Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb -s] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Stewart joins us on the line now good morning Mr . |
| 2 | Kim meets us at the door wearing a shimmering dress . |
| 3 | Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 . |
| 4 | Instead , Mauriac tells us about the books he 's read , the painters he 's liked , the plays he 's seen . |
| 5 | When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton . |
| 6 | We can now observe twentieth century features of Hebridean kitchen gardens and can recognise a profusion of plants which occur , then sense the continuity of custom as Martin Martin informs us of the uses he observed almost three centuries ago . |
| 7 | The Angelfish Paul Donovan reminds us of the enduringly popular Angelfish , |
| 8 | Duncan reminds us of the antiquity of the propensity to quantify the doings of people in various ways . |
| 9 | In turn , Jesus points us to the mystery of the Trinity , where each divine person is mutually self-giving , depending on each other and yet holding their distinct identity . |
| 10 | As we 're leaving for our long drive home , Ali walks us to the car and closes our doors . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | Mr Moore bounces us up the stairs , throwing open the door of a small room painted buttermilk yellow in the converted stable . |
| 13 | Third , God guides us through the Scriptures . |
| 14 | When Marx tells us in the Communist Manifesto that ‘ all history is the history of class struggles ’ , he is claiming that all conflict and change in societies can ultimately be traced back to the underlying class conflict , based on the opposing class interests arising from exploitation . |
| 15 | In her insistence on the range of masculinities in practice , and her argument that masculinity is structured through contradiction , Segal reminds us of the very real shifts achieved by feminists in setting a new agenda for women and men . |
| 16 | Boswell brings us to the very bones — literally — of their excursion to the churchyard behind the stable-block . |
| 17 | After tea , her brother Lawrence shows us round the house . |
| 18 | In this issue , Ruby Johnston tells us of the experience of a group of nurses in Ireland who have had to adapt to the challenge of this new way of working with communities . |
| 19 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |
| 20 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 21 | And as the aim of a writer is to take the reader with him , we can learn from the way Blake leads us along the path he is taking . |
| 22 | With an agreeable mixture of personal and scientific detail , Robertson tells us about the early Australian work on radio emission from the Sun , the planets and the mysterious radio ‘ stars ’ ( point sources ) and explains how the 21-cm line from interstellar hydrogen was used to map the spiral arms of our Galaxy ; he also describes the development of the solar radio spectrograph by Paul Wild and of the high resolution ‘ cross ’ antennae by Bernard Mills and Wilbur Christiansen . |
| 23 | Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO . |
| 24 | Olivia Durdin-Robertson meets us at the porch , under the protective wing of Horus . |
| 25 | ‘ The Celebes presents us with the most striking example of the interest that attaches to the study of the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 26 | Elstir 's paintings persuade Marcel of their truth , but it 's a truth which is different from the intellectual truth which he first brought to his initial contemplation of those paintings , and Marcel says that in this way , by his art , Elstir frees us from the cramping tyranny of the intellect , by painting , and again I quote , ‘ by painting some unusual picture of a familiar object . |
| 27 | Des hurries us off the main road down the alleys , past some interesting graffiti to where his yellow Capri has collapsed beneath a lamp-post . |
| 28 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |
| 29 | Over and above all this , John tells us of the internal testimony of the Holy Spirit with the spirit of the believer , assuring him that God 's testimony to his Son is reliable , assuring him that the Christian experience is real . |
| 30 | An Anglican priest , Father Bernard Schunemann , told the congregation : ‘ The terrible death of James reminds us of the very real possibility of evil , evil in ourselves , evil in each one of us , evil certainly in young people . ’ |