Example sentences of "[v-ing] us [prep] [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Philip French wrote in The Times , ‘ Once again , the considerable talent of Michael Crawford is squandered on feeble material , and he is excusably incapable of convincing us of the irresistible attraction of an insipid newcomer called Genevieve Gilles , who delivers her lines as if reading them from the small print of an oculist 's chart ( from which they might well have derived ) . |
| 32 | Sand-covered wooden steps hug a large man-made sand dune buffer , delivering us onto a vast expanse of pale beach . |
| 33 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 34 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 35 | Mm well thanks for your thoughts Peter echoing what everybody else has said and er thanks for coming on telling us about the new trees as well . |
| 36 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 37 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 38 | Such surveys are , of course , confidential leaving us with a cold set of statistics and meaningless fractions such as . |
| 39 | Now sad to say all the little businesses have gone , leaving us with the beautiful church and small post office . |
| 40 | Cos Nick , I remember Nick phoning us up the other day actually . |
| 41 | Using us as the middle bit , it does n't matter which airport they use ? |
| 42 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 43 | Er I think er if the honourable gentleman checks the record he will find that my right honourable friend said that America did not have a national statutory minimum wage but I 'm most I 'm most grateful to the honourable gentleman for reminding us of the international comparisons because he will know that the country in Europe which has embraced his policy of a statutory minimum wage is Spain and Spain has twice the level of unemployment of the European average and twice the level in this country . |
| 44 | So far as the old , mutually dependent carers are concerned , this work is valuable in reminding us of the substantial numbers of men who perform these functions for their wives . |
| 45 | The popularity of the Polonaise in D has always outshone that of its A major companion , and Ricci includes both , reminding us of the splendid verve and zest of these overtly nationalistic works . |
| 46 | Similarly , Jackson , reminding us of the different varieties of bureaucrat identified by Downs ( 1967 ) , questions the assumption that everything contributing to a bureaucrat 's utility function can be represented by the bureau 's budget . |
| 47 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 48 | ‘ Could Hitler be lulling us into a false sense of security ? ’ |
| 49 | When visiting us in the early stages of Christian Aid she listened with obvious incredulity to our talk about the hours we would spend in Church on the books . |