Example sentences of "[noun] [v-ing] us [prep] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 2 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 3 | Life was not quite a state of nature or a question of the survival of the fittest , but in times of no food parcels the partition separating us from that state was unpleasantly thin and even at the best of times it was thin enough to be able to hear most of what went on on the other side . |
| 4 | We intend to place the money in our building fund and it is also a faith-building experience for us to see God blessing us in this way . |
| 5 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 6 | On Wednesday David Howell , the Energy Secretary , was forced to withdraw the threat of pit closures and on Thursday we woke up to a dreadful press accusing us of ignominious surrender . |
| 7 | ‘ I ca n't see your dad reaching us in this weather , even riding a horse . ’ |