Example sentences of "[v-ing] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 2 | Because when people come to catch our train at twenty five to five i i it 's announcing us that train . |
| 3 | That old thing , it 's just driving us crazy a a and they could n't |
| 4 | I thought only about my beautiful cat as the huge engines purred and the round wheels revolved enabling us two-legged people to journey in comparative comfort through the streets of London town ! ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I 'm takin' us all out to the Cill Dara and we 'll have a fine dinner and a few drinks . ’ |
| 6 | Fundamentally , it is about embarrassment and shame and keeping us all in our place . |
| 7 | ’ Keeping us alive , ’ I said flatly . |
| 8 | ‘ I know not why he troubled — keeping us both standing about catching our death of cold ! ’ |
| 9 | Under dangerous conditions , his chief concern is for the welfare of the film stock and equipment , whereas mine is more for keeping us both alive … |
| 10 | We were firing this damn thing , then they started banging us some , . |
| 11 | The bamboo rungs , though wide and strong , were loosely lashed with unreliable cordage , and Lorne 's and my first simultaneous step onto the lowest rung resulted in it slipping its knots and depositing us both heavily in the mud — myself for the second time in less than twenty minutes . |
| 12 | All this could lead to as many as 50,000 jobs being created , saving us social services costs of £250 million . |
| 13 | it was costing us two pound fifty per week |
| 14 | We still charge the same interest rate that the bank would do because of course it 's costing us that from from the bank on our own funds . |
| 15 | So they did n't pay sixteen fifty and that 's costing us thirty five quid . |
| 16 | Well , I do n't suppose this contract 's costing us twenty-one million , but it 's costing us several million , and I would hate to think that er , any of that is being wasted , or not spent in the best possible way , and I would therefore recommend , chair , that we refer the matter of the facilities management contract to the budget review sub-committee for consideration of the way it 's not being implemented . |
| 17 | and it was costing us ten quid a month for the newspapers |
| 18 | Well , I do n't suppose this contract 's costing us twenty-one million , but it 's costing us several million , and I would hate to think that er , any of that is being wasted , or not spent in the best possible way , and I would therefore recommend , chair , that we refer the matter of the facilities management contract to the budget review sub-committee for consideration of the way it 's not being implemented . |
| 19 | Morpurgo precious near writing us both off in that bloody car crash . |
| 20 | The ride itself was reasonably uneventful , a marvellous tailwind pushing us all the way to Royston for the first seventy miles , then pushing us back to Royston for the next hundred miles . |
| 21 | Across the Sound of Harris the going was rough ; we had a large following sea with waves aided by the wind and the flood around Berneray , pushing us both from behind and from a broad reach angle . |
| 22 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
| 23 | In order to get a job at the end of the war , she and Siegfried need to obtain what she calls a ‘ Persil-Schein certificate denazifying us whiter than white ’ ( 79/473 ) . |
| 24 | The closing part of this chapter will raise a number of these issues with a view to alerting us all to the realities against which aspirations have to be aligned , if not reconciled . |
| 25 | This is causing us great concern . |
| 26 | ‘ We see it as necessary to take unilateral steps to defend our interests as this is causing us economical damage , ’ he said . |
| 27 | ‘ KITS now has weak middle management and poor internal communication ; that 's causing us big problems . |
| 28 | The water sprays off him that his mother 's screaming at him for soaking us all . |
| 29 | He knew virtually nothing about European federalism , but here was Mrs Thatcher warning us that political union was on the cards . |
| 30 | Warning us all about this , so well I thought well if they warn us , something must be good here , if they 're warning us that it 's bad you know . |