Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] us with [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Scotland international coach Roxburgh admitted : ‘ The loss of Richard presents us with a real problem . |
| 2 | A particularly welcome aspect of the present disc is that Sarah Cunningham presents us with a survey spanning the entire period of the repertoire — as such it will perhaps be more welcome to the non-specialist than the Savall discs . |
| 3 | The Dennis case in the United States provides us with a hint as to how departures from constitutional principle may be explained . |
| 4 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 5 | ‘ It is also to be remarked , ’ wrote Wallace , ‘ that the great chain of active volcanoes in Sumatra and Java furnishes us with a sufficient cause for this subsidence , since the enormous masses of matter thrown out would take away the foundations of the surrounding district ; and this may be the true explanation of the often-noticed fact that volcanoes and volcanic chains are always near the sea . |
| 6 | Massey provides us with a fascinating and persuasive account of how capitalist production has used space . |
| 7 | Charles Dickens provides us with a vivid account of nineteenth-century urban poverty in such novels as Oliver Twist and Great Expectations . |
| 8 | Thus an account of housing development in North Shields provides us with a background to inter-war and immediate post-war developments in both owner-occupied and council housing , whereas Cramlington 's owner-occupied estates can be thought of as suburbanization produced by developer builders . |
| 9 | Dezallier-D'Argenville provides us with the answer : ‘ Among the common people it is customary to stay at home for two or three days after death , and to keep the body in a room where friends and relatives are invited to come and see it . ’ |
| 10 | Government comes to be seen as a matter of administration rather than rule and the ideologies of Machiavelli , Locke , Bentham , and Marx provide us with the modern cribs to politics ; a political training in default of a political education . |
| 11 | God help us with the economy , if he comes up with a crackpot idea like he did over these grading appeals . |
| 12 | For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ You 're remembering how , when all the other teenagers were driving their parents barmy with pop music , Fabia blasted us with the music of Smetana , Janáček and Dvořák morning , noon and night , ’ her father chipped in drily . |
| 15 | ‘ The Celebes presents us with the most striking example of the interest that attaches to the study of the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 16 | Carl greeted us with a soft-spoken voice . |
| 17 | It is only much later , in On Human Conduct ( 1975 ) , that Oakeshott provided us with a comprehensive account of his views on government and law . |
| 18 | We had our final assembly on the last day of term , there were four of us leaving and the headmaster who was called Mr Smith presented us with a book each . |
| 19 | Ruby greeted us with a brisk , ‘ Good morning . |