Example sentences of "have [vb pp] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We are n't animals — God has blessed us with free will . |
| 2 | Dismissed as a novelty ever since it first began , rap has not only survived but has provided us with endless pleasures and variations . |
| 3 | via satellite and telecommunication links , sophisticated means of communication for a vast range of purposes including the control of spacecraft , weather forecasting and news transmission , and has provided us with vast and easily accessible data banks . |
| 4 | This has put us in good heart for Leicestershire . ’ |
| 5 | It is much more geared to the administration of personnel records than was the bureau system but the experience we gained using the bureau has stood us in good stead for our own system . |
| 6 | ‘ As we had maintained our large weighting in overseas equities and cash throughout the period of UK membership of the ERM , this cautious perception of the political and economic risks being run has stood us in good stead . ’ |
| 7 | The most likely scenario is that we will continue to see a surge of Ketamine experimentation fuelled by sensationalist media articles and the renewed enthusiasm for quasi-psychedelics prompted by Ecstasy that has overtaken us in recent years . |
| 8 | The new book was to be handed to me by the minister , the Revd Dr Adam Burnet , only after we had signed the register — no self-respecting hotel would have accepted us with different names . |
| 9 | it 's a little disappointing because we had been lying insecond place and that would have stood us in good stead for the rest of the competition |
| 10 | Twice in the last half century they have plunged us into British wars and twice have they taken our finest youth from under our beds and from behind our hams . |
| 11 | " We are strong , brave , clever — and the gods have blessed us with magical voices , too . " |
| 12 | That prick Davy Mulligan 's stiffed us with brown sugar … ’ |