Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 2 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 3 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 4 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 7 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 10 | And John 's got us onto the next one I see . |
| 11 | We are particularly grateful to members of the undergraduate years 1965 , who responded to the Librarian 's appeal for items to display at the Gaudy in June , and to Nina Bawden ( Mabey , 1943 ) who has supplied us with a complete set of her novels . |
| 12 | There in Ephesians one three Blessed be the God and father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly places in Christ . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ My God , ’ said Wexford in disgust , ‘ I just hope you have n't landed us with a female Tichborne claimant . ’ |
| 15 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 16 | New political thinking had " rid us of a confrontational approach in foreign policy " , making the Soviet Union " a country open to the world and to co-operation , generating not fear , but respect and solidarity " . |
| 17 | Russian , ultimately , has brought us to a similar endeavour . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | These clothes were got from a pawnshop in Kendal ; the rouge came from an acquaintance of Mrs Charlotte Deans , the actress ; the chaise was loaned us by a young friend of mine whose father owns the chief coaching firm in the town . |
| 21 | Fortunately the steam clothed us in a little decency . |
| 22 | Perhaps racism has conditioned us to a greater extent than we expected . |
| 23 | Roland Smith has provided us with a fascinating and interesting book that should whet the appetite of many hill walkers and will certainly provide a wealth of useful background information when planning a walk to some of the ‘ Great Viewpoints ’ of Britain . |
| 24 | Yet this shift of interest away from ‘ primitive ’ societies has not provided us with a new framework of analysis for we still tend to ‘ tribalise ’ complex societies by looking at the simpler aspects e.g. rural communities only . |
| 25 | The low waters of this summer have provided us with a superb opportunity for fish spotting and also for mapping the contours of the river bed . |
| 26 | Bruno Bettelheim ( 1976 ) — — not without his critics , see , for example , Tucker ( 1984 ) — clearly takes this view , for he has provided us with a detailed study of fairy tales , The uses of enchantment . |
| 27 | Men have provided us with a false picture of the world … not just because their view is so limited , but because they have insisted that their limited view is the total view . |
| 28 | He regrets that ‘ language , which adapts itself for the most part only to the common uses of life , has provided us with no single-worded or immediate designation ’ for the impression . |
| 29 | If nothing else , he has provided us with an excellent description of coffin-making , coffin furniture and grave clothes of the mid seventeenth century . |
| 30 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |