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We agreed that this was certainly the case, but she shook her head and, putting on an uncharacteristically sour expression, said, "No, we say, he deserved it," as if she were speaking of Robespierre and the guillotine; after all, this was the woman who earlier had assured us, with a benign smile, that the living members of the Académie française were "all dead".
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"If it's good, we'll remember it tomorrow," he'd assure us with a smile.
This multimillionaire is cutting with gusto while assuring us, with bored impatience, that "we're all in this together" – but only he fails to see the irony.
Lodge resolves the scientist's issues too neatly, assuring us with the old comic irony that it's "always a mistake, to suppose that you know what's going on inside anyone else's head".
"I think we're all aware of the fact that nothing can assure us with 100percentt accuracy that every player is going to be eligible," the Little League spokesman Lance Van Auken said.
As Van Auken, the Little League spokesman, said in December, "I think we're all aware of the fact that nothing can assure us with 100percentt accuracy that every player is going to be eligible".
Hussain, Khan, Ali and Deen have put their heads above the parapet in the hope of stimulating a wider acknowledgement among Muslims that there is a problem within Islam, however much political leaders assure us – with the best of intentions – that terrorism is either "nothing to do with Islam" or a "distortion of Islam".
Wagner trusted in a cyclical return of life, which is why when Valhalla burns and the Rhine overflows at the end of Götterdämmerung, the orchestra assures us with one of its recurrent motifs that the world has been cleansed and redeemed by love.
Whereas Blake critiqued and questioned the church's reach in his poems, Bono seems to have taken to the pulpit instinctively, stripping his proclamations of any personality or grit: "Nothing to stop this being the best day ever," he assures us, with Sunday-morning certainty.
And all we're asking is that you assure us with testing that we're safe".
This practice could conceivably be taken too far and the New Republic assures us with scant evidence that it has been but that some people might be overly concerned about the emotional well-being of those who have suffered trauma is not high up on my daily list of things to get upset about.
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The phrase "assured us with" functions as a verb phrase where "assured" is the verb, "us" is the direct object, and "with" is a preposition. However, as noted by Ludwig, this construction is grammatically incorrect. The correct forms are "assured us that" or "assured us of".
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