Example sentences of "our [noun] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |
| 2 | From 1689 a new form of service was established for that day , thanking God for discovering " the snares of death that were laid for us " in 1605 , " and likewise upon this day " for bringing King William " safely into this Kingdom , to preserve us from the late attempts of our enemies to bereave us of our religion and laws " . |
| 3 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 4 | Our route takes us along the shores of Lake Zell , via Thumersbach , Schloss Kammer , Gerling Zum Ritzensee , and then on to Maria Alm . |
| 5 | The language of the marketing echoes exactly that of any supermarket brand-name : ‘ our readers perceive us as a brand of books with a special flavour and image ’ . |
| 6 | For this reason we are asking our readers to tell us about their experiences in the jobs race . |
| 7 | Here our itinerary takes us along the new section of the road , rather surprisingly signposted to Fort William , and brings us to the first railway so far seen , at Strathcarron Station . |
| 8 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 9 | Maybe that 's why our law prevents us from adopting methods more than are sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 10 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 11 | IF YOU NEED A LIFT TO THE POLLING STATION OR IF YOU WANT TO HELP IN OUR CAMPAIGN RING US ON 771300 |
| 12 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 13 | So the Holy Spirit works , in our lives to bring us to Christ , to bring us to new birth . |
| 14 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 15 | In saying that our senses restrict us to appearances and that therefore we know nothing , they would mistakenly be supposing that knowledge is exclusively knowledge of necessary causes and inner natures . |
| 16 | When trials come we must trust what he has revealed about himself in the Bible rather than what our senses tell us at that particular point in time . |
| 17 | Basically , our diet supplies us with two things : energy to fuel ourselves , and the building blocks required to create and to replace worn out and lost components of our bodies . |
| 18 | Sunday : Betty came into our room to fetch us to Mama who was dying . |
| 19 | Our travels led us to places as far apart as Sanderstown , San Francisco , New York , and London — all in search of an ‘ insurance ’ that would guarantee for us peace and tranquillity on Koraloona , the most beautiful island of the whole beautiful Moto Varu archipelago . |
| 20 | ‘ Although we can use our reaction to lead us to it . ’ |
| 21 | Has our education prepared us for such perplexing indecision ? |
| 22 | ( 180 ) … and seek to express ourselves as we are , and not as we would have our friend to think us to be . |
| 23 | Of the great fear of the men of property our sources leave us in no doubt . |
| 24 | We must therefore keep tight control on stocks of both raw materials and finished products and ensure that our customers pay us on time . |
| 25 | More recently , the Cork Committee Report on Insolvency Law and Practice ( 1982 ) Cmnd 8558 , para 1623 expressed the following opinion : We are conscious that our remit limits us to recommendations concerning the law of insolvency . |
| 26 | The kindness of our neighbours helped us over this difficult period . |
| 27 | Here were people through no fault of their own , government policy , mismanagement and lo and behold , our union kick us in the bloody face because you 're unemployed . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Our fieldwork brought us into contact with a number of organisations in that sector which could be described as " new " users , seeking to manage a climate of increased " uncertainty " . |
| 30 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |