Example sentences of "he [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Omar learnt that he was related to the Sultan , and we hoped that we might persuade him to provide us with a guide to Aussa .
2 God under takes to teach us through the Spirit if we will allow him to lead us into a closer understanding of and obedience to Jesus Christ .
3 May we allow Him to lead us into the unknown , may we draw our courage from Him and may we place our trust in His loving kindness .
4 Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal .
5 You often hire him to take us across the river .
6 Tell him to join us in the admiral 's cabin at once . ’
7 He ruled us with an iron hand and , while he was a very fair man , woe betide any officer who crossed him .
8 By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party .
9 Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake .
10 He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots .
11 With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional .
12 And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important .
13 He led us through a gate and into a perfect little rose garden .
14 He led us across the antechamber to show us a tar-drenched jacket lined with sulphur which hung from a hook on the wall .
15 While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow .
16 A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house .
17 Our smiles of anticipation dimmed somewhat when he led us into the coffee shop , but he was a good sort and I hope we did not embarrass him .
18 He led us into the house and introduced us to his two nieces , Nosheen and Simeen .
19 He led us up a steep track until we were 1,000 feet above the long Lochranza inlet .
20 He led us past the remains of the Young Eea , a copse of blackened and dead trees , planted some 150 years ago , but drowned when the land was inundated with water .
21 For an example of this , he refers us to a code of practice of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry , with which some firms who are not members of the association nevertheless voluntarily agree to comply .
22 Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing .
23 2 He provided us with a new theory as to the essential reality of governing , in the period of classical parliamentary government , in the period when members of the Commons enjoyed a golden age of independence between the fall of patronage and the rise of highly organised political parties .
24 GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground .
25 He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me .
26 He referred us to a dictum of Simon Brown J. in Reg. v. Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth , Ex parte Wachmann [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , 1040 , which is to the following effect :
27 He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love .
28 To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town .
29 He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) .
30 He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station .
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