Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] [prep] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 2 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 3 | Elinor said , pointing to a figure marching towards us along the riverside . |
| 4 | We had sergeants and inspectors jumping on us for the least little thing and very often trying to get us into trouble , whereas young fellows learning the job , what we needed was assistance . |
| 5 | There should be a car waitin' fur us at the airport when we get in to Lima . |
| 6 | From our balcony we could see the great Bugis sailing prahus scything past us into the harbour . |
| 7 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 8 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |
| 9 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 10 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |
| 11 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that , if the Government were to introduce proposals to toughen up sentencing policy — to impose stiffer sentences — we could look forward to Opposition Members agreeing with us for the first time ? |
| 12 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 13 | We left in a strange , silent huff , the women running after us into the street and trying to pull us back inside . |
| 14 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |
| 15 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |