Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 3 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 4 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 5 | ‘ If you would n't mind coming along to light us on the way back ? |
| 6 | and that obviously affects the kinds of problems they have with regard to income , benefits , debt problems erm and with regards the kind of things they come in to see us about , things like single payments f for things . |
| 7 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 8 | I am delighted you are able to call in to see us in Welshpool on Thursday morning next week ( the 25th June ) . |
| 9 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 10 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 11 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 12 | Hirsch 's formulation does not exclude the possibility of understanding literature in aesthetic terms , it merely prohibits us from claiming that this is how literature is , essentially , to be comprehended . |
| 13 | One focus is Jesus , who reveals the love of God for us , and so reconciles us to God , ; the other is the spiritual and ethical community which he founded . |
| 14 | Our brain uses these slight differences to give the scene depth and so provide us with a three-dimensional image . |
| 15 | On the second day we went out climbing again but the assessors — there was one for every two candidates — constantly posed us with problems to find out how we would deal with rescues and emergencies . |
| 16 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 17 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 18 | I only want us to be together , always . ’ |
| 19 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 20 | For the face as simulacrum can only refer us to yet another image , there being no true face behind the mask . |
| 21 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 22 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 23 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 24 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 25 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 26 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 27 | We had a couple of bottles of champagne to greet the travellers , and Gabby and her husband came in to help us with them and we all toasted Nigel 's ‘ recovery ’ . |
| 28 | Erm Lisa is that I 'm not quite sure , from the York University student rooms , is in to help us with the big box pile up . |
| 29 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 30 | This view of what we infer from reading ( 9 ) will only provide us with a limited insight into how readers interpret what they read . |