Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 2 | Fallon , also enjoying the most important success of his career , said : ‘ The stands ’ side led us for a furlong , but our side was in command after that . ’ |
| 3 | This call from the black side equips us with a challenge to put to the whites . |
| 4 | ‘ The portacabin provided us with a way to offer them the best possible service under the circumstances . ’ |
| 5 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 6 | After climbing to the top of the largest crater , the boat took us to a small bay on Palea Kameni where you can swim to the hot springs and delve into the orange mud of the sea bed , supposedly wonderful for your skin ! |
| 7 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 8 | The programme provides us with a quaint selection of Sons , Brides and other relations of Frankenstein , all based on some English lady 's knock-off of Rabbi Judah Loewe and the golem of Prague . |
| 9 | Jason hails from St Dodimeads Comprehensive School whose Under-14 side held us to a very creditable 0–0 draw two seasons ago in the County Knock-Out Shield . |
| 10 | David Goldsmith treats us to a bumper four-page collection , including matting , bindings , boots and bleepers |
| 11 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 12 | Despite these facts there may be a case for a short-term course of tablets , or the occasional use of a tablet to help us through a particularly difficult situation and to help build confidence . |
| 13 | A small boy guides us to a heap of stones . |
| 14 | ‘ The law leaves us in a very curious condition , ’ former consultant Alan Dixon told the Cox case jury . |
| 15 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 16 | The second point involves us in a difficulty . |
| 17 | The team served us with a final cocktail of emotions : happy , poignant and even philosophical . |
| 18 | Even the classical certainties of laboratory apparatus present us with a mystery when we recognise that we do not fully comprehend how they arise from the quantum substrate of which they are composed . |
| 19 | In the 12 chapters the author takes us from a basic introduction to the design of synthesis , through the various methodologies , to a few selected total syntheses . |
| 20 | Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument . |
| 21 | To assess such a claim requires that we make a giant leap of the imagination to transport us to a state of ignorance about even the most elementary principles of physics . |
| 22 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 23 | the ordering of the strata ( layers ) of sediment on an archaeological site provides us with a relative dating technique . |
| 24 | Her husband chased us in a jeep , and the oscillations of the basket told him what I was doing to his wife , and the poor man was jealous . ’ |
| 25 | Let me quote Professor Adolf Butenandt , Nobel prize-winning biologist : ‘ Even though modern biology provides us with a new outlook and a deeper insight into the nature of many living phenomena , it does not answer the question of what life itself is . ’ |
| 26 | Pragmatics provides us with a means of relating stretches of language to the physical , social , and psychological world in which they take place . |
| 27 | And are we to think that this loving God really wants us to linger on in pain and without dignity when , according to the same dogma , He is in any case calling us to a better life ? |
| 28 | Part of the inner route takes us through a narrow gap between a promontory of Fetlar called the Ness of Urie , and a small skerry which has a patch of grass on top . |
| 29 | The fact is that Orwell 's route takes us through a largely white part of England . |
| 30 | Conflict affects us in a variety of ways . |