Example sentences of "[vb base] us with the [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
3 | Goals and values plus energy provide us with the vital information on motivation to perform and it is these variables which provide the best data on how an individual is likely to perform . |
4 | Unfortunately none of the five provide us with the expected objective measure of pain which we could apply with confidence to adults or to babies or to animals . |
5 | Help us Lord , to live a hundred percent for you ; fill us with the Holy Spirit , and help us to make Jesus the centre of our life and work every day , wherever You have called us to be . |
6 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |