Example sentences of "[Wh det] [verb] us [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We walked alongside the stream and then negotiated the board-walk which led us safely across a treacherous bog to the shores of the tarn . |
| 2 | All this contrasts sharply with the flimsy world of divination , of Madame Sosostris , which lands us unsurprisingly in the heart of London as we hear how all this ‘ fiddle ’ will always be found ‘ When there is distress of nations and perplexity/ Whether on the shores of Asia , or in the Edgware Road ’ . |
| 3 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 4 | These are ‘ novels squared , novels of novels ’ , a formula which tells us little about the actual narrative rendition of the works in question , but a great deal about the unhappiness of the critic . |
| 5 | First , that the radical Right 's assault has been carefully managed ; the step by step approach was brilliantly conceived and managed by diligent and unerring control from the centre ; secondly , that the speed of its success has varied in different areas of public provision , which tells us much about the role of resistances , resistances built on organized opposition within the public services . |
| 6 | The general shortage of comforts and of everything which kept us just above the lowest level of life was sufficiently great to make individuals cling to what they had with something like fanaticism . |
| 7 | When we finally reached the top of the Bouton Straits the rain had ceased as completely as the wind and it was only the current which carried us eastwards into the luminous open sea . |
| 8 | Another feature which brings us closer to the issue of the control of pupils within the unit is the ‘ unit contract ’ . |
| 9 | As I said earlier , that is the thin end of the wedge which brings us closer to the day of ruin . |
| 10 | We talk about whatever interests us perhaps for the same reason that Willis draws it and paints it . " |
| 11 | It 's what sets us apart from the rest . |