Example sentences of "[noun pl] have [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Simple pressure of calls has taken us from one to five lines over the years and the only reason we have stuck at five is because the office is simply too small to take any more . |
| 2 | Anger that for so long manufacturers have kept us in the dark and industry ’ experts ’ continue to make vital decisions on our behalf . |
| 3 | Steady progress over the last four decades has brought us to a point where much of what happens in primary education is a source of pride . |
| 4 | Likewise in archaeology AMS has enabled us to date samples as minute as individual seeds , which can tell us a great deal about the origins of agriculture and the domestication of cereals . |
| 5 | The one that for the past five years has brought us into crisis , anarchy , and economic decay ? " |
| 6 | " We are strong , brave , clever — and the gods have blessed us with magical voices , too . " |
| 7 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |
| 8 | Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold . |
| 9 | The Americans have left us with very few stories to tell . |
| 10 | Slow delivery times and the absence of hotlines have left us with no option but to turn to wholesalers from late November onwards . ’ |
| 11 | Men have provided us with a false picture of the world … not just because their view is so limited , but because they have insisted that their limited view is the total view . |
| 12 | In recent months several TH contributors have treated us to a wealth of extremely useful information , advice and tips on how to achieve success with a detector when searching the country 's transport routes . |
| 13 | The dots have brought us to the bottom of a page — an appropriate point , since we have also , surely , reached the nadir of these proceedings , perhaps of all proceedings in the whole history of the modern Civil Service . |
| 14 | Coun Bob Brady , the council 's housing committee chairman , said : ‘ Financial restrictions have prevented us from building council houses for some time . |
| 15 | The kidnappers have given us until October the eleventh to deliver the document and I have n't despaired of finding it before then . |
| 16 | Unfortunately , limitations in traditional methods of studying roots have prevented us from thoroughly understanding the dynamic nature of fine root mortality in most forests , and better measurements of fine root longevity are needed to quantify and model more accurately ecosystem carbon and nutrient budgets . |