Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] us the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the final volume , Proust speaks of involuntary memory as being used in art , being used in such a way that , and I quote , ‘ this moment , freed from the bondage of time , recreates within us the sensation of a self freed from the bondage of time . ’ |
| 2 | This point Marx made much more explicitly in Capital , Book ‘ [ 378–9 ] : ‘ The simplicity of the productive organism in these self-sufficient communities — which continually reproduce their kind , and , if destroyed by chance , reconstruct themselves in the same locality and under the same name — this simplicity unlocks for us the mystery of the unchangeableness of Asiatic society , which contrasts so strongly with the perpetual dissolutions and reconstructions of Asiatic states . ’ |
| 3 | Every step forward requires of us the abandonment of the past . |
| 4 | In other words , it is the Spirit of Jesus who reproduces in us the crucifixion and the resurrection of our Lord . |
| 5 | But these are some of the things , faith opens to us the door to every blessing that is ours in Christ . |
| 6 | The Bible encourages in us the desire for God as the source of human happiness . |
| 7 | Similarly , via the intermediary of reflected light rays , interaction between the corpuscles of gold and those of our eyes produces in us the idea of yellowness . |
| 8 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |
| 9 | It imposes on us the belief that it is wrong to steal or to commit murder — and that has to be a good thing . |
| 10 | You see , Christmas is linked with the season of Advent — the season of hope which sets before us the hope of his coming to restore all things and bring all things to a glorious conclusion . |
| 11 | God could so easily say that , too , but he does not ; he negotiates from a basis of weakness which becomes for us the power of God unto salvation . |
| 12 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |
| 13 | The nature or our existence hides from us the knowledge of first beginnings which are born of the Nothing ; and the littleness of our being conceals from us the sight of the Infinite . |
| 14 | He it is who not only empowers us to do right , but works in us the desire to want to do right , without which we would never dream of turning to ask him for his strength . |