Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 2 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 3 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 6 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 7 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 8 | And John 's got us onto the next one I see . |
| 9 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 10 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 11 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 12 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 13 | Conor 's hit us with the big one . ’ |
| 14 | And British Gas have asked us in the particular area to utilise the facilities that are in the area erm to the best , and give two hundred youngsters the opportunity that they might never have had . |
| 15 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 16 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 17 | I thank all the people who have supported us over the past eleven years and assure them that T.R. Shipping will be every bit as dedicated in the future . ’ |
| 18 | I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits . |
| 19 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 20 | The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path . |
| 21 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 22 | ‘ Whoever tried to kill us in the plane , whoever that was , has put us on the same side . ’ |
| 23 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |
| 24 | Welcome to new readers who have joined us with the recent acquisitions of Argyll Services a London-based office and retail cleaning company , Wessex Hygiene Services who specialise in kitchen ventilation and convector cleaning in Bristol , Wiltshire and Somerset , and Rowland Compliance testing who take us into a new realm of contract servicing in circuit testing and maintenance of electrical appliances . |
| 25 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 26 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 27 | Almut Suerbaum , of the university of Munster , has joined us as the new Fellow in German ; as a specialist in Medieval German literature she continues the tradition of her predecessor . |
| 28 | And our proper anxiety to complement the market with collectively delivered provision has sometimes blinded us to the obvious point that the only real purpose of any provision is the satisfaction of individual needs , and that a failure in these terms will be judged harshly . |
| 29 | By contrast , the electronic mass media of our contemporary society have made all things new , or rather , have returned us to the primordial situation : |