Example sentences of "what [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Masturbation ( stroking the vulva and clitoris ) is a great way of relaxing , giving ourselves pleasure and finding out what turns us on . |
| 2 | WHAT TURNS US ON ? |
| 3 | So what made us persist with John ? |
| 4 | ‘ We have a friend who always drives diesels , and that 's what made us look at them , ’ says Mr Cole . |
| 5 | This is partly I suppose what made us seem like a destination to him ; he was in that simple sense ready to arrive , ready to get somewhere and rest there for the night . |
| 6 | ‘ We are falling away from what made us a good side . |
| 7 | That 's what made us play up , people just sitting there , not able to go up to the STU [ occupational therapy ] because there was n't enough officers or staff to take us . |
| 8 | What concerned us more was the news that anyone sheltering or helping escaped prisoners-of-war would be severely punished . |
| 9 | That 's what upset us most . |
| 10 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 11 | What such an identification involved becomes apparent in Prisoner in a passage which renders the crucial difference not one of colour , yet by the same criterion reinstates the distinction between blacks and whites : ‘ What separates us from the Blacks today is not so much the colour of our skin or the type of our hair as the phantom-ridden psyche we never see except when a Black lets fall some joking and to us cryptic phrase . |
| 12 | It is accepted that what separates us from the other creatures sharing our planet is our capacity to think . |
| 13 | It 's what we have fun doing , but what drives us crazy also . ’ |
| 14 | That is what drives us on . |
| 15 | ‘ What worries us most is where the takeout will come from , ’ John Atkins of Phillips & Drew said . |
| 16 | So , for all we know , what worries us today could be resolved well within our lifetime . |
| 17 | ‘ What worries us is that our sales could be affected because fingers of suspicion are being pointed at us . ’ |
| 18 | As far as we know nobody has , but we must n't be afraid to talk about what worries us . |
| 19 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 20 | What primes us agents most is our own exclusive conference speech from the Leader . |
| 21 | So what changed us ? |
| 22 | ‘ Her qualifications were adequate but what hooked us was the photo she included . |
| 23 | That 's what put us out , ’ Arthur said . |
| 24 | ‘ We know what helps us to learn and we know what hinders us too ’ |
| 25 | All these added values should concern us , as should the question , what motivates us ? |
| 26 | Depending upon what view of human nature we take then we will arrive at different explanations of what motivates us . |
| 27 | The higher up we go in an organisation then what motivates us will also change . |
| 28 | This effect , sometimes referred to as ‘ encoding specificity ’ ( e.g. Tulving and Thomson 1973 ; Tulving 1983 ) has been subject to a range of interpretations but what concerns us here is the general possibility that contextual factors might determine test performance by modulating the ease with which stored information is retrieved . |
| 29 | The nature of this colonization has already been discussed ; what concerns us now is the over-all impression of growth . |
| 30 | What concerns us is that if those things are done outside the IASC 's control , it threatens to undermine our credibility . |