Example sentences of "[noun prp] have [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He depicted the life of enslaved mine workers in dark colours , and was altogether sensitive to the suffering of the humble ( as Professor Strasburger has reminded us in Journ . |
| 2 | That 's what Tod has brought us to . |
| 3 | Although such answers may not seem entirely convincing today , principally because of the insights which Darwin and Freud have given us into ourselves , it is nevertheless true that an approach to the problem based on evolution and psychoanalysis would yield analogous , if different , answers . |
| 4 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |
| 5 | Alexander III of Scotland has left us as an heir a three-year-old Norwegian princess . |
| 6 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 7 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 8 | I felt sure Miss Havisham had chosen us for each other . |
| 9 | Conor 's hit us with the big one . ’ |
| 10 | Mickey 's invited us to a party at his house , and no one turns down an invite to Mickey 's ! |
| 11 | Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices . |
| 12 | Mozart has shown us on many occasions in his scores how delightful a melodic phrase can sound when given to bassoon and flute at two octaves distance . |
| 13 | That prick Davy Mulligan 's stiffed us with brown sugar … ’ |
| 14 | And it was a terrible winter that winter , there was about a foot of snow on the ground and I remember Slayney 's moved us with er er a pair of horses and er and er a little removal van . |
| 15 | We are excited as a group in knowing God has called us to India but we realise how much we need Him in order for us to be effective . |
| 16 | God has called us to be the Elishas — the people of God — in twentieth century Exeter . |
| 17 | The consequences of our choice are serious , because God has made us in his image and likeness . |
| 18 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 19 | Or is it the picture God has given us of himself ? |
| 20 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
| 21 | Whether we avoid certain foods because God has told us to , or whether it 's simply because of the E numbers ; whether our purification rituals are there to chase out demons in the name of spiritual purity , or germs in the name of hygiene … we all have a sense that beyond the boundaries of our lives lurks Chaos . |
| 22 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 23 | Before we had time to correct his mistake , Mr Postman had sat us in a row at the top of the courtyard . |
| 24 | The Law itself was good , Christ had freed us from its misuse as spiritually crippling . |
| 25 | Maybe we were on our way to a cheap Indian self-service restaurant that Malcolm had introduced us to . |
| 26 | Ron had taken us to Lanzarote in the Canary Islands for warm-weather training . |
| 27 | ‘ I was in Boston when the word came through that Derrygonnelly had beaten us in the championship . |
| 28 | ‘ Gabriel 's told us of yourself and your daughter . ’ |
| 29 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 30 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |