Example sentences of "[adj] [prep] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’
2 Rank on rank they stretched to the horizon , their reflections shimmering towards us on a blue mirror .
3 There was a short silence then the dogs ' barking grew into a raucous row ; shouts and the shrill of hunting horns carried clear to us as a fat buck , together with two hinds , galloped from the trees and across the meadow in a flurry of snow .
4 Northamptonshire TEC says bluntly : ’ It became clear to us in the early summer that we would not be fulfilling our Youth Training guarantee . ’
5 Denise Alexander said : ‘ People throughout the North of England have been fantastically generous to us in the past year . ’
6 He is indeed , as John Taylor has aptly called him , ‘ the go-between God ’ , for he both takes the things of God and makes them real to us on the one hand , and takes our faint longings and prayers and brings them to the Father on the other .
7 Things had been tense between us throughout the two-year preparation period .
8 Why people think it 's noisy for us on a double main road , but it ai n't really .
9 Linfield chairman , David Campbell said today : ‘ This is a fantastic capture for us — an experienced player who will be invaluable to us in the European Cup . ’
10 However , it was extremely important for us in the next few years to develop this usage .
11 Of all the therapies available to us at the present time , spiritual healing in whatever form it is administered is probably the most deep-acting , the most misunderstood and the least often practised .
12 At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail .
13 Those aspects of union which are of enduring worth are available to us in a European union .
14 I shall , of course , establish whether we can use elements of the legislative battery that is available to us in a different way from the way in which it has been used until now .
15 But the world of chapter 26 is not only familiar to us from the preceding chapters of Genesis .
16 Jamie 's head lies motionless between us on the dirty sheets .
17 It is not necessary for us in the present case to decide whether this distinction is a legitimate one and I do not think we should assume to do so .
18 On everything , house , garden , terrace , green slopes , water , old oaks , fern , moss , woods again , and far away across the openings in the prospect , to the distance lying wide before us with a purple bloom upon it , there seemed to be such undisturbed repose .
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