Example sentences of "that [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If we are alert to textual detail — and all studies of the reverberations of imagery in the Miller 's Tale tell us that it is a tale that encourages us to be so ( see below ) — then we can also find a suggestive parallel between Absolon 's inability to detach himself entirely from the vulgarities of the human world and the Host 's failure to impose an elegantly hierarchical structure on the tale-telling competition . |
| 2 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 3 | Ties that bind us to mother |
| 4 | ‘ It is the quest of our ego that drives us along the eternal and never-ending journey we must all explore … what am I ? |
| 5 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 6 | ‘ There 's a rockier feel to Mother Earth that separates us from a band like the Heavies , ’ comments founding member Bunny . |
| 7 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 8 | I hope that got us through the little post-lunch siesta period , erm , we 're going to do another er , time management game now which will take about half an hour , and I need to split you up once again into groups , erm , okay . |
| 9 | As some of the old Orkney words and expressions fall in to disuse , links in the valuable heritage that thurls us to our Viking ancestry are broken . |
| 10 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 11 | Kozyrev highlighted the spirit of co-operation between the two sides : " We worked as friends and allies standing on one side of the barricade of all the problems that beset us on the other . " |
| 12 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
| 13 | Should we just enjoy the things that touch us in a painting or should it spur us on to learn more ? |
| 14 | One of the things that helped us over this difficult period was the fact that earlier that year the cutter crews had decided to form their very own association . |
| 15 | And the big , one of the big things that affected us in the last few years was er Dallas . |
| 16 | Erm , everything else we 've looked at , there are either statutory problems or other problems that prevent us from charging . |
| 17 | Unlike the singer-songwriter creed , attention is always drawn away from the song to the figure of the person working at it : there 's a flagrant exhibitionism that forces us into the role of voyeur . |
| 18 | This is the only system that allows us to readily identify strangers and protect ourselves and our company . ’ |
| 19 | I have made mention elsewhere of the sense that warns us of impending danger , and will not labour the subject further beyond stating that this sense is a very real one and that I do not know , and therefore can not explain , what brings it into operation . |
| 20 | ‘ One of the things that attracted us to him is that he is someone who is willing to stand up and speak against something that he believes is wrong . ’ |
| 21 | The Devil was an invention , he claimed , that prevented us from taking responsibility for our own destiny . |
| 22 | One thing we did know for sure was that it was not keep-fit exercises that we needed but homes that were ‘ fit ’ to live in and incomes or benefits that prevented us from having to choose between dying from hypothermia or malnutrition ! |
| 23 | But it was something else that filled us with terror . |
| 24 | They are a bulwark against that dark night : the candle that protected us in childhood . |
| 25 | The other issue that concerns us in Wales is the future of the 4th Volunteer Battalion the Welsh Regiment . |
| 26 | In stressing the challenges that face us in health and safety it is not to ignore the environmental challenge however we recognize it needs to be considered much more widely so that our resources can be most effectively targeted . |
| 27 | I always look forward to doing the show 'cause we meet all our friends that watch us on television , do n't we Jeffrey ? |
| 28 | Our house backed on to Cefn Leyshon , part of the ridge of Mynydd Eglwysilian that separated us from Senghenydd . |
| 29 | I 'm behind that glass that separated us from Pike that night on the Common . |
| 30 | We always promote the sons-of-bitches that kick us in the ass ! ’ |