Example sentences of "[prep] us in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 2 | Below us in the village square Kalchu had pegged out his backstrap loom and was weaving a length of grey goat's-hair cloth to make a rug . |
| 3 | But those of us in the recycling business must take issue with the statement from the British Plastics Federation that recycled plastics can not safely be used to package food . |
| 4 | It will also have every reason to lose confidence and trust in us , and be more wary of us in the future . |
| 5 | All of us in the team knew that we were totally dependent on the Lord for any ‘ success ’ — but it was still reassuring at each crusade when Walter would murmur to me as he surveyed the huge first night crowds — ‘ Well , Harvey , that 's your job safe till the next one . |
| 6 | The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero . |
| 7 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 8 | The only certainty is that the eclipse of the pollsters , and — by implication — all of us in the media who focus so much attention upon their findings , is a happy outcome for democracy . |
| 9 | THE CASE of World Athletics versus All Credibitity has now reached such a pitch of mealy-mouthed , farcical dithering that some of us in the public gallery are considering leaping into the well of the court and making a noisy scene . |
| 10 | It must be a cause for concern to those of us in the public sector that in the period 1979–90 the percentage of children receiving private education increased from 5 per cent to 7.8 per cent a growth of over 50 per cent . |
| 11 | Like several of us in The Bar at that time , when I made love , or masturbated by myself , I often used to have fantasies about doing it with either O or Boy . |
| 12 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |
| 13 | Our early ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger ; yet they were far more advanced in the art of survival than many of us in the modern world could ever envisage . |
| 14 | With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties . |
| 15 | The issue is not whether the UK should back nuclear safety research at Ispra ( those of us in the field in the UK are all in favour of that ) , but whether the majority of the resources ( and even an increase in the planned budget ) should be concentrated on a single project which can not possibly give results until late 1986 . |
| 16 | In making such judgments one is in much the same position as a journalist describing a battle after it had taken place from the bar of a hotel , for the pressures in the 'sixties were very great and very immediate and those of us in the Ministries of Education responded to them as best we knew how . |
| 17 | Those of us in the disabled world are weary of words without action . |
| 18 | Even those of us in the office who had their doubts at first were soon won over by the instrument 's simplicity and friendliness . |
| 19 | First , the concern of socialists with justice is a rebuke to many of us in the West who tend to be far too complacent in accepting the status quo and much which is unjust which goes with it . |
| 20 | Although a skeleton staff had been left behind to keep the houses dusted and secure and though there were more of us in the compound than the average Western home would see in a month , there was an air of loneliness , an awful stillness as though the heart had been removed from the body . |
| 21 | We lived in a three-bedroomed council house , one of the bedrooms being little more than a boxroom , and by this time there were seven of us in the family . |
| 22 | The Emma was just astern of us in the convoy and keepin' station fine , even though she was a coal-burner . ’ |
| 23 | Once was enough and most of us in the jockeys room agreed on that . |
| 24 | There were not many of us in the group to begin with , and so the issue of having two separate groups for lesbians and gay men was n't considered to be organizationally viable . |
| 25 | The reassurance that there is a place for all of us in the scheme of things should help a little . |
| 26 | ‘ We aim to foster the study and reflection proper to a public institution ’ , concludes Pacquement ‘ and to restore public confidence by rediscovering the framework of reference we all need , especially those of us in the profession ’ . |
| 27 | There 's four of us in the family — my brother Gary , my older sister Majella , myself and my younger sister Mary . |
| 28 | There were forty-eight of us in the Section . |
| 29 | She said , " There are ten of us in the house now . |
| 30 | Our immediate competitor at the BBC , Points West , fronted by the affable and highly competent Jeremy Carrad in those days , was well ahead of us in the ratings . |