Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , but when you , you have to shop for us lot it can , and loads and loads and loads |
| 2 | Our travels led us to places as far apart as Sanderstown , San Francisco , New York , and London — all in search of an ‘ insurance ’ that would guarantee for us peace and tranquillity on Koraloona , the most beautiful island of the whole beautiful Moto Varu archipelago . |
| 3 | And she said why do n't you come swimming with us Rick ? |
| 4 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 5 | And I certainly do n't want your bum-boy here listening to us debate . |
| 6 | It seemed to us nonsense that the benefit system should be duplicating the role of educational provision in that way . |
| 7 | Susan : For example in Cookery , there were some knives and forks gone missing , right , and Mrs B goes ‘ Where 's the knives and forks ? ’ looking at us lot ( the Afro-Caribbean pupils in the class ) . |
| 8 | Oh , I think they 're waiting for us Eleni , it does n't matter , bye . |
| 9 | Within the territory of England proper , the only surviving separate language was Cornish , and it is significant that this linguistic divergence was itself an issue during political troubles in the mid sixteenth century : one plea which the Cornish rebels made in 1549 in favour of the traditional liturgy was that ‘ we the Cornyshe men ( whereof certen of us understande no Englysh ) utterly refuse thys newe Englysh ’ ( 73 , p. 135 ) . |
| 10 | These authorities instill in us acceptance of life in this world and putting all our hopes into the illusion , or non-illusion , of the afterlife . |
| 11 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 12 | ‘ But what 's that got to do with us being friends ? ’ |
| 13 | To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse — the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory ! |
| 14 | When they see us paddling on the river , they stare at us open-mouthed , as if we are completely insane . |
| 15 | The state in which the ideas existed before being made conscious is called by us repression , and we assert that the force which instituted the repression and maintains it is perceived as resistance during the work of analysis . |
| 16 | But what I do say is I am a trustee I am a trustee not of farmer 's land not of your land Mr , not of your land Mr not of your land Mr every person in Leicestershire owns that land , they have got a mark and I 'll tell you sir four thousand five hundred signatures made in one weekend are saying to us you are a trustee of our land , it 's not your land , our land I keep hearing , it 's our land it 's not our land it 's the people of Leicestershire 's land and what the people of Leicestershire land are saying to us sir , they 're saying to us you can not continue this barbaric killing of foxes . |
| 17 | And tomb that stondeth to us stille . |
| 18 | Tragic father died for us vicar |
| 19 | I therefore took with us Ergay , one of our zabanias , selected a place to sleep under an overhanging rock and sent him back to camp to bring Birru in the evening with a mule , blankets and food . |
| 20 | The camera can take us into people 's homes and lives and places of work and lay before us evidence of what life and work is like in another country . |
| 21 | Yeah , I I ca n't think of any other things that you know that would have led to us sort of withdrawing our labour , e everything else could 've settled amicably or through discussions with the union . |
| 22 | ‘ You must allow for us city dwellers , Miss Carew . |
| 23 | It is appropriate that the areas of policy now being pushed forward on an intergovernmental basis should be done in that way because that is how we carry with us consent in our national Parliaments and public opinion . |
| 24 | Some are talking about Cornwall falling to us lock stock and barrel . |
| 25 | It got rather nasty — at one point my sister and I were actually playing tug-of-war with a vase — and ended with us rowing about which of us was his favourite . |
| 26 | ‘ If it 's not the dratted hill , ’ pronounced old Piggott the sexton gloomily , ‘ that carries off us Thrush Green folks , it 's the dratted east wind . |
| 27 | On the whole there is a tendency to speak of us being in Christ , and of the Spirit being in us . |
| 28 | Then they would be returned to us sir , and then if appropriate they would be dealt with in the context er of your report and the of the report . |