Example sentences of "us [prep] an [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Alternatively , join us for an optional excursion to Vienna Woods , including a trip to the hunting lodge at Mayerling . |
| 2 | It 's tuesday and so Dr Kathleen Long 's here with us for an open surgery . |
| 3 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
| 4 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 5 | This quotation points us towards an historical account of both the ‘ social evolution of Britain ’ and the ‘ certain political factors ’ which have weakened the ‘ class ’ alignment in British politics . |
| 6 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 7 | May I , in the interest of domestic bliss , remind us of an old joke : a man tells his doctor that he is giving up drinking , smoking and sex and asks if he will live longer . |
| 8 | Right now again you remind us of an important thing we should 've mentioned . |
| 9 | The north wind gave the day a restless feeling , and the journey stretched before us like an early map whose faint features were pleasingly unreliable . |
| 10 | I glance fearfully at Enid , but she is smiling at us like an indulgent mother . |
| 11 | God does n't stand over us like an angry judge wanting to convict us and sentence us ; rather he watches over us with love and tenderness , always willing to forgive us for our misdemeanours and mistakes . |
| 12 | shocks us into an unfamiliar mode of experience , by using language suggestive of a primitive state of consciousness . |
| 13 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |
| 14 | Taken together with higher level knowledge , these could provide us with an alternative technique for correcting errors within the system . |
| 15 | So neither incorrigibility nor indubitability can provide us with an alternative form of foundationalism . |
| 16 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 17 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 18 | Furthermore , as we shall see shortly , the individualistic fallacy obscures an obvious but usually unasked question and , in so doing , rules out of court the answer to it which , as I hope to show , solves in large measure one of the fundamental problems of the social sciences and provides us with an unparalleled insight into the social psychopathology of present-day life . |
| 19 | This letter is to confirm our agreement that you will provide us with an authoring program for Reading for English . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | The Mother Superior knew it was time to end this interview , so now she stood up , saying , ‘ Well , Mrs Winkowski , I 'm sure you can leave your charge with us with an easy mind . |
| 22 | In particular , Oakeshott 's conception provides us with an insightful critique of Dicey 's method in Law of the Constitution . |
| 23 | That 's not always attractive cos initially that 's more expensive for them , but er they ha they have to er come to us with an open mind as well . |
| 24 | He ran across the gangplank as enthusiastically as though he sought votes for his father 's election campaign , then approached us with an outstretched hand and a voice full of bright greetings . |
| 25 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 26 | Further to my telephone conversation with your assistant , I am now writing to ask if Aspinwall & Co can help us with an important project related to the above . |
| 27 | Flows of assistance between generations provide us with an important example where , in practice , support is often one way , and where apparently this is regarded as quite proper . |
| 28 | Their joint commissions reached well over a hundred , and though by the time the Dolls ' House was created , Miss Jekyll was nearly eighty and practically blind , being asked to design the garden gave her immense satisfaction , and has left us with an unaltered glimpse of this period of England 's gardening history . |
| 29 | Yet , despite the rapid growth of these more recent subjects , history retains its traditional importance in higher education , since its social , cultural , economic and political concerns provide us with an interdisciplinary approach to problems that includes the perspectives and many of the methods of the various social sciences , yet also seeks to establish a broader , overall assessment of the issues it examines . |
| 30 | If nothing else , he has provided us with an excellent description of coffin-making , coffin furniture and grave clothes of the mid seventeenth century . |