Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours . |
| 2 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 3 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 4 | We rely on the good advice of our solicitors who advise us on the appropriate action to take . |
| 5 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 6 | The figures you gave us at the beginning I I seem to remember that you sell a lot more water abroad than in this country . |
| 7 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 8 | And yet , although he was a scientific naturalist and although in frequent essays he reminds us of the insignificance and unimportance of man in the whole scheme of things , it 's plain that , from the beginning , and as I hope I shall be able to show you , right down to the end , he found something emotionally hard to bear , I was going to say , in fact , intolerable , in this situation . |
| 9 | If we believe , as many difference theorists seem to , that the best way of understanding gender relations is to study children , this saves us from having to address some very difficult practical issues which affect us in the here-and-now . |
| 10 | We were all absolutely fagged out , and promptly dropped off to sleep at 4 a.m. , only to be caught later by some children who betrayed us to the patrols . |
| 11 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 12 | None of this excuses their behaviour , of course , but this is an unusually human account of an all-too-human encounter in the streets which reminds us of a certain constancy of human motive , and of conflicts built around the human meanings that are attached to the social realities of class , physical appearance and territory . |
| 13 | This was " Bugisville " all right , and our arrival was accompanied by the usual howling horde of kids and adults who jostled us up the steps to the house of the Bupati , the government-appointed chief , where we had arrived to pay our respects . |