Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | ‘ Below us lay the winding valley of the Onny , with the dense woods of Plowden rising on the other side . |
| 2 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 3 | The clock 's designer would know the details of its real essence whereas , says Locke , none of us know the real essence of gold . |
| 4 | And every residential social worker knows that I am not exaggerating when I say that after a death has occurred — often alone or with one of us holding the dying resident 's hand — the family will descend like vultures , demanding a complete inventory of all their belongings , ransacking their personal clothes for valuables , and insisting on receiving all that is left of the petty cash . |
| 5 | And we thought the contact , some of us thought the actual crunch should be the contact , provide the issue with a person on the ground . |
| 6 | If more of us thought the same way , this country would n't be in such a mess . |
| 7 | Most of us took the easy way out and accepted a helicopter ride back to Kleine Scheidegg , but Drummond and eight others stayed on top for an all-night vigil . |
| 8 | Because the back is well supplied with oil-producing sebaceous glands many of us get the occasional crop of spots . |
| 9 | It would seem amazingly out of step for east European countries to be finding their national indentities after 40 years of being forced into artificial political groupings while the rest of Europe was seeking to impose federalism and political union on its member states at the same moment when they are starting down the road to a single European market — perhaps the acid test of how much one of us wants the Common Market to succeed . |
| 10 | ( b ) Not many of us have the necessary expertise or inclination to do a good job . |
| 11 | At the time little did either of us realise the historical importance of this ‘ pebble ’ in its relation to the modern metal detector . |
| 12 | And she was in tears as he said : ‘ All of us owe the same debt to Glenys because if there was a complete partnership , this is it . |
| 13 | Most of us feel the same way . |
| 14 | Only then did most of us realize the extraordinary power in the hands of the major oil producers , a power that was to revolutionize the relationship between the West and OPEC . ’ |
| 15 | On to the last day and Nicklaus — who was putting in a charge in front of us attempting the third part of the grand slam , having won the Masters and the US Open in 1972 — and everything was going reasonably well until the 7th , the hare hole . |
| 16 | It depends which of us has the most patience . ’ |
| 17 | As in 1813 the people looked to us to destroy the Napoleonic terror , so today in 1943 they look to us to destroy the terror of National Socialism . |
| 18 | Instead , natural selection seems to lead to us adopting the effective theory of free will . |
| 19 | No authorities cited to us establish the contrary position … |
| 20 | ‘ During the week beginning 22 February , those peripherals necessary for us to test the new system were connected up using the new channel cables and spare channel adaptors on some device control units . ’ |
| 21 | This is so contrary to our general assumptions ( namely that the Holy Spirit , however vaguely we conceive of him , is an internal gift for the faithful , appropriate only to be mentioned in church ) that it is important for us to see the crucial link between the Spirit and mission which is presented to us in the pages of the New Testament . |
| 22 | It is not for us to judge the personal morality of the decisions individuals have taken . |
| 23 | We compare what we are seeing with what we know , to see if there is enough resemblance for us to treat the new thing in the same way as we would have treated the known thing . |
| 24 | It remains for us to consider the macro-economic case for the widespread and general adoption of the industrial co-operative form . |
| 25 | In the second sentence , which has a grain of ambiguity , grammar and meaning do not provide sufficient information for us to neglect the visual analysis . |
| 26 | erm He says , ‘ Just as what we think good , what we should like , has no bearing on whatever on what is , so it is for us to determine the good life . |
| 27 | And it 's no good saying , ‘ It is for us to determine the good life . |