Example sentences of "[art] [adj] [noun sg] [verb] us [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now they 've got the bloody nerve to charge us half when we live there I do n't think she 'd dare say anything to me about it . |
| 2 | Those are all steps in the right direction to make us more competitive ; and if we are more competitive , we can obviously sell more of our goods . |
| 3 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 4 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 5 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 6 | Within a minute or so he modified his cocksureness — — ‘ The good Lord gives us all certain gifts ’ — but not much . |
| 7 | As I told you , the present war rules us both . |
| 8 | He also insisted that ‘ every compromise with the existing system leaves us less capable of changing that system ’ . |
| 9 | Not only is the system incapable of answering this type of question , even the General Theory gives us few clues apart from the somewhat cursory treatment of the two elasticities , e p and e y , in Keynes 's generalized quantity theory of money . |
| 10 | We have decided to hand them over ( Gen Keightley is in touch and on good terms with the Russian general on his right ) , but I suggested that the Russians should at the same time give us any British prisoners or wounded who may be in his area . |
| 11 | A return to the formal table manners of Victorian times may be the best way to stop us all eating in a hurry . |
| 12 | For example , if we have raised our body temperature by exercise or effort then cooling ourselves by taking a cold shower , a swim , or a cold drink makes us more comfortable . |
| 13 | A useful mnemonic reminds us that movement with the heavens is passive ; movement against the sun and moon and the stars is aggressive and/or courageous ! |
| 14 | The ride itself was reasonably uneventful , a marvellous tailwind pushing us all the way to Royston for the first seventy miles , then pushing us back to Royston for the next hundred miles . |
| 15 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |