Example sentences of "[det] [verb] us with the " in BNC.
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| 1 | That blessed us with the vision faith had won , |
| 2 | Not only does this provide us with the content to be taught , but it also lays the foundation on which final assessment can be based ; however , before we can devise our objectives , two further collections of information are needed . |
| 3 | This leaves us with the possibility that , while the previous life the patient describes may not actually have happened , he is not deliberately inventing it but relating something which may have been created in his subconscious mind and which he really believes to be true . |
| 4 | So , how does this help us with the circular rows we do during the cast on sequence ? |
| 5 | The expression I is not of course the only such troublesome feature of English ; the following examples all present us with the same sort of problems ( with the relevant deictic expression italicized , a convention followed throughout this Chapter ) : ( 6 ) You are the mother of Napoleon ( 7 ) This is an eighteenth-century man-trap ( 8 ) Mary is in love with that fellow over there ( 9 ) It is now 12.15 The sentences are true , respectively , just in case the addressee is indeed the mother of Napoleon , the object currently being indicated by the speaker is indeed an eighteenth-century man-trap , Mary is indeed in love with the fellow in the location indicated by the speaker , and at the time of speaking it is indeed 12.15 . |
| 6 | Of course , that leaves us with the problem raised in the first chapter — the extent to which such old people feel they are no longer able to engage in transactions which benefit others as well as themselves . |
| 7 | And that leaves us with the second alternative . |