Example sentences of "[noun] [prep] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 2 | Stan had played for Exeter against us in the previous three seasons ' fixtures and had invariably acquitted himself well in those matches , so Palace fans knew that Mr Maven 's transfer fee was well spent . |
| 3 | She had a foal with us during the dreadful winter of 1947 , and her behaviour became even worse , so much so that our good neighbour Mr Britton said she was n't fit for a young woman like me to work with and insisted I borrow his horse Bobby , a very even-tempered animal . |
| 4 | I was really impressed with that when he told a handful of us after the British Grand Prix that he was retiring at the end of the season . |
| 5 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 6 | I think it may well be necessary for Chapter to terminate his contract with us in the near future . ’ |
| 7 | Mohammed has provided this service for us in the Toubkal massif over many years . |
| 8 | Secondly , erm actually most of the rest of us on the governing body , or many of the rest of us on the governing body , even though we 're not parent Governors , are either now or have been parents of children at Banbury School , and that includes some of the political members too , so that erm I hope we all share the same interests . |
| 9 | Secondly , erm actually most of the rest of us on the governing body , or many of the rest of us on the governing body , even though we 're not parent Governors , are either now or have been parents of children at Banbury School , and that includes some of the political members too , so that erm I hope we all share the same interests . |
| 10 | Finally , at a sad time for Rosamund and myself , our sincerest thanks to so many rugby friends who have extended , through kind words and deeds , their sympathies to us on the tragic death , after a short illness , of our daughter Charlotte . |
| 11 | If his claim stands up , it establishes that at least part of the redshift in the light from some astronomical objects is not produced simply by their recession from us in the expanding Universe , and that blunts the cutting edge of the most important tool in observational cosmology . |
| 12 | We need only recognize that history is a method with no distinct object corresponding to it to reject the equivalence between the notion of history and the notion of humanity which some have tried to foist on us with the unavowed aim of making historicity the last refuge of a transcendental humanism : as if men could regain the illusion of liberty on the plane of the ‘ we ’ merely by giving up the ‘ I 's that are too obviously wanting in consistency . |
| 13 | The more in touch we are with our own life experience , the greater chance we will have of listening to God screaming his love for us in the ordinary events of our lives . |
| 14 | And from previous experience it was for some no longer a matter of automatic belief when Hitler declared that ‘ the Bolshevik hordes … will be smashed into oblivion by us in the coming summer ’ . |
| 15 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 16 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 17 | The statement before us on the Labour Party and the trade union links sets aside various recommendations on how we are going to cast our block vote at this year 's Labour Party Conference on this issue the options open to us are listed in this paper and I 'd like to make the following observations . |
| 18 | Given his background , he built up a very effective little unit , then he offered the whole thing to us after the Flying Doctor business . |
| 19 | Forming the intention to adopt beliefs only when they correspond to reality postpones the settlement of belief : we are forced to adopt rules which , while they are guaranteed to reveal reality to us in the long run , are not guaranteed to do so in the short run . |
| 20 | The next issue of Leads is scheduled for January 1990 and the copy deadline for you to submit information to us for the back page is 15 December 1989 . |
| 21 | We may not like or respect our superiors , for example , but they will have power over us just because they occupy a position above us in the organisational hierarchy . |
| 22 | Finally , will the Financial Secretary accept that there is no dispute between us about the sheer importance of ensuring quality in our public services ? |
| 23 | He had recently moved out to a house in the suburbs , and he sublet the house to us for the remaining three months on his lease . |