Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] us [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Old Wolsey loved to lead people by the nose , in particular his nephew and myself , and relished his little games of sending us unarmed into darkened chambers full of assassins . |
| 2 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 3 | Furthermore , this is probably one of those cases where social psychoanalysis can succeed in telling us more about this primitive superego-structure than can the clinical analysis of modern individuals unaided by cultural insights . |
| 4 | And I I really do n't think they have any business without consulting you and me , as the peoples that they represent , because I 'm I 'm a voter in North Yorkshire too , so I do n't think they have any business actually doing this without consulting us first of all . |
| 5 | But Moira says no it 's paperbacks only , insisted on lending us some of those Virgo Books and Woman 's Press and that , you know ‘ I Stand Here Ironing ’ and so on , could n't be bothered to try and make sense of them . |