Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 2 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 3 | These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities . |
| 4 | ‘ I registered us as Mr and Mrs Wyatt . ’ |
| 5 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 6 | I want us to be together in the next life . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because I want us to be friends . |
| 8 | ‘ I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 9 | ’ I want us to be positive , even though Chelsea deserve respect because of the very impressive run they 've had . |
| 10 | I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I want us to be clear about what we 're doing . |
| 12 | ‘ Whatever Scotland 's team , I want us to be creative enough to make the Maltese worry without being in any way self conscious about problems that are in the past , ’ concluded the national coach . |
| 13 | I want us to be where we belong , at the very heart of Europe . |
| 14 | ‘ What have I got us into ? ’ |
| 15 | I exclude us from that category . |
| 16 | The only danger to me is someone hearing us in here , getting alarmed , calling the police , maybe . |
| 17 | The first thing we need is someone to save us from our sins ! |
| 18 | She took a painting someone gave us as a wedding present . |
| 19 | Usually it was someone congratulating us on having won a free dancing lesson or test drive ; but there were quite a few grumpy wrong numbers , which made us feel at home . |
| 20 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 21 | I wanted us to be honest with each other , and I rushed into it , hoping you would understand . ’ |
| 22 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 23 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 24 | That is , that he came to Earth to save mankind from the wrong in the world , which separates us from God . |
| 25 | It is Ego which drives us to be dutiful and fulfil false obligations . |
| 26 | I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision . |
| 27 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 28 | Back to the beginning , and the archery shafts which led us into carbon tubes and the generation of so many new designs for steerable aerobatic kites . |
| 29 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 30 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |