Example sentences of "but [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Your articles on women and workers make fascinating reading but provide us with little hope that a movement for change is likely to come from these quarters . |
| 2 | I suppose someone could have come from Royston , perhaps leaving after us but passing us in the mist to plan their ambush … ’ |
| 3 | but power us to the next disgrace . |
| 4 | But let us for the moment look at the word that signifies the process or action itself : the word kill . |
| 5 | That is a far off mystic goal , perhaps , but let us at least attempt to stretch our minds , looking briefly at just a few of these cycles , and of the indispensable parts they have to play in the maintenance of planetary life . |
| 6 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 7 | I suppose she thought that Greene would not ask us to confirm what she had said , but chide us for impropriety on the strength of her word alone . |
| 8 | And Lee and his girl-friend , Suzanne , drove up from Plymouth in time to miss it , but joined us for dinner at Browns . |
| 9 | ‘ When some rare Northern bird like the pine grosbeak is seen thus far south in the winter , he does not suggest poverty , but dazzles us with his beauty . |
| 10 | Well , he does come down — not to thump us but to love us in Jesus , to teach us the Christian way , and to take our sins and failures to the cross and to rise again in triumph for us all . |
| 11 | As it happens the quotation that ran in Tolkien 's mind when he considered this scene very much implies the dual nature of wickedness , but comes from the Lord 's Prayer : ‘ And lead us not into temptation ; but deliver us from evil . ’ |
| 12 | Our father who art in heaven hallowed be thine name , thy kingdom come , thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven , give us this day our daily bread and forgive us our trespasses as we forgive those who trespass against us and lead us not into temptation but deliver us from evil , for thine is the kingdom , the power and the glory for ever and ever amen . |
| 13 | Children the world over still repeat : ’ Lead us not into temptation , but deliver us from evil . ’ |
| 14 | And lead us not into temptation , but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom , the power and the glory , for ever and ever , Amen . |
| 15 | And lead us not into temptation , but deliver us from evil for thine is the kingdom , the power and the glory , for ever and ever , Amen . |
| 16 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 17 | Succumbing to temptation is our business , one might paraphrase , but delivering us from evil is God 's . |
| 18 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 19 | But join us in ninety seconds and we 'll have a crack at it . |
| 20 | but leaves us with a sense of the characters inhabiting a kind of vacuum or time warp . |