Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet with its residual gentility , its variegated forest of a garden where we had practical botany lessons , and the original Victorian mansion building with its labyrinth of poky rooms and winding staircases , it must have seemed that the convent was an accidental inheritance , never really meant for us , and thereby reminding us that we had come into our own ; we had by right something more than had once been intended for us . |
| 2 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 3 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 4 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 5 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 6 | I think we all feel we would like more central capital funding , but without it , it 's quite proper that we make er the best of use of the , of the assets we 've got , and we were n't using all our estate as effectively as we might , so for the last few years , we 've had a very vigorous programme of identifying land and buildings that are no longer required , and putting them on the market and thereby enabling us to build new facilities . |
| 7 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 8 | At times , it 's hard for the romantic aspects of our job alone to sustain us . |
| 9 | ‘ If you had only given us the Law : Dayenu ! … |
| 10 | ENOUGH TO DRIVE US ALL BANANAS |
| 11 | ‘ I hope you 're sober enough to drive us all home , that 's all . ’ |
| 12 | This seemed a far more promising environment , and we quickly accepted the couple 's invitation to abandon our base in Makassar and move in with them in Bira , since it would clearly take many more weeks of negotiating before we could be sure of coming up with a prahu , and a crew , reliable enough to carry us eastwards . |
| 13 | Is this bridge still strong enough to carry us all ? |
| 14 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 15 | The deictic elements and terms are constantly helping us to sort from possible contexts , helping us to move from symbolic meaning to some kind of reconstructed indexical meaning . |
| 16 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 17 | But they were tiny amounts of money , and only to kick-start us , to get that first film made . ’ |
| 18 | The thought of doing so appalled us , but there are regulations . |
| 19 | Erm so quite apart from fro from that , this approach to the whole question concentrating on parental investment and female choice would not only make us sensitive to female choice in the sense of either submitting to a male or not but secondly it would make us er wonder what happened even after a female had mated and we could predict could n't we that females ought to be discriminating abou about the subsequent fate of any fertilized erm zygote and indeed there 's plenty of evidence to show that human females highly discriminated and far from passive even after they 've been fertilized . |
| 20 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 21 | It will not only knock us around on the slightest whim ; but because of its size as a mature horse , it may become dangerous for us and others to handle . |
| 22 | These broad themes taken together led us to put forward a proposal for a anew divorce law in our book Grounds for Divorce . |
| 23 | It only got us the £15 at The Marquee for doing a show for Radio London , the old pirate radio station . |
| 24 | Tinka presented a course of work for backpain control , which not only got us ‘ tightening our tummies ’ and protecting our backs , but opened up Medau to a new and very large community of back-pain sufferers . |
| 25 | As they queued to pay , each of them was told : ‘ We ca n't add up your bill , so make us an offer ! ’ |
| 26 | But we do not claim that we have reached the ‘ vernacular ’ , or the most casual of possible styles , for any informant ( although some reports on our work have stated that we have ) : we merely claim that our data is rich and variable enough to enable us to classify styles on the stylistic continuum in an extremely well motivated way . |
| 27 | The fact that manufacturer B produced a safer razor after the razor in question had been supplied by manufacturer A is not enough to enable us to say that manufacturer A's razor was defective . |
| 28 | But it is nowhere near enough to enable us to do without cumulative selection altogether . |
| 29 | The opening of a poem is obviously important because there is no previous discourse through which to interpret it except for the title , but this is not precise enough to enable us to assign the proper indexical meaning to the deictic elements and terms . |
| 30 | That 's what I find so insulting : they are constantly using us to sell things . |