Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Commenting on the criticisms , a Scottish Prison Service spokesman said last night : ‘ We do believe in good industrial relations and we certainly hope the unions will be willing to work with us to that end . ’ |
| 2 | He is not afraid to come before us in this book as a full-blown figure , someone who is quite recognizable ( from earliest school letters and the accounts of Kirkpatrick ) as ‘ the real Lewis ’ but who is also , for the first time , ‘ found ’ as an artistic voice . |
| 3 | er slung on us from another department . |
| 4 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 5 | He was convinced that , in the words of the Barmen Declaration which he with others drafted in May 1934 in opposition to the German Christians , ‘ Jesus Christ as he is attested to us in Holy Scripture is the one Word of God , which we have to hear , and which we have to trust and obey in life and in death . ’ |
| 6 | We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria . |
| 7 | Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case . |
| 8 | As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships . |
| 9 | A great fuss was made of us on that trip , according to my mother . |
| 10 | The dispute had also moved against us in another way . |
| 11 | Granny had been living with us for some time . |
| 12 | First , the one I have already drawn attention to — love is infused in us by revealing love . |
| 13 | We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday . |
| 14 | You see , he does n't just speak to us for small talk , he does n't just speak to while away the time with , with conversation . |
| 15 | The launch pad might be in the way , pushing on us from that end to stop us doing the natural thing which is to fall vertically through to the centre of the Earth . |
| 16 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 17 | We can use the skills and potential revealed to us by each archetype , but should recognize that they emanate from a source beyond our individual powers . |
| 18 | Now that we are beginning to understand the basic mechanisms of calcium release and entry , the next challenge is to describe the complex spatiotemporal patterns of calcium signalling revealed to us by single-cell imaging techniques . |
| 19 | Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’ |
| 20 | But there they were , four of them , just where they said they 'd be , in a clearing on a bend in the river , naked as nature intended , standing very upright which still did n't make them very tall and looking at us without any fear . |
| 21 | At the time of looking up we ascribe an experience of greenness to ourselves ; we consider the experience as something being undergone by us before any decision is taken about its veridicality . |
| 22 | The outer layer — what we look like — can work for us in another way too . |
| 23 | He went on : ‘ BR have not talked to us about limiting overtime , but it says a lot about the industry when limiting shifts to 12 hours a day is considered progress . ’ |
| 24 | Anyway yes , Whit 's going to us at some stage and I will wander round town while he 's doing his talk and then transcribe it |
| 25 | Elsie , who lived with us at that time , just sat with tears streaming down her face . |
| 26 | The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair . |
| 27 | ‘ I remember her staying with us at Carinish Court , ’ James was saying . |
| 28 | And if we get it right first time , we 'll have a satisfied client who will hopefully return to us for more work . |
| 29 | Who stare at us with incredulous scorn . |
| 30 | In my knowledge he has never spoken to us about this business . |