Example sentences of "can [vb infin] us [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | See as you 've found your wallet you can treat us to a chicken |
2 | I must never forget that He can influence us to right interpretation and thinking and even to some inspired initiative of love . |
3 | Who can deliver us from the power of these mighty gods ? ’ |
4 | ‘ If you can oblige us with that bit of information you can turn the donkey loose and we 'll find it on the road for the man who reported it lost . |
5 | Both the external and the internal factors can affect us at the physical , emotional , mental and spiritual levels . |
6 | We must examine it to see what sense it can yield us in the case of those who , as it happens , are not men in the first place , and in what way , once this is done , it will have changed its meaning for those who , by no special fault or merit of their own , actually are so . |
7 | The fact is that Labour wants to keep the poll tax so that it can attack us with it . |
8 | He can introduce us to some American girls and boys who spoke up about what they noticed and liked . |
9 | — the way in which he and his colleagues can assist us on an individual basis . |
10 | When he concluded by saying that : ‘ We at the ANC are convinced that cricket can assist us in achieving the new South Africa to which we all aspire , ’ he was warmly applauded by the tourists management and captain Kepler Wessels . |
11 | You can watch us at work . |
12 | ‘ No one can accuse us of sitting still ! ’ |
13 | The ‘ right ’ perfume , deodorant , hairdo , suit of clothes , and shoes trivialize our desires and can devalue us as people . |
14 | Studying literature , then , is a serious business ; it is concerned with close examination of those authors who can bring us to a deeper ( and more moral ) understanding of humanity . |
15 | Meditation can bring us into the immediate presence of God . |
16 | Such a view is of course anachronistic , but this is exactly the attraction of Gironella 's reworkings — he can present us with shifting visions of the art of the past , from within and from without , exploiting contrary responses , period eye and innocent eye . |
17 | And I find it somehow very encouraging that television can present us with real people instead of the usual cyphers and still strike such deep and resonant chords in so many . |
18 | Kate Garner 's brief was to locate the humour in their characters , creating portraits of this select band of people who can trip us into laughter . |
19 | Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities . |
20 | It is the same today ; neither we nor our friends or loved ones can cleanse us by any means from sin or its due punishment . |
21 | ‘ You can contact us on that . |
22 | This does not mean that the old books can provide us with no concrete evidence from the past , but it does mean that old books must be read with delicacy ; with a sense that if we go blundering into them , assuming that they mean what we mean by words like sky , earth , history or nature we shall get everything wrong . |
23 | ‘ Why not , if he can provide us with the answer . ’ |
24 | CREDO Mid-Pay is a completely confidential service , since you alone determine who can provide us with payroll information , and who can receive it . |
25 | So neither incorrigibility nor indubitability can provide us with an alternative form of foundationalism . |
26 | Well it I mean already , it is having quite an im impact erm especially for items like furniture and bedding , and I mean bedding does n't last for ever , especially with a family , and I know erm they 're allowed every so often , but erm I mean I think erm the the cutbacks are becoming more and more and more and and people seem to be which means that we have to look around for voluntary erm agencies that ca such as , who can provide us with furniture or beds and bedding . |
27 | ( 2 ) You can provide us with such sums from your own resources on account of costs , to defray the expenses , as and when they occur . |
28 | I 'm sure your sister can see us to the gate . |
29 | That way they can ring us for help if the other child needs it . ’ |
30 | This is not a call to glorify suffering for its own sake , but to realize that nothing can separate us from the love of Christ , whatever it may be . |