Example sentences of "[pron] [vb base] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities . |
| 2 | 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 . ’ |
| 3 | I want us to be together in the next life . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Because I want us to be friends . |
| 5 | ‘ I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 6 | ’ I want us to be positive , even though Chelsea deserve respect because of the very impressive run they 've had . |
| 7 | I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ But I want us to be clear about what we 're doing . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | I want us to be where we belong , at the very heart of Europe . |
| 11 | I exclude us from that category . |
| 12 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 13 | This is the case for the English king 's financial archives which provide us with much information on the sums collected , how they were spent , and the organisation which lay behind that expenditure . |
| 14 | When we plan a language syllabus we can draw on very comprehensive descriptions of the language which provide us with a basis for deciding what should go into the syllabus and in what order . |
| 15 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 16 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 17 | The course content includes : exploring fantasy , sexual response , body image , and a look at some of the underlying feelings which prevent us from reaching our sexual potential . |
| 18 | It is our values and not our limited means which prevent us from recognizing that our society possesses adequate resources for the task in hand . |
| 19 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 20 | Death is the removal of all the possibilities which sustain us in our lives . |
| 21 | By various tricks which save us from the full load of naive combinatorics , one can show that the student 's original result ( 61 with red eyes , 23 with white ) gives Mendel 's explanation a backing of nearly 100% ; so the professor was right . |
| 22 | Mr Chairman , in his er , video to us , er drew attention to the , both the external and internal challenges which face us at the present time . |
| 23 | Newer approaches to history can give accounts which do not have landmark events and which tell us about different aspects of the past , such as social conditions . |
| 24 | Here we report combined observations by the EISCAT radars and the DMSP-F10 satellite which tell us about the spatial and temporal behaviour of the cusp . |
| 25 | The event can , of course , be a happy one and create openings which allow us to ‘ break the mould ’ of earlier restrictions . |
| 26 | Finally , there are underlying semantic connections which allow us to ‘ make sense ’ of a text as a unit of meaning ; these are dealt with under the heading of coherence and |
| 27 | We will find ourselves missing golden opportunities , getting ourselves involved in time-consuming , time-wasting activities which distract us from our main goals . |
| 28 | I John gives several other ways which enable us to be confident of our new status . |
| 29 | I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better-balanced mould than what preceded it . |
| 30 | Those of us who believe that causality is central to the philosophy of data analysis prefer measures of effect , which force us to be explicit about causal order , to symmetric measures of association . |