Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Towards the end of his first letter to the Corinthians , Paul challenges the Corinthian Christians on the quality of their love , and in doing so has provided us with a bench-mark of quality as far as the practice of love is concerned . |
| 2 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 3 | Instead , I hope to show that Poulantzas relies , for the explanatory force of these claims , on our pre-theoretical , voluntarist understanding of them , and thus fails to provide us with examples of the holistic form of explanation he advocates . |
| 4 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 5 | On Saturday afternoon , our faithful guide and interpreter Comrade Wong , together with another comrade who mysteriously seems to accompany us on such occasions ( Comrade Sun ) took us by car to the Friendship Store which is an emporium for the exclusive use of ‘ foreign friends ’ . |
| 6 | The violence of this transition became more cushioned for me in the mid-seventies , when we built our bamboo and coconut-wood home in the highlands of Bali , which for seven years now has served us as a sort of decompression chamber between the two worlds . |