Example sentences of "and [vb -s] we [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure . |
| 2 | In the flickering firelight Kalchu beseeched him , ‘ Lord , you are the one who , when we have nothing , feeds us with water and clothes us with the wind . |
| 3 | Separation releases the brakes of the inhibition and frees us in the two worlds . |
| 4 | In Valentina 's Italian Family Feast ( Conran Octopus , £15.99 ) , TV favourite Valentina Harris takes us on a tour of Italy and introduces us to the food served by her family at parties and other celebrations . |
| 5 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 6 | Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development . |
| 7 | The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation . |
| 8 | Caroline , in her Souvenirs intimes , remarks that ‘ Fëlicitë and her parrot really lived ’ and directs us towards the first Trouville parrot , that of Captain Barbey , as the true ancestor of Loulou . |
| 9 | As fast as they came , the assembly gathers and rushes us towards the door . |
| 10 | The blast furnace heat at Aswan jumps off the tarmac and hits us like a blow as I lead my group towards the terminal building . |
| 11 | The Commission and the member states can draft as many biblical texts as they like , but the European Court of Justice has the last word and provides us with the ultimate truth . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | This brings a feeling of emptiness that can never be filled and leaves us with a hunger for more . |
| 14 | Our inability to celebrate death takes the flavour from our food and leaves us in a state of wilfully maintained childhood with nursery tastes to match . |
| 15 | I doubt I am alone in responding to Hamish Brown 's article on Munros in the December issue , where again he adopts his posture of lordly authority and treats us to a display of elitism , self-righteousness , self-congratulation and contradictions . |
| 16 | It 's doing something like this which is historically the foundation of this country and carries us to a new era . |
| 17 | It 's doing something like this which is historically the foundation of this country and carries us to a new era . |
| 18 | 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 . |