Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [verb] [prep] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet these are the same people who are our neighbours , our friends and those who sit beside us in the cinema or at a football ground . |
| 2 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 3 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 4 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 5 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 6 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 7 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 8 | In this poem Jnandas addresses God 's messenger , who comes to us in the morning light of our childhood , in the dusk of our day 's end , and in the night 's darkness : |
| 9 | For the sake of our fans who stood by us through the lean years , I would love to bring it to Cliftonville . ’ |
| 10 | I 'm introducing Jane , who works with us on the same telephone team with Jack . |