Example sentences of "us like the " in BNC.
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1 | I also visited the Sadlers Wells Ballet , sitting up in the gallery with friends for one shilling and sixpence in old money and watching the Corps open up before us like the flowers whose waltz they were dancing , and that talented new ballerina Miss Margot Fonteyn taking her first curtain calls . |
2 | ‘ AND THANKS to A&M — for treating us like the rock stars we 're not , ’ grumbles Dan into the mic , between songs at CBGB 's . |
3 | Grand Slam committee administrator Bill Babcock said : ‘ None of us like the situation , but there is undue pressure on him , and we have decided to exempt him from the rule on press conferences for this match , and only this match . ’ |
4 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
5 | The tunnel entrance had grown big , the stone arch of it rearing up ahead of us like the open jaws of some petrified monster . |
6 | " Little acts of kindness , Little deeds of love , Make the world around us Like the Heaven above . " |
7 | And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ? |
8 | Over the span of the years their young faces ( most of them were in their very early twenties ) , alert and clean-shaven in sharp contrast to the beards of the poilus and the fierce , straggly mustachios of their officers , seem to us like the faces of the future . |
9 | would bring us like the Wednesday , that would be my birthday actually the Wednesday |
10 | Everyone will be avoiding us like the plague if we take this there with us ! |