Example sentences of "[adv] [prep] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 2 | These are now part of planning history , but it is live history : the issues are still very much with us in the 1980s , and there is no guarantee that the current resolution of them will prove sufficiently resilient to withstand the unpredictable changes in the context within which they operate . |
| 3 | It had been hammered home to us during the previous winter . |
| 4 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 5 | As it is , with four seasons lost to the War , Jimmy reached 200 Southern League games , so that even today he is comfortably within our top forty all-time appearances , while only Joe Johnson and Harry Collyer played more often for us in the Southern League . |
| 6 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |
| 7 | Nick actually captained the Palace on occasions in Walker 's absence , and he went on to play regularly for us throughout the first three wartime seasons , before his duties in the Royal Navy prevented him continuing his Palace career . |
| 8 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |
| 9 | The man leans against the gate two hundred yards ahead of us along the muddy path . |
| 10 | The tunnel entrance had grown big , the stone arch of it rearing up ahead of us like the open jaws of some petrified monster . |