Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Children seemed to find us particularly intriguing , and would gaze unselfconsciously , with the characteristically grave , uncommitted regard of the young , before being yanked away from the kerb by their mothers . |
| 2 | At least no one came and found us half naked in the showers with our arms around each other . |
| 3 | ‘ I did n't know you found us so amusing ! ’ |
| 4 | If it does , you will also remain in the son , and in the father and this is what he promised us even eternal life . |
| 5 | That would get back at them for their currency chicanery which cost us so dear . |
| 6 | queried whether we really needed to be in it and I told him that sales wanted it and the reasons why we wanted to be in erm even the fact that it was going to k erm give us more accounting work erm whatsisname what bank is it ? |
| 7 | The misanthropic gardener elevates his roses and relegates his relations and if challenged , as well he might be , would give us possibly good reasons for so doing . |
| 8 | That is what has made us so attractive . |
| 9 | Therese who had made us very welcome said we were fantastic company and that the weekend was enjoyable . |
| 10 | ( I an happy to report , however , that none of us now has any fear at all of dogs — indeed familiarity has made us quite fond of them . ) |
| 11 | Not only could the possibility of salvation be rejected , both James Stephen and Clarkson affirmed , but men and women had sufficiently free will , ‘ to render us justly responsible … for all the sins we commit in this our state of trial ’ . |
| 12 | Kerslake did nt have an easy task last year , but a whole preseason should show us how good he is . |
| 13 | Has increased public sympathy cost us too dear ? |
| 14 | We keep ourselves to ourselves , Joan and I. There was a frightful nosy American in the summer who just turned up out of the blue and told us how honoured we must be , having the old bat 's relics up here . |
| 15 | Old ICM hands had nodded sagely and told us how difficult it would be to keep up the pace of attending the plenary , the working parties , the fringe meetings and the delegation briefings … and did we believe them ? |
| 16 | The projects 's director told us how important Oxfam 's help is . |
| 17 | Travis told us how lovely you were . |
| 18 | as you 're being my mum you did n't keep us very long . |
| 19 | The research of Jane Rowe and Lydia Lambert , published in Children Who Wait in 1973 , showed us how inadequate our work had been in that respect . |
| 20 | The prospect of environmental catastrophe has shown us how fragile life is , how inter-dependent we all are , how difficult it is going to be to find our way out — and how important ideas are going to be to finding it . |
| 21 | But United are hanging on to ‘ Captain Marvel ’ leaving Derby boss Arthur Cox admitting : ‘ We made an inquiry for Robson , but United turned us down flat and said he was not available . ’ |
| 22 | Even when our bodies give us very clear signals that something is wrong , we will hardly ever take responsibility for any problems that we may incur . |
| 23 | ‘ The Police generally support us on this , but I have to say the problem does not seem quite as serious now as it used to be , and they did not mind us frequently playing Saturday games last season . ’ |
| 24 | I would , before passing on the next part of our programme , I would like to warmly thank Judy and Simon and Richard and Tony , not only for their presentations , their carefully thought out presentations to give us as broad a span as possible of how they see the priorities , what is happening at this time , but for everything else they do in leading their teams and initiating so many of the exchanges that take place , which adds so much , as has been said by , both by Judy and by other speakers , to carry N C V O forward . |
| 25 | My argument is that statecentrism , whether in its directly state-centrist form or in indirect forms , takes us quite far but not far enough . |
| 26 | You thought it would stop us as good as they did . |
| 27 | Gentle exercise is valuable too but needs to be taken most days in order to do us real good . |
| 28 | It keeps us too wet . |
| 29 | Lentils coming from Ethiopia , you get wheat from the States , rice from the States , ap apples from France , tea from India , coffee from Brazil and Columbia , sugar from the Windward Islands , bananas from all over the place , you know those are the things that keep us alive , no , you know , whether we one think they are or not , but I mean them things are what keeps the economy alive for one , it 's also what keeps us personally alive if you do n't know why we take an interest in Third World issues , I would say that it 's that , we 're dependent on these countries , we could produce enough foods for our own needs , but we would n't have oranges , coffee , tea , sugar , you know cos we ca n't grow them in this country we , we really depend on those things to stay alive , and for that reason alone we should have some kind of interest , if you went to Kenya for example they would be staggered at how little you know about their country given how much they know about yours they know a lot about this country , a lot of it is a bit loopy , but then what you know about their country is probably a bit off centre as well , and you know I hope that this is something that we 're reversing in this section , our perceptions of the Third World or the south or whatever we choose to call it , colour a lot of the things that we think and do and say and it increases the amount of racism that there is around us all , all those kind of things , erm and I think that it is really important to look at what a perception is , you know , for example what 's your perception of this ? |
| 30 | So , let's have a , an interesting and er , tell us why other department makes life clear . |