Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 2 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 3 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 4 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 5 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 6 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 7 | Just as surely God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship , so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great general disillusionment with others , with Christians in general , and , if we are fortunate , with ourselves . |
| 8 | The ‘ Dust in the air suspended ’ seems to present us with a barren desert of death . |
| 9 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 10 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 11 | He tries to concern us with the problem of liberals : ‘ When I trained , ’ says Gumede , an ANC guerrilla , ‘ they said that the liberal was more dangerous than the enemy . ’ |
| 12 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 13 | The wildfire growth of the Boy Scouts serves to remind us of the enormity of the Edwardian era 's preoccupation with its youth , and the groundswell of not only national enthusiasm but also deep funds of social anxiety . |
| 14 | The word serves to remind us of the importance of that element so far not introduced into the discussion : diplomacy . |
| 15 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 16 | Alayn , too , immediately afterwards , manages to remind us of the sexual sense of " to ride " in his farewell to Malyne : The miller , too , is like a horse in his sleep ; in his case , however , in his unselfconscious drunken snoring and farting ( 4162 ) . |
| 17 | The hound wakes , growls , shakes itself , and with a show of haste begins to pull us towards the four corners of the great morning . |
| 18 | This trap is the Devil 's second snare and is the one he sets if he fails to catch us with the first one . |
| 19 | It is when we make an attempt to clarify it that the confidence begins to desert us in the face of difficulties . |