Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the show some of us crowded into the tiny lighting box as Pyke , in his denim dungarees and white T-shirt — he still had long hair — took his seat . |
| 2 | Fifteen minutes later , having banged and bumped our way up another track heading directly for the low hills , the two of us came to the small tin-roofed hut which I had imagined and there , standing before it , was the single link required to bring Balboa 's journey and mine into their final conjunction . |
| 3 | Our gesture was not really a religious one , for neither of us believed in the Roman Catholic faith and detested its oppressive hold on the Spanish people , particularly the poor . |
| 4 | The Masonic Religion should be by all of us initiates of the high degrees maintained in the purity of the Luciferian doctrine . |
| 5 | Three of us met at the Lesbian Sex and Sexual Practice Conference in London in 1983 . |
| 6 | The second aspect is more difficult for those of us engaged in the communicative enterprise . |
| 7 | Cos there 's too many of us to go in the little room . |
| 8 | Presumably most of us work for the same principal reason — in order to live — but the choice of job may be influenced more by necessity than choice . |
| 9 | This is great news for those of us suffering from the triple affliction of myopia , vanity and an aversion to handing out vast amounts of cash . |
| 10 | Therefore the only rational strategy for either of us to play on the 100th round will be DEFECT , and we can each assume that the other player will work that out and be fully resolved to defect on the last round . |
| 11 | And somehow , from the warmth we all feel for the soundtracks of our adolescence and the prevalent loathing some of us feel for the current torpor of the charts , he has managed to fashion something comically incendiary . |
| 12 | [ CHRISTINE HAMMOND ] In 1958 there was only one television in our street , and when the Lone Ranger made his weekly appearance it was like a mini-cinema in John Logue 's front parlour with about twenty of us clustered round the little walnut cabinet . |
| 13 | Yet we all of us swim between the outside world and the internal , trying to look at ourselves from the outside and also looking from the inside at the world , having a sense of ourselves and how we look that may be variable and dependent on many things — mood , confirmation from others , self-esteem , changing trends in what is considered attractive . |
| 14 | How have the lives of all of us changed since the 1970s ? |
| 15 | And what millions of us watch on the big screen can influence whole areas of our lives — from our kitchen design , our holiday destination , our fantasy men , to what we eat and wear and how we 'd like to look . |
| 16 | Research evidence shows that , whilst human adults vary greatly in their intellectual curiosity and their levels of mental energy , most of us learn by the unconscious process of internalizing knowledge , skills or attitudes that have a more-or-less permanent effect on our subsequent behaviour . |
| 17 | Madam , Nearly two million of us belong to the National Trust because we believe in what it stands for , and because it offers us superb value for our annual subscription . |
| 18 | For an hour the three of us crouched inside the leaking tent . |
| 19 | Let's see if we can refine those like us looking at the first two lines of the play . |
| 20 | The grey ash cone on which we crouched pared away beneath us to blend with the leaden sea like an optical illusion . |
| 21 | Neither are West Ham fans likely to agree with his saying : ‘ Our supporters are only interested in us getting into the next round . ’ |
| 22 | All these cases are distinguishable from , and indeed , inapplicable to , the present , which appears to us to fall within the general rule , that a consideration past and executed will support no other promise than such as would be implied by law . |
| 23 | Im happy for us to stick with the present team ( when DOL fit ) , unless we start to make obvious cock ups in one postition. the team looks balanced and functional as it is … just need the forwards to start knocking in a few more goals … |
| 24 | On the way , there are supposedly many opportunities for us to laugh at the pretentious antics of the cheeky Doyle , and howl at the gormless prattlings of his elder travelling companion . |
| 25 | It is all too easy for us to think of the religious life of fourteenth century England solely in terms of Chaucer and Langland . |
| 26 | ABC offers the unique opportunity for us to expand in the general trade market and simultaneously take advantage of its very successful relationship with speciality booksellers . ’ |
| 27 | It is a choice that is fully there for us to make at the same time and in the same fashion as other countries , except that we have the additional option of deciding that it would not be right for this country . |
| 28 | ‘ What do you think about us moving into the big villa which is being built at Praia do Carvoeiro ? ’ |