Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] us " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 2 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 3 | Marie 's so pretty and lovely , I want everyone to see us , so they 'll say how grown up and lucky I am to have such a lovely girlfriend . |
| 4 | Nothing seems to have changed and the Government is doing nothing to support us . ’ |
| 5 | Our aim will be to understand and , where appropriate , to modify the potency of these feelings and the way we let them affect us when conflicts arise . |
| 6 | Let us learn to treat other people as we would like them to treat us . |
| 7 | It 's our work around heterosexism which makes a direct and daily challenge to them , and in a sense this work is a pure act of coming out in that it no longer allows them to treat us as one of the girls ( or boys ) who is really just like them . |
| 8 | As they approached and noticed the unlit chillim , one of them passed us her tinder , commenting with a smile that they 'd got here just in time for all of us : they needed a smoke , and we needed a light . |
| 9 | ‘ We must meet reverses boldly , not suffer them to frighten us , my dear . |
| 10 | When we reached Auckland we had no plan of action at all , and as we knew no-one there was no-one to meet us . |
| 11 | What we 've got to do is actually make them respect us . |
| 12 | These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities . |
| 13 | " I 'd like to go there , just you and me , no one watching over us , no-one minding us , or guarding us , or whatever . |
| 14 | If we fuck up , then we go back , hold our hands out and let them smack us . |
| 15 | But lead singer Bono vowed : ‘ We wo n't let them gag us . |
| 16 | Hey we 're going out and be , we we 're going to have them build us one , I mean er my intention is I might get Stuart or somebody to put the bricks at the bottom . |
| 17 | Everyone wants us to work and work all the time and not stop . |
| 18 | Earlier this year one of them approached us . |
| 19 | Only , we do n't make it too easy for them to find us . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ We 're headin' for the guys who 're doin' all the shootin' up ahead … the ones we hid from in the tunnel back there … they must be friends of his … maybe cops or somethin' … if Angel One did n't want them to find us … ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Shall I make us some tea ? ’ suggested Willie . |
| 22 | Someone lent us a carrycot and Tanith slept in that to start with , until she was big enough to go into her cot . |
| 23 | talking about I mean us six er pe peasants we 've got a landlord , you know , oh shall we go and kill him , he , he 's got all the authority , he 's got armed militia , the works , now to me he could have |
| 24 | I intend us to have a better record on inflation in the 1990s than in either the 1970s or the 1980s . |
| 25 | ‘ I registered us as Mr and Mrs Wyatt . ’ |
| 26 | While I got us some bread and butter and milk he sat on the floor with his great head bent , staring at the carpet and tracing its patterns with his forefinger . |
| 27 | I got us all of a piece , and we lay quiet . |
| 28 | After that I got us on to less dangerous ground , and I gave him a few tit-bits of intelligence , which was probably what he 'd been after . |
| 29 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ I got us out , anyway . |
| 30 | ‘ The same way I got us out of the alleyway when the grenade blew up . ’ |