Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am grateful to the hon. Member for Bolsover ( Mr. Skinner ) for reminding us of that in the last speech from the Opposition Back Benches . |
| 2 | ‘ They must have a hell of a reason for wanting us on that boat . ’ |
| 3 | But if romanticism suits the Devil because it has a habit of slipping us into unreality-away from the real battle — it has an even more pernicious aspect . |
| 4 | Signs of this were evident at Christmas and , happily , at Easter , too , Not only did Channel 4 go out in peak time with Granada 's king Lear on Easter Monday but also had the bright idea of showing us on that day , in Are you having any fun ? archive material demonstrating how the British had determinedly convinced themselves they were enjoying themselves as long ago as 1896 and as lately as 1964 . |
| 5 | So thank you very much indeed , for coming , for addressing us , and we look forward I think both at national level and as you suggest , at local level with ever more valuable and productive relationships with the private sector , together with the other partners which , er , whom we need , and thank you for leading us along this |
| 6 | Partners and staff are well known in the City , w providers of due diligence work with the major capitalists , with the bankers er with with the merchant bankers and so on and of course our plans for providing us with due diligence work . |
| 7 | I am grateful , as is the House , to my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) for providing us with this opportunity to consider education for adults in Croydon . |
| 8 | ‘ How about joining us at Green Park tomorrow ? ’ |
| 9 | And God 's word is used in bringing us to new birth , in bringing us , er to faith in Jesus Christ . |
| 10 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 11 | But why does this event persist in subjecting us to long rows of tap dancers , a breed of people whose only function in life is to display the disgusting effects of sweat and sequins under neon ? |
| 12 | ‘ Apart from providing us with key data about the tangible net worth , pre-tax profitability and borrowings of each account , we have shared the CreditScan information with our sales and marketing colleagues . |
| 13 | Far from awaiting us in some dazzling future , as some might hope , the golden age of individual psychoanalytic therapy is probably already behind us . |
| 14 | We are asking SEAC to take these into account in advising us in due course on the Orders specifying assessment arrangements covering English . |
| 15 | I thank the hon. Member for Londonderry , East ( Mr. Ross ) for taking us in some detail through the problems that he and many experts see in dealing with toxic and hazardous waste . |
| 16 | Moreover , it allows us to talk more confidently of a psychic and cognitive unity of humanity without limiting us to absolute categories . |
| 17 | It is all geared to forcing us into zero sum games . |
| 18 | ‘ Revenge ’ is well on the way to taking us to that point where we want to be , ’ explained the one-time axe-wielding , fire-breathing bassman . |
| 19 | WHILE the leaders of all three main political parties seem intent on dragging us into closer union with Europe , there must be millions like me who fought in World War Two to stop Germany dominating the Continent . |
| 20 | … In a court it would be so easy if I was on the other side to get up and say that in respect of eight of the conditions ‘ We complied and we only contravened the suspended solids condition and we 're very sorry it was 30,000 p.p.m. but you 're not gon na cane us for that are you , Mr Magistrate ? |
| 21 | So we set the scene , we look good , we have n't crushed them to death and he 's gon na take us into one or two areas |
| 22 | People were already tending to ignore these very works we 're looking at , theomonoism we 'll be looking at next week , gon na tell us about that , are n't you . |
| 23 | Some pictures , Victorian engravings for instance , may be more useful for telling us about Victorian tastes , fashions , and expectations than for the scenes they portray . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Please help us to give by providing us with this work . |
| 26 | Robertson begins by taking us through this golden age , dedicating the story to Joe Pawsey , to whose wise and expert leadership the Radiophysics Laboratory owed much of its early success . |
| 27 | We need you to continue to help us by telling us of potential hazards you see in the community . |
| 28 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |