Example sentences of "[adv] [vb -s] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It only takes us three quarters of an hour . |
| 2 | It must be borne in mind that this distribution , while , likely to be typical of the 1910 sample as a whole , does reflect that sample sage structure : the information comes from marriages logged very largely between 1910 and 1920 and obviously tells us more about the families that sent their daughter to the trade in the 1900s than about the earlier decades . |
| 3 | That perhaps gives us some idea of what the regional taxation profile will look like . |
| 4 | Which perhaps brings us full circle back to the Ski Chalet holidays run by ‘ Ski Whizz/Small World ’ in France , Austria , Switzerland and the Dolomites . |
| 5 | Jean , we 'll go down to where 's the fifty P shop or something and buy some of those do , er cornflakes ' plates or something , say they 're gon na fill those other ones up that the man give us a mere seven , eight ones , only leaves us four ordinary , you see I know for a fact that Sally say he was caught |
| 6 | That only leaves us two days to cope alone . |
| 7 | By having someone in our adult lives who constantly feeds us verbal tranquillizers , or by feeding them to ourselves we can ease emotional pains and keep them at bay for a while . |
| 8 | Or we may say we do not want treatment which ‘ just keeps us alive without any hope of a cure ’ . |
| 9 | it just gives us that extra bit of loading |
| 10 | Fucking gives us certain rights over each other ? |
| 11 | Much of what the latter says about information theory , feedback and signal detection is old hat , but he generously leaves us one or two bones to pick . |
| 12 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
| 13 | Whenever we 're organising fund raising events , it usually takes us several weeks to get everything organised . |
| 14 | And that then still gives us four or five weeks to put anything right . |
| 15 | But that still makes us sedentary , like most other people . |
| 16 | Much medical opinion also assures us that hypnosis is not essential . |
| 17 | It clearly takes us some way , but there are still major difficulties . |
| 18 | The ‘ constant routine ’ experiment also tells us one other important fact about the two causes of our rhythms ; that normally they are similarly timed . |
| 19 | In the early books of The Prelude Wordsworth repeatedly tells us that natural objects are most important in forming the mind of the child , and hardly any polite references are made to the curriculum at Hawkshead Grammar School and Cambridge University . |
| 20 | He also reminds us that what is to be attempted is a ‘ cultural revolution and not some unimpeded process of social growth ’ ( Williams , 1983 : 273 ) . |
| 21 | This approach also gives us fascinating glimpses of the fallibility of great scientists . |
| 22 | In answering he correctly reminds us that young people are often of necessity in a subservient position as a result of their dependence on parents for food , clothing , and shelter ; teachers for schooling ; employers for employment ; skilled workers for instruction in apprenticed trades ; and on youth workers for leisure activities . |
| 23 | The cross-section data used so far gives us little indication about how many workers continue in employment long enough to recoup the wages that were deferred earlier in their career . |
| 24 | ‘ You have to play more than one way to win the Championship and having him back gives us more options . |
| 25 | What really makes us trustworthy is not ourselves , but our faith in God . |
| 26 | But , he , he comes a , and really hits us hard ! |
| 27 | I E at the moment this pattern fed into these functions here gives us three matching functions . |
| 28 | Having swept through the shops with A Place of Stones , this Irish writer is now a book a year person , and here gives us another tale about twins , only this time about boys . |
| 29 | These cups have little colour , but the subtle strength of the drawing , in spite of its miniature scale , surely brings us close to the great painting of the time . |
| 30 | The silly , extravagant , strange or ludicrous sound of an idea sometimes tells us more about ourselves , about our prejudices and resistance to change , than about the truth contained in the idea itself . ’ |