Example sentences of "[vb -s] us [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So our having the tape-recorder is affecting the quality of Mrs Padmore 's life — which , however , has an indirect effect on the quality of our life , given the I think not unreasonable premise that an improvement in the quality of someone else 's life offers us some kind of pleasure or satisfaction , or at any rate spares us discomfort or guilt ; though whether this is what I had in mind when I borrowed the tape-recorder this morning I think unlikely . |
| 2 | The high ball in the air at the back is one that causes us problems . |
| 3 | What primes us agents most is our own exclusive conference speech from the Leader . |
| 4 | As Naylor says , ‘ there is ample UK evidence which reinforces US studies to show that capacity to learn new skills , acquire knowledge and new attitudes in middle age does not decline sharply after one 's 40th birthday . ’ |
| 5 | Egypt accepts US talks plan . |
| 6 | Egypt accepts US talks plan . |
| 7 | Sexuality , for the celibate as well , remains a wonderful gift of God , given because he loves us so. , |
| 8 | All this hi-tech stuff just loses us money . ’ |
| 9 | Again , the Gardens about Hammersmith are as famous for Strawberries , Raspberries , Currants , Gooseberries , and such like ; and if early fruit is our Desire , Mr. Millet 's at North End , near the same place , affords us Cherries , Apricocks and Curiosities of those kinds , some months before the Natural Season . |
| 10 | She kisses us goodnight and says she 's had fun . |
| 11 | Karatzias , 39 , and partner Craigen Pappas are taking part in a £700,000 event against a field that includes US Masters champion Fred Couples , and former world No.1s Ian Woosnam and Bernhard Langer . |
| 12 | NINTENDO RAISES US PRICES |
| 13 | The Auvergnat evidence , thus , shows us bishops in context , some managing to dominate their diocese , others at odds with their clergy , or hampered by secular figures , most clearly by the outsider Chramn . |
| 14 | Surreptitiously photographed at very close quarters he shows us moments in the sand — moments private and not so private . |
| 15 | This is how he shows us mercy and enables us to be merciful in turn to others . |
| 16 | I mean we hardly went into another shop and yet , you see , we have a young chappie like yourself who comes to the Guild once every year and shows us slides of old Walsall , Walsall Wood , Aldridge , the local area , and he said I 'm not very good Ruth at talking but he he 'd got the slides you know , and it , it used to end up with me doing the commentary on Walsall Wood , because you stand on the of Walsall Wood , which is there now , and your Co-op was right on the corner which is why I call it the corner store and you see people congregated there , people met there and when I 'd been accused of the , we 'd been at the college or at other conferences and why ca n't we get Guild members today , well that was the breeding ground your shop , you see . |
| 17 | He shows us Johnson in a delighted state , thrilled because the ‘ entertainment here was in so elegant a style , and reminded my fellow-traveller so much of England ’ . |
| 18 | Thank you , Lord , that you control the work of public and private industry as it affects us day by day , in our homes , in our neighbourhoods , at work . |
| 19 | Home Office figures show each death costs us £750,000 in hospital treatment , police time , pensions , and insurance money . |
| 20 | And that costs us money . |
| 21 | on disability issues and they have n't been able to find anybody else , but what they 've said , despite extensive attempts the convention has not been able to obtain a replacement for this one , due to and buys us time . |
| 22 | In the current financial climate , which sees us wrestling with colleges managing their own budgets and , in our own authority , reeling from the outcome of poll-capping , the expenses involved in improving physical access are likely to be competing with numerous other worthy but expensive causes . |
| 23 | American curators were recommending German artists to American collectors in the mid-1980s and Grant now sees US buyers reinforcing natural German demand for Richter , Polke , Immendorf , Baselitz and Kiefer . |
| 24 | It may be difficult to persuade a television assembly worker whose plant in the United States has closed and relocated to Mexico that the maquila industry creates jobs in the United States , but it is not so difficult to persuade a worker who makes television components in a US factory that supplies an assembly plant in Mexico , that the maquila industry protects US jobs . |
| 25 | IBM TECHNOLOGY PRODUCTS UNIT GETS US DISTRIBUTORS |
| 26 | It represents a quantum leap that takes us way past our competitors . ’ |
| 27 | And he takes us , bad bargain that we are poor and miserable that we were , with nothing seemingly positive to offer , he takes us bag and baggage , he takes us with all our sin , with all our failure , with all our mistakes , he takes us with all that is , th th the clutters of our lives , he says you 're mine now . |
| 28 | Oliver Stone attacks US institutions in Talk Radio ( 18 ) . |
| 29 | His cynicism is understandable — the black humoured script depicts US soldiers as sadists and racists , hopelessly trying to find a rationale for a war that their country can not justify . |
| 30 | erm erm Brian calls us experts at the beginning of the programme erm everyone listening knows we ca n't all be experts of course on all these things , we 're just sort of amateurishly trying to be sensible on these questions . |