Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 2 | You are required by law to provide us with the following information : — |
| 3 | If you are currently unable to provide us with the relevant information , please indicate by which date this would be possible . |
| 4 | Wrangham 's work goes far to provide us with the essential spatial structuring that underlies this flexibility . |
| 5 | Such an exhibition , and its permanent record in the lavishly illustrated new book edited by Wendy Roworth , should alert us to the rich possibilities offered by serious reassessment of the work of such a varied , complex and intellectual artist as Angelica Kauffman . |
| 6 | Government comes to be seen as a matter of administration rather than rule and the ideologies of Machiavelli , Locke , Bentham , and Marx provide us with the modern cribs to politics ; a political training in default of a political education . |
| 7 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 8 | Goals and values plus energy provide us with the vital information on motivation to perform and it is these variables which provide the best data on how an individual is likely to perform . |
| 9 | Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals . |
| 10 | Legislation helped us with the medical practice booklets . |
| 11 | May they preserve us from the hermetic seal . |
| 12 | There were many amusing things that happened on the way out , to distract us from the utter boredom of slogging through the Med and down the Red Sea . |
| 13 | I would simply suggest that we should not allow either sentimentality or a genuine concern for retaining decentralized powers in general to distract us from the major , and separate , task of attempting to determine a common policy for all education at all stages in the future . |
| 14 | As a general approach , this presents a very attractive picture of human beings , but we must not , on the other hand , allow this to distract us from the pressing reality of society as an institutionalised , patterned , constraining system . |
| 15 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 16 | They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise . |
| 17 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 18 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 19 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 20 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 21 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 22 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
| 23 | Meditation can bring us into the immediate presence of God . |
| 24 | Even so , these cautionary comments should not dislodge us from the main point . |
| 25 | Each of these ultra-familiar tunes came up sounding fresh and surprising , and the entire set consistently delighted us with the unexpected . |
| 26 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 27 | May we allow Him to lead us into the unknown , may we draw our courage from Him and may we place our trust in His loving kindness . |
| 28 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 29 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 30 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |