Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 2 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 3 | Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image . |
| 4 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 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 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 7 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 8 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 9 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 10 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 11 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |
| 12 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 13 | No one of the theories we have set down is all wrong , any more than any one perspective is all right so providing us with a single key to " explain " British politics . |
| 14 | I commiserate with my hon. Friend on his misfortune this evening , in finding himself inadvertently supporting us in the Lobby . |
| 15 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 16 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 17 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 18 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 19 | The meaning is embodied in the rules of the game : to understand trumping and revoking one needs to ask , ‘ How do you use a trump-card , what do you do with it ? ’ psychological terms — like ‘ the trumping-feeling ’ and ‘ the revoking-feeling ’ — merely distract us from the thing that really matters . |
| 20 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 21 | While negotiations continued in Geneva , the Tories went to the polls declaring that ‘ collective security by collective action can alone save us from a return to the old system which resulted in the Great War . ’ |
| 22 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 23 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 24 | Camping holidays were always in the rain , but my parents would constantly remind us throughout the fortnight that the sun was ‘ trying to come out ’ . |
| 25 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 26 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 27 | Joyce confronts us with a piece of apparently inept , uncontextualized , childish language lacking normal " prosaic " logical transitions , and so shocks us into a re-experience ( rather than a reminiscence ) of the childhood consciousness from which the " young man 's portrait " will gradually evolve in his novel . |
| 28 | Although not profitable in the first year of acquisition , BMK with its complementary customer base and very different range of production equipment , will greatly strengthen us in the longer term . |
| 29 | Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker , impress us with the illusion of design and planning . |
| 30 | An absolute conception of poverty thus alerts us to the fact that health — for some or all of the family — will be bartered in the struggle to meet basic needs . |