Example sentences of "us [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back on the country roads there was more time to play with the switches , and wonder how we might stop the heated seats giving us sticky shirts ( no luck , though Swedish efficiency doubtless means that this was our fault ) . |
| 2 | We wondered how we might stop the heated seats giving us sticky shirts . |
| 3 | We are a bit tired of getting up early ( breakfast 7.30 , start teaching at 8.30 — and that 's a concession to us lazy foreigners , since teaching starts at 8 normally here ) so Comrade Wu kindly arranged for us to have breakfast in our rooms today — the first opportunity for a lie-in we 've had ! |
| 4 | We will divide our people — some to the Rorim and the Circle , and some to the outer wall to give us advance warning . ’ |
| 5 | So far we 've only got Roy Castle , David Hamilton , and Russell Grant ( why did n't he give us advance warning about last season ? ) |
| 6 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |
| 7 | on long play and it lasts us eight hours . |
| 8 | ‘ She is a grown woman now , she has changed a great deal since she last came to stay with us eight years ago , ’ said Mrs Riddiford after meeting Kylie in her hotel after the concert . |
| 9 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 10 | Our morning walk along the cliffs gave us terrific views of the secluded white sand bays dotted along the coastline followed by a few hours on Pompièrre beach where the locals meet to picnic . |
| 11 | Although the band had chosen where they wanted to record the album — Compass Point in Nassau , Bahamas — they had no one to record with us usual collaborators Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , producers behind the laid-back groove of ‘ Pills'N'Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , were tied up with commitments to their Perfecto label . |
| 12 | Naturally , for the people who gave us oral fixation and penis envy , among other contributions to psycho-babble , this is far too simplistic an idea . |
| 13 | ‘ Things are still unclear and until somebody gives us definite information we wo n't be drawn into speculating . |
| 14 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 15 | The point is , mathematical notation gives us complete liberty , unless it explicitly states otherwise . |
| 16 | God has given us complete autonomy , that is self-government , the government of ourselves . |
| 17 | To become a JANET site in our own right would cost approximately £10,000 initial registration fee , but this would give us complete control over the security and budget of the communication system , for the free exchange of non-commercial information between research institutions , which is not currently possible . |
| 18 | As this approach dominates US political science , and as the US model was transplanted into Japan during the Occupation , it is , in some ways , not surprisingly the dominant perspective . |
| 19 | I would like to share with you a burden for prayer as I feel it is only right that all Christians should know about anything that would deny us total freedom . |
| 20 | I 'd never spoken to one till we had Louise , you know , which is not fair on us normal people … |
| 21 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 22 | Where does all this leave us present-day women ? |
| 23 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 24 | We are wearing dark clothing , giving us near-terrorist status , here in the land of safe pastel fluffiness . |
| 25 | The legislation was flawed not by the requirement of sanctions , claimed Bush , but by the rigid manner in which they were to be imposed , which would " harm US economic interests and provoke friendly countries who are essential to our efforts to resist Iraqi aggression " . |
| 26 | White House chief of staff John Sununu objected on the grounds that a reduction in gas emissions would freeze US economic growth . |
| 27 | Of us suffering children , under such strain , |
| 28 | When the grandmother was in her eighties and widowed , ‘ we went religiously one of us each day , one sister and another , each day . |
| 29 | Millions of words are fired at us each day by politicians and journalists expressing their point of view , and by the advertising and public relations industries trying to sell us things . |
| 30 | Especially since we have up to ninety two planes flying over us each day … |