Example sentences of "us more [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , little things which affect our vanity often influence us more strongly than major things which could affect our health . |
| 2 | It was an experience that bound us more closely than ever . |
| 3 | He gets his conquests without fighting for them , and every one moves in upon us more closely . |
| 4 | In this stubborn bent towards the hopefully open-ended ( which he lost before the end ) , Pound may legitimately seem to us more indelibly American than his fellow expatriate , Eliot . |
| 5 | Family , friends or working colleagues see us more clearly than we realise . |
| 6 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 7 | Gradually our life at Moor House lost its holiday feeling , and as we took up our usual habits and regular studies again , St John sat with us more often . |
| 8 | Since Frank 's departure , Tom had played cards with us more often and Terry and Bri started teaching me how to play poker . |
| 9 | The declared results remind us more readily of the spoiled world of Genesis 3 than those of Genesis 1 or 2 : ‘ The fear of you and the dread of you shall be upon every beast of the earth , and upon every bird of the air , upon everything that creeps on the ground , and all fish of the sea ’ ( 9.2 ) . |
| 10 | It 's certainly exciting for us to think that you will soon be with us more permanently . |
| 11 | Those who seek to repair the damage caused by the creation of more wealth are only locking us more deeply into the source of the evil ; and Labour 's submission to this cruel belief robs it of any claim to significant opposition to the existing order . |
| 12 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 13 | ‘ Think of it this way , ’ he urged , ‘ we are all mourners following a funeral procession and some of us , those of us more directly concerned with the departed , have dropped behind to tie a shoe-lace . |
| 14 | It makes us more fully alive , like the sap in a vine that brings life to the branches . |
| 15 | ‘ By subjugating us more quickly ? ’ |