Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 2 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 5 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 8 | Conor 's hit us with the big one . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 11 | 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 . ’ |
| 12 | I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits . |
| 13 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Generations of inventors and investors have kept us on the technological frontier . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | By contrast , the electronic mass media of our contemporary society have made all things new , or rather , have returned us to the primordial situation : |