Hamilton : ‘ Get a few results and move us up the Second Division table . ’ |
| 21 | Unfortunately they leave us little the wiser about its essential nature . |
| 22 | First , how to persuade other member states not to insist on proposals which take us down the federal route and , second , how to avoid agreeing to wording which would be inconsistent with the wishes of the British parliament and electorate , while at the same time trying to reach an agreement . |
| 23 | Derek was telling us only the last time he was home all about his Mate up there on the Rigs . |
| 24 | I remember his telling us how the first time he encountered stress incontinence was as a young boy standing at the foot of the ladder while a little old country woman handed him down apples from the tree . |
| 25 | Unless you 've been calling my bluff since day one , you should be able to see off any mere mortal who rubs us up the wrong way . ’ |
| 26 | Although these are of critical importance , it is not particularly obvious how either a free market in broadcasting or ideological diversity in the media would make us any the wiser about Iran , Iraq or the Lebanon . |
| 27 | One was milking , and Peggy and I used very often be fetching the wood , we got tractor and trailer into the woods , and the old woodmen used to tell us where the dry wood was we could collect , take it down to the farm , circular saw in the shed , switch the electricity to go on . |