Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] us [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |
| 2 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
| 3 | Now only the deserted mine stores , gunpowder huts and relics of old machinery remind us of this former industrial occupation of the valleys and hills . |
| 4 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 5 | This analysis lifts us above such complications of hedonism as having to measure degrees of pleasure or distinguish the higher from the lower . |
| 6 | We will also provide pastoral support to help those already in mission to function more effectively and we hope to do some more pastoral training to help us in this area of work . |
| 7 | Officer or the Civil Power warn us of that . |
| 8 | That she , who has always denied any further consequences of their evil — ‘ A little water clears us of this deed : /How easy is it then ! ’ |
| 9 | God bless Mummy , Daddy , all our family , those throughout the world ; Keep all Evil from our home , And by the great mercy defend us From all the perils and dangers of this night , amen |
| 10 | If broadcast worship links us into that universal cycle of prayer and that reality , then it brings us closer to the presence of God . |
| 11 | You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see . |
| 12 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 13 | The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer : |
| 14 | Above a miniature bergschrund , a slabby groove sporting a teasing overlap led us to another intriguingly smooth corner . |
| 15 | The first beatitude shocks us with this blunt realization that true happiness is reserved for children and the poor . |
| 16 | We need that one performance to get us over this losing streak . |
| 17 | Paying by direct debit is one way to assist us in that aim . |
| 18 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |