Example sentences of "us [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | yes well I 'd be rather surprised if you acceded to the idea , erm , yeah , can Mr help us on that this position ? |
| 2 | Even the least of these would give us vastly more sediment than we normally seem to find preserved for us in our stratigraphical record . |
| 3 | This , then , is the model which seems to us most appropriate for attempting empirically to answer our question : How can we measure the effects of client participation on the effectiveness of social work intervention ? |
| 4 | It 's so persuasively and convincingly argued — especially for those of us most happy to be convinced — that it 's a trifle dampening to be reminded that these are ‘ image patterns whose sexual significance may have been hidden from the poet on a conscious level … . |
| 5 | Reluctantly we had to stop as it was time to go to see Mr Hopkin , who made us most welcome . |
| 6 | We managed to visit her on our way back , however , and she was very pleased to see us and made us most welcome . |
| 7 | The painter has given us most interesting information of the types and uses of craft on the different lakes , but this is of secondary importance to his using the water as a well-lit stage to the main theme , the mountains . |
| 8 | An identification of books with enjoyment and a positive readiness to devote leisure time to reading seem to us wholly desirable outcomes of primary and secondary school experience . |
| 9 | Rhode & Schwarz take space to congratulate EBU on ‘ the great success achieved with RDS adding , not too disinterestedly , ‘ the fact that our equipment is supporting RDS in more than a thousand FM radio stations worldwide makes us rather proud ’ . |
| 10 | In fact , crickets and cicadas hear through stretched membranes rather like our own eardrums , but these are placed in what seem to us rather odd positions . |
| 11 | Mark and I have just been for a walk beyond Dalseattie , which was nice until the mist came down and began to make us rather damp . |
| 12 | ‘ Can you take us somewhat closer ? ’ he asked Googol . |
| 13 | It might seem to us somewhat peculiar , but we could not presume to challenge his belief — especially if his background , his education . |
| 14 | And let's face it ladies and gentlemen , legislation has governed us basically all our working lives has n't it ? |
| 15 | The task for a green turtle ( Figure 4.3 ) to find a tiny island in the expanse of the Atlantic Ocean , or a salmon to find the exact river tributary in which it was born appear to us exceedingly difficult . |
| 16 | The cumulative effect of these direct revelations of his intentions is to make us highly alert to Iago 's language when he is with other people . |
| 17 | I want to welcome obviously particularly er the order relating to Wales because it confers on Wales er one additional seat , giving us five altogether because of the rise in the Welsh population over the last ten years and that er although Wales was under represented under the previous erm er you know distribution of seats which gave us only four we will be slightly over represented when we have five because you simply ca n't have four and a half seats , it 's got to be one or the other but since the Welsh population is continuing to rise very rapidly then it is likely that that will be put right . |
| 18 | This seems to leave us only two options : either to believe anyway ( repressing our doubts and feeling guilty about those that remain ) or to give up faith . |
| 19 | In April two students from this school stood back to let an elderly disabled woman enter the Post Office before them and in June another student , who I am glad to say had been with us only two weeks , was spotted by two seniors through the window of the tap room of the Throstle 's Nest , helping a blind woman across the road . |
| 20 | We departed by the garden staircase , bringing with us only such articles of apparel and personal effects as could be worn or carried . |
| 21 | There is open to us only one course of action : we must quit the Confederation , consolidate and centralise our own power . |
| 22 | … though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ , yet there is for us only one God , … and there is only one Lord . |
| 23 | Even if there are so-called ‘ gods ’ ( like stable government , a large credit balance in the building society , a new video recorder or a newly fitted kitchen ) whether in heaven or on earth , and even though there are many of these ‘ gods ’ and ‘ lords ’ yet there is for us only one God 1 Cor 8:5 , 6a |
| 24 | Our telephone company was kind enough to bill us only one Belgian franc per call : we had a special arrangements because it was so much . |
| 25 | The 15 mile route took us only 50 yards along the main road before we turned off to cycle alongside an idyllic stream . |
| 26 | This can make us fiercely independent and afraid to ask for what we need because we fear it will not be given . |
| 27 | And if we look at it from that standpoint I think we can begin to see , perhaps , that actually we 're all programmers , some of us less clear about it than others . |
| 28 | In the symbolic construction of this community ( Cohen 1985 ) boundary images of inside and outside were elaborated to an intensity , making us crucially aware and ‘ conscious … of dirt that has ambiguously got onto the wrong side of the frontier ’ ( Leach 1976 : 61 ) . |
| 29 | And when my grandfather came in he always had a pocketful of these tips , and he would give us all some sixpences and some threepennies . ’ |
| 30 | You can lend us all some clothes to go home in , ’ Nutty decided . |