Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] we with " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 2 | While the objectors to Foxley Wood — and to Tillingham and Stone Bassett before it — may be rejoicing , the decision leaves us with no solutions to the future growth of population and households in the region . |
| 3 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 4 | Every day the Canyon humbles us with some new wonder : a 2,000ft sheer wall of red limestone , a golden eagle soaring down to the river to fish , a natural rock amphitheatre which would comfortably accommodate a full orchestra and 20,000 people . |
| 5 | ‘ The portacabin provided us with a way to offer them the best possible service under the circumstances . ’ |
| 6 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 7 | The programme provides us with a quaint selection of Sons , Brides and other relations of Frankenstein , all based on some English lady 's knock-off of Rabbi Judah Loewe and the golem of Prague . |
| 8 | The Jews provide us with the single most illuminating incident of the episcopate of Avitus . |
| 9 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
| 10 | The Gospels present us with a picture of Jesus of Nazareth searching out those left on the edge , and bringing them into the heart of God 's kingdom . |
| 11 | ‘ The Geophysical Observatory in Port Moresby have over the years provided us with very useful earthquake data and are helping us monitor the after shocks which are sill being felt in the Tari area . ’ |
| 12 | The apes provide us with much information concerning possible roots of sociable behaviour in man . |
| 13 | On request , the East Midlands Region Office of the NCC supplied us with permits to visit . |
| 14 | The team served us with a final cocktail of emotions : happy , poignant and even philosophical . |
| 15 | One provides us with food , one provi , puts bits together and the other provides us with a service . |
| 16 | The strings provide us with the most expressive and appealing medium ( with perhaps the exception of the human voice ) that exists in the whole range of music . |
| 17 | After this build-up of the neocortex as the organ endowing us with superior mental functions , it is time to see what messages are actually passed along its nerve fibres . |
| 18 | I did n't show you the , the grade and the stage curves because we all know what they look like but what I 'm saying is that by doing the count provides us with additional information on this group of patients . |
| 19 | A seagull on one of the lifeboats regarded us with a voyeur 's eye . |
| 20 | a chivalric Don Quixote figure of absolute non-compromise in matters ( as he sees them ) of virtue and truth , in effect an overspill from The Idiot — which Dostoevsky seems to have recognized , for he abandoned the positive and sublime venture , and hived off the comic material he had accumulated into the drunken buffoon Captain Lebyadkin who grows into a substantial second-rank character in The Possessed ; , and as to Kartuzov , the novelist left us with nothing more than his cappy surname . |
| 21 | ‘ All the ladies impressed us with their charm , their sense of humour and their vivacity . |
| 22 | Most known nuclear species are in fact unstable , so the laser provides us with a single technique to measure directly shapes , sizes and magnetic moments of many more nuclei than we could study before . |
| 23 | In order to restrict the circulation of information memoranda , we require recipients of the memorandum to supply us with a letter confirming that they will treat the information contained therein as strictly private and confidential and will not disclose or otherwise make it available to third party . |
| 24 | As well as giving us data for the industry , the LFS provided us with information about the narrow ( KOS ) occupational group of waiters and bar staff in which casuals are concentrated . |
| 25 | Everybody scattered , including the scared young lady with the serious skin condition ; she just vanished out of the back of the café leaving us with smashed bottles and glasses . |
| 26 | The oceans provide us with much more than pleasure for the diver and beautiful photographs for the photographer ; they also give us invaluable knowledge . |
| 27 | Inasmuch as the parables provide us with some indication of how Jesus saw the world , it must be said that women would appear . |
| 28 | ‘ The Celebes presents us with the most striking example of the interest that attaches to the study of the geographical distribution of animals . |
| 29 | Unless carefully monitored , stimulation of the brain leaves us with the problem of not knowing the extent of the area that has been affected by the stimulation . |
| 30 | ‘ While engaged in watching the movements of the several species of the great family of Procellaridae , which at one time often and often surrounded the ships that conveyed me round the world , a bright speck would appear on the distant horizon , and , gradually approaching nearer and nearer , at length assumed the form of the White-headed petrel , whose wing-powers far exceed those of any of its congeners ; at one moment it would be rising high in the air , at the next sweeping comet-like through the flocks flying around ; never , however , approaching the ship sufficiently near for a successful shot , and it was equally wary in avoiding the boat with which I was frequently favoured for the purpose of securing examples of other species ; but , to make use of a familiar adage , the most knowing are taken in at last ’ ’ ; one beautiful morning , the 20th of Feb. 1839 , during my passage from Hobart Town to Sydney , when the sea was perfectly calm and of a glassy smoothness , this wanderer of the ocean came in sight and approached within three hundred yards of the vessel ; anxious to attract him still closer , so as to bring him within range , I thought of the following stratagem : — a corked bottle , attached to a long line , was thrown overboard and allowed to drift to the distance of forty or fifty yards , and kept there until the bird favoured us with another visit , while flying around in immense circles ; at length his keen eye caught sight of the neck of the bottle ( to which a bobbing motion was communicated by sudden jerks of the string ) , and he at once proceeded to examine more closely what it was that had arrested his attention ; during this momentary pause the trigger was pulled , the boat lowered , and the bird was soon in my possession . ’ |