Example sentences of "us [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | What does this tell us about a biblical attitude regarding our partner 's body in the marriage relationship ? |
| 2 | The Legenda tell us about a few miracles that he is supposed to have performed , but otherwise he seems to have lived a fairly uneventful outward life . |
| 3 | Sitting at a counter surrounded by the fulsome figures of the Boo Yaa Tribe , with his goatee beard and black stetson hat , he tells us about a party he 's giving at his home in Chicago . |
| 4 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 5 | In other words , it was costing us about a pound an hour in water . |
| 6 | Given the favourable non-wage labour cost which the minister told us about a moment ago , how does he justify the enormous discrepancy in wages between England and Wales as an average and areas like South Wales and Northumberland where average weekly earnings are up to sixty five pounds less than the average and will he explain to us why the government is not tackling huge wage differentials in this country ? |
| 7 | Yeah , somebody had told us about a place to go to , asking the bloody earth they were ! |
| 8 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 9 | Waiting to tell us about a victory for Bicester over Milton in the Hellenic League premier cup ; Bicester two , they 're going so well at the moment , Milton nil ; Charlie Rawling . |
| 10 | Incidentally , it will cost us about an extra eight thousand pounds just to do the trial in . |
| 11 | God is not as interested in getting us through a conflict as he is in how we respond to it . |
| 12 | Hemingway takes us through a hurricane which is predicted , which comes very near but finally misses his home . |
| 13 | From here , boatmen took us through a dog-leg cave where refracted light gleamed strangely blue in the water . |
| 14 | Part of the inner route takes us through a narrow gap between a promontory of Fetlar called the Ness of Urie , and a small skerry which has a patch of grass on top . |
| 15 | When low down it seems to flash various colours , because its light is coming to us through a thick layer of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 16 | Despite these facts there may be a case for a short-term course of tablets , or the occasional use of a tablet to help us through a particularly difficult situation and to help build confidence . |
| 17 | The author does a sterling job in painstakingly assembling a large corpus of evidence from a vast variety of sources , taking us through a welter of contemporary descriptions and extrapolating what are almost invariably convincing conclusions from the visual evidence . |
| 18 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |
| 19 | The fact is that Orwell 's route takes us through a largely white part of England . |
| 20 | He led us through a gate and into a perfect little rose garden . |
| 21 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 22 | I imagine he is impressed and that he will invite us for a coffee after , but when I look again he is gone . |
| 23 | So , the businessman goes across the road to the people running the schools , and says , ‘ These are the jobs we want filled , if you can teach the children these skills we will give them priority if they come to us for a job when they leave . ’ |
| 24 | Or the more punchy ‘ How would you like to buy some shares in Gibbs Building Contractors — ‘ Do n't pick your contractor/ By throwing a dice/ Bring GIBBS into the game/ Ask us for a price ’ . ’ |
| 25 | It is a growing problem partly and one that is likely to be with us for a long time . |
| 26 | It is likely to be with us for a long time to come . ’ |
| 27 | And I remember to this day , though I was so small , that mother was very angry with me , for unclothing myself before the servant , who was a very nice girl who had been with us for a long time . |
| 28 | Do join us for a glass of cognac or champagne . |
| 29 | She 'd been with us for a year when we went for a day 's walk in the country . |
| 30 | ‘ People try to take us for a ride from time to time . |