Example sentences of "[vb pp] for us [prep] the " 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 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 4 | This ‘ cleanness ’ was not an exclusively English taste ( even if it is elaborated for us in the poems of an exceptional writer ) , for Sir Gawayn and the Green Knight is outstandingly ‘ French ’ among the English romances and gives a superbly articulate voice to international courtly values at a time when art-historians begin to speak of an International Style in the visual arts . |
| 5 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 6 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 7 | What they witnessed , and what was recreated for us by the Ulster Youth Dance Company in Stranmillis College Theatre at the weekend was a spectacle far more disturbing and revolutionary . |
| 8 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 9 | Such banquets are portrayed for us on the Bayeux Tapestry , or at least the early stages of them . |
| 10 | It might also encourage the lordly ones who run the Trust to see that its properties only have real value and interest when set in a wider social background that the rather greenery-yallery context in which too many of them are set for us by the Trust 's publications . |
| 11 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 12 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 13 | Next morning in the market , shopping for a picnic , our struggles with the phrasebook brought an English-speaking Thai to our rescue , explaining that the quail eggs we had bought were raw , but could be cooked for us in the soup cauldron wherever we took breakfast . |
| 14 | This fact is a trifle obscured for us by the modern doctrine of the holiday . |