Example sentences of "it [verb] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the early sixteenth century , Pope Leo X is on record as declaring : ‘ It has served us well , this myth of Christ . ’ |
| 2 | , production manager at the UK company , part of Courtaulds Packaging , said : ‘ It has enabled us to focus on areas of development for each individual in a controlled way . |
| 3 | IT manager said : ‘ ITED is a structured and disciplined procedure and it has enabled us to identify elements of training that may have been overlooked using more traditional appraisal methods . ’ |
| 4 | Without fear , we would be at a disadvantage ; but , because we fear ‘ Fear ’ , it becomes our master and stops us doing the very thing for which it has prepared us . |
| 5 | ‘ It has kept us alive for over two hundred years , ’ Dashwood told him . |
| 6 | But it has made us aware of the crusted , jewel-bright variety of Latin America behind things that more often lump its nations together . |
| 7 | But it has made us more productive and more of a team — we all have to co-operate and pull together just to keep our heads above water . ’ |
| 8 | It has stirred us to see the Africans raise their own fares , communally and by hard work . |
| 9 | We know that if , in the introduction of the council tax , the Government inflict on the British people what they did with the poll tax — the £10 billion that it has cost us , the increase in VAT to manipulate it and the innumerable changes to make it more acceptable — local government and the British people will face the same sort of inadequacies and misery . |
| 10 | ‘ We tried to save money by building economically , but it has cost us more in the long run . |
| 11 | It has given us experts , not wise men . ’ |
| 12 | Let us give thanks for the progress made in scientific research , for the luxuries and comforts it has given us , for the assistance in curing disease , with storing information and with improving communications . |
| 13 | But despite the laugh it has given us girlies at the expense of the hairy brigade , the material has its disadvantages . |
| 14 | And it has given us all a richer life . |
| 15 | and if I did n't say it strong enough , as Angela 's done , it has given us a real basis to work on Don and it is appreciated . |
| 16 | Thanks to our parliamentary system and the stability that it has given us , the British people have been spared the horrors of revolution , civil war and invasion for more than 300 years . |
| 17 | It has given us all a lift . ’ |
| 18 | Well we 've been very concerned to try and develop our policies and services and we find this report very helpful because it has given us a very clear lead as to the sort of things which are necessary , and in many ways it 's supporting the ideas which we 've had . |
| 19 | Just consider the idea that fear is a hungry creature that wants to feed off our energy and see how easily it has trained us to provide that nourishment at the push of an idea . |
| 20 | As the great machine of modernity spins remorselessly round , it has spun us away from the centre of social existence — community life , government , commerce , industry , education , welfare , leisure — to the peripheral margins of societal life . |
| 21 | It has put us in the position of villains , whereas the Secretary of State is the villain because he will not pay . |
| 22 | Neighbour Dave Ward added : ‘ I hate the programme , even though I suppose it has put us on the map . ’ |
| 23 | For industrial society has made a strange covenant with humanity : it has promised us that we can exist independently of nature , in the gilded cocoon of a technosphere that is no longer tuned to the archaic necessities of seed-time , harvest and the vagaries of the seasons . |
| 24 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 25 | ‘ If the place is guarded , ’ said Cadfael , meeting the abbot 's questioning eye , ‘ whatever it has to tell us can safely be left until daylight . |
| 26 | In fact , it may enhance our pleasure if it has helped us to snatch success from the jaws of failure ! |
| 27 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |
| 28 | There were plenty of hands for your Caledonian Canal , but it has taken us three months to assemble a workforce here at St Catherine 's Dock . |
| 29 | The Renaissance was a rebirth of the Alexandrian-Roman spirit , and it has taken us on the same path . |
| 30 | His personal experience is that ‘ God 's ‘ no divorce' ’ rule is not harsh , but merciful , in that it has forced us to examine and resolve conflicts and enter a stronger , richer stage of marriage . |