Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] us with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 2 | In accordance with Section 29 of the Companies Act 1982 we require you to provide us with the names and addresses of the partners in your business . |
| 3 | ‘ Ca n't you provide us with a new x ray machine , incubators , analysers , and an ultrasound machine ? |
| 4 | She presents us with a glistening floor bordered by a number of bells hanging from long ropes , each lit from above to produce its own pool of light . |
| 5 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 6 | I understand that it would be possible for you to supply us with the manuscripts by the end of August this year . |
| 7 | She greeted us with a cheerful smile , and whereas we had been anxious to avoid her for fear she should forbid us to bring our tree into the house , she astonished us by saying : " Hullo , dearies . |
| 8 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |
| 9 | The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast . |
| 10 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 12 | Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa . |
| 13 | In their ‘ rightness ’ they leave us with a profound sense of ‘ wrongness ’ which many of us store to considerable effect , decades later . |
| 14 | He ruled us with an iron hand and , while he was a very fair man , woe betide any officer who crossed him . |
| 15 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 16 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 17 | 2 He provided us with a new theory as to the essential reality of governing , in the period of classical parliamentary government , in the period when members of the Commons enjoyed a golden age of independence between the fall of patronage and the rise of highly organised political parties . |
| 18 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 19 | It fills us with a deep warmth that will last past midnight . |
| 20 | Fortunately , the landlord had n't seen our arrival and he served us with a smile and an offer of menus . |
| 21 | ‘ My father ruled us with an iron fist and he hit us with an iron fist too , ’ Joe recalls . |
| 22 | This keeps us in our place , although it frustrates us with a great deal of suffering . |
| 23 | , whose organisation distributes many of our export products , highlighted opportunities facing the Company when he presented us with a commemorative certificate to mark the Chilton opening and to celebrate over 15 years of close co-operation . |
| 24 | I gave his wife some mulberries last autumn and I know he trusts us with the petrol allowance and anyway this beastly rationing should be over soon , so I know I should n't complain when some people have had it much worse up in town . |
| 25 | It provides us with a world-view — a philosophy to live by . |
| 26 | At best it provides us with a partial and intensely partisan perspective because it is keenly committed to the view from the top — to the view of those who are more in control than controlled , and who are , therefore , centrally concerned to secure political stability and sustain a particular pattern of economic relations based on the economic order of capitalism and the free market . |
| 27 | It provides us with a map ; it tells us where we are and who we are . |
| 28 | The answer is that it provides us with a way to understand evolution as a gradual , cumulative process . |
| 29 | Mr President I move this special report on behalf of the C E C on the basis that it provides us with the framework to build on the excellent record that the G M B has on improving health , safety and environmental standards at the workplace . |
| 30 | The numbers attending are still disappointing but I believe that it is fully justified if for no other reason than that it provides us with the best — and most cost effective — corporate publicity we are likely to obtain . |