Example sentences of "[prep] us as " in BNC.
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| 1 | Toby and I went to say thank you to Doris and she shouted jocularly after us as we went up the stairs , " When are you two going to get married ? |
| 2 | The Liberal Democrat candidate for Caerphilly yells after us as we sprint for a non-political platform . |
| 3 | A Farrah Fawcett blow-up doll with stuck-on smile breezed towards us as we stepped through parting plate-glass into the cool marbled elegance of the downtown Palo Alto ‘ Surgicentre ’ , one of a plethora of ‘ fast-food ’ medical practices surrounding Stanford University Hospital . |
| 4 | Swaledale opened up below us as we stepped down off the tops . |
| 5 | I do n't think they had any real ambitious expectations for any of us as long as we were happy . |
| 6 | Perhaps you think the Creator sent you here to dispose of us as you see fit . |
| 7 | The search for happiness , as we have seen , has been the quest of western civilization , as well as for all of us as individuals . |
| 8 | But it does , and the remedy lies partly in the hands of each one of us as well as in the hands of governments and large industries throughout the world . |
| 9 | Our Lady is a Mother herself therefore she sees each of us as her own child and will listen to our prayers and pleas . |
| 10 | Meanwhile I give below the dates of the next open days at Larksoken so that as many of us as possible can attend and strenuously put our case against nuclear power during the question time which normally precedes the actual tour of the station . ’ |
| 11 | It is common for us to imagine that others are going to be as critical of us as we are of ourselves . |
| 12 | Admittedly , one has to stoop down to smell a low shrub , but that is not such a problem for most of us as it is to struggle through to the middle of a bed . |
| 13 | As such , and also for most of us as being personally advantageous , we will put a high premium on democratic institutions . |
| 14 | ( Spinoza did , indeed , conceive of us as possessing a very mysterious kind of immortality as eternal elements in the divine consciousness , but he insists strongly that this has no bearings on how we should conceive the good life . ) |
| 15 | This had so infuriated Moustaine that he had decided to punish them , which meant the rest of us as well . |
| 16 | In green ties , red epaulettes and blue cummerbunds we lined up ; Marius , who had been chosen as the star recruit , would lead the parade and stand out in front of us as we received our képis . |
| 17 | The comment about the cost confused me ; I was used to thinking of us as being well-off . |
| 18 | But I 'd never thought of us as really having to worry about money that much ; certainly I was used to getting more or less what I wanted and had come to think of this virtually as a right , the way only children are apt to if their parents are anything other than actively hostile to them . |
| 19 | And Uncle Pumblechook , thinking of us as he always does , suggested this boy . |
| 20 | Do n't be put off by J. B. Priestley 's description of us as ‘ extraordinarily ugly ’ and ‘ really unpleasing to look at closely . ’ |
| 21 | ( China ) These examples coming from foreign cultures strike most of us as blatantly political , a part of the indoctrination of the young into the currently dominant values in these societies . |
| 22 | 1992 will mean changes affecting all of us as consumers , as employers or employees , or simply as citizens . |
| 23 | He has been ‘ governor ’ since 1947 and during this time has taken on most of us as recruits , acting not only as the boss but as adviser of finance , law , education and various other problems . |
| 24 | We spent two days travelling back to Royston with a guide who was as tired of us as we were sick of him . |
| 25 | And all of us as it were , set aside as a block , all the second homes as holiday homes and say , those are as it were , outside this enquiry , we 'll leave them there . |
| 26 | Are the aliens as frightened of us as we are of them ? |
| 27 | They ca n't make any profit out of us as they charge us a very reasonable rate . |
| 28 | The merely mortal Kevin Keegan had to suffer with the rest of us as Newcastle laboured to break down Barnsley 's proficient five-man defence . |
| 29 | I wonder how many visitors to Liverpool can say the same of us as I can say of Glasgow ? |
| 30 | they were just as scared of us as we are of them |