Example sentences of "[conj] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There may be yet more complicated objects than us on other planets , and some of them may already know about us . |
| 2 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 3 | You will quickly realise , however , that it is a fact of life that the Magpies and the Mackems , despite having had consistently poorer teams than us over the last decade , will always grab the headlines . |
| 4 | ‘ Somebody did tell me he thought they might be a tiny bit stronger than us at the moment . |
| 5 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 6 | There 's nothing higher than us for miles , or whatever you call those things ! |
| 7 | Er the housing associations approached both have better records than us for rent collection and better records on void times . |
| 8 | Is he paying more than us for apparatus cos I think they 've bought one phone but the other one |
| 9 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 10 | You 're going to have more time than us by Christmas . |
| 11 | ‘ If for any reason the runners were able to go faster than us in the marathon , I 'm sure they would organise it differently for them . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 13 | We have spent thousands of citizens ' tax payers ' money on that case and the Eastern Board have spent more than us in defending it . |
| 14 | We are better than other countries in some things and they are better than us in others . |
| 15 | A Dutchman in Volkswagen ( I have always had a soft spot for the Dutch ) gave it a push in the rear from time to time , but I shrank from asking him to push it and us to one of the Channel ports . |
| 16 | Mum and Dad did n't find out about Flupper and us for more than a week . |
| 17 | The international team , who are coaches and hosts by day , don their entertainer hats and launch into shows and competitions put together by the staff and holidaymakers , who would surprise themselves and us with their undiscovered talent . |
| 18 | ‘ And us with it ? ’ |
| 19 | If we stay put they can stay up there and fry the valley bottom , and us with it . |
| 20 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 21 | But an exchange puts both them and us into a geographical funnel towards the meeting point . ’ |
| 22 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |
| 23 | You know this whole of idea of things and ritual being the holy and that things in the ritual there yes , there are sacred symbols and they need to be handled in that , that , that sense of sacredness , but the that which makes them sacred is the person , our Lord and us in communion with him and with each other and it seems to me that wherever that happens there is sacrament . |
| 24 | which should be grate , because , he 's mum , I mean we love her dearly , but she has to go to Lenny 's in , dinner time and us in the evening every year |
| 25 | A timetable covering the completion of our work and of the transaction under the terms of the engagement will be drawn up and agreed between the directors and us by [ date ] . |
| 26 | Aye , she does n't bother but us in the next room , ah , bother us . |
| 27 | Now did you say you 've got the same trouble as us with the conden , condensa |
| 28 | You could see a band that plays the same type of music as us on TOTP but they would n't look like us … |
| 29 | Same year as us in college . |