Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] us [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | When her shift is over , I propel us straight to a Vintage Horror All-Nighter in an old cinema near King 's Cross for some spiritual refreshment . |
2 | We 'd like to see loads of you visit us here in the ‘ home of Leeds-United ’ for this one . |
3 | ‘ Yesterday Margrida was saying that when she saw us together at the lunch she felt we shared an affinity , ’ Ashley recalled . |
4 | In her A Question of Identity she gives us early on a good description of a room in a cottage . |
5 | They are only two types of doubt among many others , but they introduce us directly to the heart of our problem . |
6 | With little choice they drove us sullenly to the hotel . |
7 | Even the endlessly patient bicycle rickshaw drivers muttered curses under their breath as they drove us uphill through the narrowing funnel of tightly-packed houses . |
8 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
9 | Proust 's Faubourg St Germain was acutely aware of differences between them , but they tell us little about the distribution of power in France . |
10 | I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ’ |
11 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
12 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
13 | They marched us regularly to the top of Castle Hill where we fired off every conceivable type of weapon ; twelve bores , .22 rifles , revolvers , Browning machine guns . |
14 | Keyboard-player Winnie Williams , said : ‘ They chased us all over the terminal . |
15 | They beat us all over the park . ’ |
16 | It drives us home to the God who longs to turn our disasters into triumph . |
17 | Instead he told us sombrely of the deprivations of St Antony . |
18 | There were tears in the eyes of the farmer as he shook us warmly by the hand . |
19 | It 's especially interesting because our vocalist is female and black , which not only avoids the Tin Machine comparisons , but it gets us away from the whole rock'n'roll boy 's club scenario . |
20 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
21 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
22 | It tells us little about the writer 's private feelings . |
23 | The free volume theory deals with the need for space to be available before co-operative motion , characteristic of the glass transition , can be initiated , but it tells us little about the molecular motion itself . |
24 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
25 | Again , it tells us much about the society of archaic hunters and gatherers , but much less about modern or ancient societies with well-developed , centralized-state structures . |
26 | He ran us all over the shop . |
27 | If broadcast worship links us into that universal cycle of prayer and that reality , then it brings us closer to the presence of God . |