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 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 6 | The hound wakes , growls , shakes itself , and with a show of haste begins to pull us towards the four corners of the great morning . |
| 7 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Legislation helped us with the medical practice booklets . |
| 15 | This trap is the Devil 's second snare and is the one he sets if he fails to catch us with the first one . |
| 16 | May they preserve us from the hermetic seal . |
| 17 | He did n't catch us until the last peak , Creag nan Damh , where a number of ridge-walkers were gathered , basking in the delight of the afternoon and resting on their laurels after a mammoth expedition . |
| 18 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 23 | They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . |
| 25 | And you 'll be pleased to know that Frank Dobson has agreed to meet us on the fourteenth of June and we will make sure , to the best of our effort , that that policy will be endorsed . |
| 26 | Our footsteps echoed as though there were other people walking to meet us from the far end . |
| 27 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 28 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 29 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 30 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |