Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've received help from the Countryside Council for Wales towards the costs of writing and research , and we have a Welsh Office grant to enable us to translate it into Welsh . |
| 2 | We 've received help from the Countryside Council for Wales towards the costs of writing and research , and we have a Welsh Office grant to enable us to translate it into Welsh . |
| 3 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 4 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 5 | Occasionally a garishly painted truck passed us , raising a cloud of dust , and away to the west , hanging over us and clearly visible now that the clouds had lifted , the coastal range of the cordilleras towered pale and trembling in the heat . |
| 6 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 7 | ‘ After the birth Tony and I both felt very shaky and the midwife got us some tea right away , while they were tidying me up , just to calm us down . |
| 8 | Kerry and Joanne took time out to pop across from their busy stand to see us . |
| 9 | ‘ Our support drives us on , but we drive them on too by our performances . |
| 10 | The Tisseran itself is now in the Bate Collection ( illus.4 ) : its painted and gilded case reminding us of the harpsichord the princess is playing in The music party . |
| 11 | Derry from EMF put a frog down Morrissey 's shirt and Jim Bob off of Carter taped snooker on his Bernard Manning videos then Morrissey got dead upset and his mum asked us to leave . |
| 12 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 13 | This seems to me to be a highly , high responsible budget bringing us closer and closer to a position where we will eventually reach . |
| 14 | His only son had been killed in a car accident so Mum expected us to make a fuss of him . |
| 15 | St Mawgan Radar asked us to climb to 2500 feet through the MATZ . |
| 16 | ‘ However , we will continue with the appeal to raise money to enable us to run the scanner . |
| 17 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 18 | Olazabal 's dislike of US Open courses and their preparation is well-known , but he said today : ‘ This course offers us much more hope than in previous years . ’ |
| 19 | Before he arrived Mum made us children bustle about making the place ‘ spic an' span ’ to create a better impression on the visitors who were expected to drop by to pay their last respects to the memory of a notable local character . |
| 20 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 21 | Debt and dear money got us into it and , until we break debt 's grip , we shall never get out of it . |
| 22 | He 's been breeding Herefords for 45 years and it breaks his heart to see us importing rubbish from overseas . |
| 23 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 24 | We need YOUR support to enable us to continue with our work . |
| 25 | We need YOUR support to enable us to continue with our work . |
| 26 | ‘ It 's not been easy for the chairman and his board seeing us stuck on the bottom of the table , ’ said Clough . |
| 27 | As we have seen , the removal of a core-electron requires an energy characteristic primarily of the atom concerned , so this technique offers us the ability to identify the constituent atoms of any sample . |
| 28 | Determination , hard work , commitment and family unity got us where we are today . |
| 29 | ‘ The agent hass stopped us , but it iss not his fault , really ; it iss the Earl 's , ’ explained Jill , careful to be fair , ‘ though it iss really the people who leave the litter who are to blame , not even the Earl . |
| 30 | A concentrated assessment helped us focus on teaching procedures and materials more effectively and the problems we uncovered could be tackled immediately as we had direct access to the Subject Assessor ’ . |