Example sentences of "[is] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |
| 2 | The general effect of moral rules linked with the category distinction normal/abnormal is to provide us with a sense of social order . |
| 3 | Oh , Jesus , she 's driving us up the wall . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | To the extant that Professor Preston is warning us of the dangers of oversimplification and bad herme-neutics then we do well to listen to him . |
| 6 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
| 7 | We have excellent food — almost twice as much as we can eat is offered us at every meal — and we have well heated rooms , which is indeed a blessing , when you compare the virtual absence of heating at the Peking Languages Institute where we work . |
| 8 | Our very success is leading us into a dangerous future … |
| 9 | James laughed , ‘ Look at them , Angus , look at the people , they are rampant now , this is better than ‘ Forty-five , nobody is dying , no royal fop is leading us into the bog . |
| 10 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 11 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 12 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 13 | Whereas identification of an E may quite easily be aided by the introduction of a P actually applicable to a different E , to claim completeness of an E and a P when the latter neither helps to identify the former nor is applicable to it is to leave us with a construction which does nothing coherent at all . |
| 14 | However , as we remarked in Chapter 1 , to identify pragmatics wholly with the truth-conditional apparatus that will handle indexicals is to leave us with no term for all those aspects of natural language significance that are not in any way amenable to truth-conditional analysis . |
| 15 | The People 's Hotel is on a grand scale , and we drive in style to the Foreign Language Institute , where our course takes place , every day , in company with Comrade Gao ( Ministry of Education ) , Comrade Yu ( our local interpreter ) and Comrade Wu ( a lady in her forties who is accompanying us on the rest of our tour ) . |
| 16 | The ultimate ‘ aim ’ of beauty , if there can be said to be such a thing , is to point us towards the spiritual realm . |
| 17 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 18 | It 's like it 's there and it 's staring us in the face but I just ca n't … ca n't access it . ’ |
| 19 | It is staring us in the face . |
| 20 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 21 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 22 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 23 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 24 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
| 25 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 26 | This is taking us from the mundane and the ugly and helping us to see something of the reality of the splendour of God in our lives , particularly when we worship Him . |
| 27 | ‘ Mr Foggerty 's taking us to the baths after school , he said . ’ |
| 28 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 29 | Milton 's task , of course , is to convince us of the sin involved . |
| 30 | Fortunately was interested and immediately delved into his record collection and started to play some old rock 'n' roll LP 's to get us in the mood . |