Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] us in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The decision puts us in a very difficult position . |
| 2 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 3 | ‘ The law leaves us in a very curious condition , ’ former consultant Alan Dixon told the Cox case jury . |
| 4 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 5 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 6 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 7 | Fortunately the steam clothed us in a little decency . |
| 8 | By inviting people to follow Christ , we must also be in a position to include the invitation to join us in the pilgrimage . |
| 9 | A bomb hit us in the night , d' ya not know that ? |