Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 2 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 3 | Here we have someone shouting at us about the bad effects of the Prozac , they then tell us that have n't taken them . |
| 4 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 5 | We suggest that , while bicycles may be recognizable by reference to the fact that they are damaged ( as in ( 59 ) ) , we can not easily describe bicycles as belonging to us in the same respect ; nor can we refer to ideas as belonging to you inasmuch as they are " discussed " . |
| 6 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 7 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 8 | We had lunch on the side of the valley as a polar bear lay sleeping opposite us on the other side ! |
| 9 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that , if the Government were to introduce proposals to toughen up sentencing policy — to impose stiffer sentences — we could look forward to Opposition Members agreeing with us for the first time ? |
| 10 | If he 's in for working with us on the next single then it might happen . ’ |
| 11 | He should understand that ‘ the story of Christ is simply a true myth : a myth working on us in the same way as the others , but with this tremendous difference that it really happened : and one must be content to accept it in the same way . ’ |