Example sentences of "[vb pp] [prep] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Our idea of what belongs to the realm of reality is given for us in the concepts which we use . ’ |
| 2 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 3 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 4 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 5 | We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name . |
| 6 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 7 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 8 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 9 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 10 | They have come to us from a time before recorded poets . |
| 11 | Strings sound silky but not close and the woodwind come to us from a perfectly judged distance . |
| 12 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 13 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 14 | The sound moved through us as the gunman 's shoulder and body jerked with the recoil of the rifle , the small boy 's face alert , fixated . |
| 15 | BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue . |
| 16 | There can be no doubt that for many women fear of loss is built into us by the way we 've been reared . |
| 17 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 18 | And who would have thought that as we face the 1990s the social and moral habits of the 1960s should be visited upon us in the guise of AIDS , which threatens to sweep across the world with all the terror and destruction of the black plague in the Middle Ages ? |
| 19 | Reality was thrust upon us by a passing Midland H.S.T. , as our loco ran round at Riddings . |
| 20 | ‘ Staff numbers had doubled over the previous five to six years and a programme of change had been thrust upon us by the market , ’ explained . |
| 21 | Chairman I have an amendment to that motion , because , because I believe it 's important that we start to identify a lot of councils publish at the end of the year for public consumption a list of the allowances drawn by members , and I think that would be very useful and I would make , as an amendment , I would , would add to the proposal put by Mr that we call for a report to be pu er , to be presented to us of the amounts of allowances drawn by members , each member |
| 22 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 23 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 24 | Haunted by the fear that perhaps man is not the superior species , we seek salvation and find it because the animal kingdom is presented to us as a world of such wonder and magical beauty that we can believe in God 's kingdom and therefore our divine right to rule . |
| 25 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 26 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 27 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 28 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 29 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 30 | It also means that enquiries like , " Who has applied to us as a project engineer over the last year , and been rejected as not sufficiently experienced ? " can be answered with ease . |