Example sentences of "[prep] us [adv] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headland looming ahead of us out of the growing daylight would be the one immediately to the west of the cottage . |
| 2 | Thank you very much , please do stay with us either for the whole afternoon , or certainly for the next |
| 3 | We should be getting at least to March all supplied from us now for the next three or four months it should all be from us . |
| 4 | MY LORD JOHN by Georgette Heyer Arrow , £4.99 AT THE time of her death , Georgette Heyer was working on a large-scale historical sequence based on the character of John , Duke of Bedford , third son of Henry IV , and known to us primarily as the goody-goody prince of Shakespeare 's Henry IV . |
| 5 | ‘ Be it known , ’ declared the paraplegic , who had been paralysed irreparably in some nerve-eating attack by aliens , ‘ Õbe it known that some precious organs of the Venerable Dorn have been lost to us utterly during the vast lapse of time . |
| 6 | Now the selection of pupils was another gamble and they were allocated to us straight from the various flying training schools . |
| 7 | ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’ |
| 8 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 9 | Tricia noticed it too , for she put herself between us again on the front seat and I heard the giveaway click-clack from her pocket . |