Example sentences of "[vb infin] us [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dress shop assistants grow supercilious , aware that they can uplift or slay us with a single comment . |
| 2 | I wonder what price the bookies would give us for a Central South treble ; that 's Oxford to win the Boat Race , Gloucester to reach the Cup Final and Swindon to beat West Brom . |
| 3 | Yeah , what , no , tell us , what 's the maximum amount of timber you could theoretically give us on a good day . |
| 4 | However , it follows at once that they do not strictly present us with a distinct adjective position , but just a special case of the predicative adjective already discussed in Chapter 3 . |
| 5 | It will provide us with a great boost , ’ he said . |
| 6 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |
| 7 | He does n't just provide us with a general description , he puts forward more significant details and makes us visualise clearly and lets us see for ourselves what it was like . |
| 8 | This issue has also been addressed by other researchers , but the results do not provide us with a comprehensive national picture based on systematic analysis of the performance of non-traditional students . |
| 9 | ‘ Ca n't you provide us with a new x ray machine , incubators , analysers , and an ultrasound machine ? |
| 10 | The basic premise upon which much of this work is based is most succinctly expressed by William Downes : While Downes 's statement alludes to an unfashionable humanist notion of dramatic character , it does provide us with a valuable starting point for the present discussion . |
| 11 | Acorn would provide us with a ready-made hotel chain ripe for further expansion . |
| 12 | Then conscience would not so much be a faculty of intuiting truths as a God-given power within us which — if put in control — will steer us in a particular direction , when it comes to choosing between ourselves and others . |
| 13 | We have set very clear targets which will return us to a basic level of performance in the next two years . |
| 14 | It would also take us into a political world which , despite some continuities , was significantly different from that in which party politics first developed , came to fruition , and reached a climax under the later Stuarts . |
| 15 | This complete lack of rules will force us into a difficult situation , where the student will have to use his own intuition and aesthetic judgement . |
| 16 | Instead of letting our success lead us into a fat-cat mentality , it led us much more strongly and much faster into a mentality of asking what are we going to do with it . |
| 17 | Second , these principles should then lead us on a successful search for phenomena that we had not observed previously . |
| 18 | I think that there is a good chance that the study of the early universe and the requirements of mathematical consistency will lead us to a complete unified theory within the lifetime of some of us who are around today , always presuming we do n't blow ourselves up first . |
| 19 | What does this tell us about a biblical attitude regarding our partner 's body in the marriage relationship ? |
| 20 | ‘ I wonder if you might tell us of a local hostelry where I can purchase a good dinner ? |
| 21 | Having tried several adjustments to the system over the past 6 years , I hope this provides a format which will serve us for a good while into the future . |
| 22 | That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York . |
| 23 | ‘ That pulled us out of trading losses , but it still did n't really get us into a healthy trading position , ’ Tony Harrison recalls . |
| 24 | Starting with cost reduction any cost reduction programme always involves a lot of redundancy and , and this is no exception and from the slide you 'll see that we 've er we 've had a staff reduction er , from the the plan for this year of one thousand and thirty three er and that 's the , that will save us in a full year something like fifteen point nine , sixteen million pounds . |
| 25 | In overall terms , between 1900 and the present day , the state apparatus for collecting and sorting criminal information has changed so dramatically that we must question whether it can supply us with a valid measuring-stick with which to compare the two periods . |
| 26 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 27 | Examining these theories from pragmatics will involve us in a substantial digression from our main concern : which is to account for our intuitions of coherence and thus gain insight into the needs of the language learner , who after all aims to be able to produce coherent discourse , not isolated sentences . |