Example sentences of "he [vb -s] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
| 3 | He leads us to the studio , where an interpreter relays another strange question to rapper and part-time Internationalist Wildski . |
| 4 | Quickly he immerses us in the euphoria of the Israelites and the terror and bravado of their enemies . |
| 5 | In doing this , he takes us over the ground first , telling us what to expect , what to look for , so that when the hurricane does hit it hits us harder : |
| 6 | He tells us at the beginning of his book that he is an Aristotelean in these matters , but the price he pays is that his definition simply fails to bear upon the intuitive criteria for an explication of consciousness , such as those set out above . |
| 7 | I look back through my tears at Andy , who 's following , looking desperate and uncertain , biting on one knuckle as he follows us through the bushes . |
| 8 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 9 | I gave his wife some mulberries last autumn and I know he trusts us with the petrol allowance and anyway this beastly rationing should be over soon , so I know I should n't complain when some people have had it much worse up in town . |
| 10 | After the events of chapter 26 he brings us to the time when Isaac is nearing death , and to the point when the blessing of the eldest son must be given . |
| 11 | And he instructs us in the way of life ! |
| 12 | And he leaves us with the teasing comment : ‘ Weizmann 's fermentation process with regard to oil works ; but that , for the moment , is all that can be stated . |