Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb base] us [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus .
2 Jesus ' sufferings draw us into the love of God and show us how much he loved us .
3 A mule clattered past , its straw panniers thrust us against the adobe wall .
4 These songs remind us of the deeds and of the character of God , as does the psalmist who sings :
5 Since this is , in effect , as much an oblique comment on the present as a literal interpretation of the past , what such accounts tell us about the quality of village life in the past must be handled with considerable scepticism .
6 The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music .
7 These studies tell us about the broad pattern of movement between school and work .
8 If these variations remind us of the history of the Alps , then so much the better : we may find a better balance to the continuing battle between development and conservation .
9 These questions take us to the very heart not only of recent theological debate about Barth , but of the inner problematic of the entire development of modern theology as we are tracing it .
10 These questions take us beyond the scope of this chapter , but they are raised again in Chapter 6 .
11 But there are also extensive external networks ( formal and informal ; electronic , written and oral ) to which we have links , and which in various ways bind us to the rest of the actors in the firm .
12 At least the days of Friday night being the night the neighbours report us to the NSPCC for malicious blinding of offspring with intent are over .
13 These type of thoughts put us in the mood to feel anxiety .
14 These factors take us beyond the study of language , in a narrow sense , and force us to look at other areas of inquiry — the mind , the body , society , the physical world — in fact , at everything .
15 We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ .
16 What then do these culture experiments using denatured single collagens or collagen sandwiches tell us of the nature of hepatocyte-matrix interaction ?
17 The drums lead us through the warren of narrow alleys to a courtyard whose entrance is blocked by a knot of people .
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