Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | LIGHT BULBS are a symbol of all that stands between us and the greenhouse effect . |
| 2 | When the moon lies between us and the sun , its light side is hidden , and we call this phase a new moon . |
| 3 | ‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs . |
| 4 | Probably many of us have treasured letters containing gems of spiritual guidance which have come to us when the writer could not , or during times of personal need or crisis . |
| 5 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 6 | Happiness is an emotional response that has become built into us and the horse for doing the right thing biologically . |
| 7 | Jock instilled into us that the end product of our training was for us to become independent in every way , operating either alone or in very small groups . |
| 8 | There is little to suggest to us that the housing or goods of Sussex labourers varied much from those of their late medieval predecessors . |
| 9 | Monsieur Truffer confirmed to us that the crew must have died instantly — if they had not already been killed by the anti-aircraft fire . |
| 10 | That way we 'll keep him from getting between us and the Ridgery . ’ |
| 11 | The crowd gathered round us and the atmosphere was marvellous . |
| 12 | We heard it slam behind us and the key turn in the lock . |
| 13 | When the bed collapsed under us and the girl 's shrieks could be heard in the taproom below , the landlord came up again shouting abuse through the door , but I ignored him . |
| 14 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 15 | ‘ You know what will happen to us if the book is not found , ’ snarled Dashwood . |
| 16 | It seems to us that the Bill would be open to criticism if it had to rely on provisions such as those in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 17 | ‘ It is just not practical to have 80 homeless people living here with one warden looking after them and it seems to us that the council have just shot into this without thinking . ’ |
| 18 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 19 | It seems to us that the House of Lords today might come to another conclusion . |
| 20 | The jury may in some cases put two and two together , but it seems to us that the effect of section 58 is such that the balance of fairness between prosecution and defence can not be maintained unless proper comment is permitted on the defendant 's silence in such circumstances . |
| 21 | Over to our left , in the field that lay between us and the road , was the shape of a horse . |
| 22 | There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time |
| 23 | Now , said Ray , the work has ‘ helped us narrow down the source rock to one or two possibilities , and it has indicated to us that the source rock does not vary across the region . ’ |
| 24 | Nothing can come between us and the love of God made visible in Christ Jesus our Lord . |
| 25 | It 's something we must put behind us and the time to start is in winter conditions . |
| 26 | So promise thou 'll come to us when the year is up . |
| 27 | If you do so you must repay to us immediately the amount by which your withdrawal exceeded the amount available and if you fail to do this we may debit any other account or accounts you may have . |
| 28 | It does seem to us that the impetus is lost if the library committee is either unable or unwilling to continue its work or if key individuals in the project subsequently leave the school . |
| 29 | But she ministered to us as the tape-recorder whirred . |
| 30 | They come to us because the manufacturer or retailer wishes to take advantage of exposure in what is simply the best and biggest fishkeeping magazine in the UK . |