Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 2 | And we also have Monsieur Tran Van Lung here to thank , do we not , for reminding us of the great and unshakable dignity of the Orient . " |
| 3 | Nevertheless , as the World Bank and other august proponents of the perpetual increase of global trade never tired of reminding us throughout the 1980s , many First World countries began to step up protectionist measures in that decade . |
| 4 | We did some more research and we found out that in return for doing this you had to pay the minister a fine , so we found a minister who was very excited by the idea of marrying us in a seventeen century house , and in fact , on the morning of the wedding he was more worried about what he was wearing than what I was ! |
| 5 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 6 | If they do not ( and the track record is not good ) , they will be responsible for leading us up the wrong path ( again ) and they will create yet greater levels of exhaustion and disaffection . |
| 7 | Guest teacher was Joan Daniels , and we thank Kent display team for joining us despite the miserable weather . |
| 8 | So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives . |
| 9 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 10 | Knowledge of English literature is also of value in providing us with a common range of reference , and is of great importance in developing linguistic skills in Standard English . |
| 11 | He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s . |
| 12 | First , how dare she assume that our main goal is to walk , without consulting us in the first place . |
| 13 | I assume this can go ahead immediately , without tying us to a detailed course outline . |
| 14 | That twist is not limited to lumbering us with a sinful nature . |
| 15 | Mm well thanks for your thoughts Peter echoing what everybody else has said and er thanks for coming on telling us about the new trees as well . |
| 16 | The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human . |
| 17 | Sam , on occasion , played his part by taking us to the annual Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival — a wonderful treat . |
| 18 | Now , the world 's leading impartial computer industry report — produced by Dataquest — has confirmed it , by placing us as the Overall Leaders for Customer Satisfaction in their annual user poll . |