Example sentences of "us [prep] the [adj] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 5 | Could all teams also inform us of the proposed date and venue of their tie so that we can send a photographer when possible . |
| 6 | The Secretary of State helpfully reminded us of the enormous changes and potential changes in the Soviet Union . |
| 7 | Odd-Knut — whose English was good enough to know that he did not want us to call him ‘ Odd ’ — suggested that he could leave us near the Finnish border and we could ski or walk the last bit . |
| 8 | The Sergeant took us into the small canteen and told us quietly and forcefully that our holiday in Aubagne was over and that we were off to start four months of basic training designed to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 9 | The European Commission have agreed an action programme that will take us into the next century and this is despite the attitude of the present U K government . |
| 10 | Which leaves us with the amazing K-Board and I 've already passed judgement on that ! |
| 11 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 12 | Now sad to say all the little businesses have gone , leaving us with the beautiful church and small post office . |
| 13 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | ‘ Villa totally outclassed us in the first half and we were extremely lucky only to be a goal down . |
| 16 | He squatted opposite us in the open doorway and lit a cigarette . |
| 17 | The statement before us on the Labour Party and the trade union links sets aside various recommendations on how we are going to cast our block vote at this year 's Labour Party Conference on this issue the options open to us are listed in this paper and I 'd like to make the following observations . |
| 18 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 19 | There are four of us on the full-time staff and four trainees . |
| 20 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 21 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 22 | She spotted us at the same time and after a long look , took her offspring and ambled away along the side of the mountain . |
| 23 | The Quartet can be read as a ‘ simulacrum of simulation ’ in this sense : it reveals the simulated nature of the projections , speculations , and reconstructions fed us by the oral media and the role of story-telling in all so-called ‘ objective ’ compilations of factual information . |
| 24 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |