Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] us [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 2 | A study published by Age Concern Scotland concluded : ‘ Ageism leads to a perception of old age as an affliction or disease which turns us into a special kind of being which is not fully human . ’ |
| 3 | When we plan a language syllabus we can draw on very comprehensive descriptions of the language which provide us with a basis for deciding what should go into the syllabus and in what order . |
| 4 | The effects of the adrenaline which prepared us for a fight or flight situation actually work against us when we can not do either . |
| 5 | ‘ I managed to win a few line-out takes and the backrow picked up a bit of their possession which pleased us as a unit . |
| 6 | This last drawing exercise is a summary of the simple process of thinking which leads us into a deeper appreciation of how we have come to be what we are . |
| 7 | While it is true that , in most of them , a party with 10 per cent of the popular vote holds 100 per cent of the power , this is surely preferable to our present system , which condemns us to a lifetime of minority rule . |
| 8 | FRESH GARBAGE from Frank Zappa 's bulging tape archive which takes us on a trip to the heart of greasy rock ‘ n ’ roll in the company of his much-maligned Flo & Eddie ensemble . |
| 9 | The kind of reasoning that we have discussed , which takes us from a finite list of singular statements to the justification of a universal statement , which takes us from some to all , is called inductive reasoning and the process is called induction . |
| 10 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 11 | This time it is not a natural parting of the ways like leaving school that has happened ; rather , an unexpected factor , for example some form of incurable disease or sudden death through illness or accident has occurred , which propels us into a significant loss that we are not prepared for . |
| 12 | Not unexpectedly , we all learn to filter out data which puts us in a bad light , and we learn to tell our superiors what they want to hear . |
| 13 | None of this excuses their behaviour , of course , but this is an unusually human account of an all-too-human encounter in the streets which reminds us of a certain constancy of human motive , and of conflicts built around the human meanings that are attached to the social realities of class , physical appearance and territory . |
| 14 | This lascivious hankering for the impossible , this lusty speculation and mystification , what the Vermorels call ‘ consumer mysticism ’ , all of this was written off by Punk , which left us with a shame about worship , made it a pad of its task to negotiate equal terms between audience and artist . |
| 15 | ‘ So here we are , three years on , with little apparent progress and a buck-passing to the university , which leaves us with a potentially expensive and fiercely unwanted situation , ’ said Sir David . |
| 16 | Some are based upon the effects of seasonal change and are therefore directly related to the orbit of the earth about the sun , which provides us with a useful unit of time , the year . |
| 17 | Because my one fear is saying , yes we need four per cent thinking that are gon na go for eight , ten or whatever to put us on a par |