Example sentences of "[be] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 32 | All this trouble they are giving us despite the fact that I have a UK passport . |
| 33 | But may I point out to you , Dr. Briant , that I for one — and I think it likely that the audience feels much as I do — find the material you are giving us in so admirably concise and ordered a manner is not as intelligible as it might be , since we are ordinary simple souls ? |
| 34 | She 's been recording us for an hour |
| 35 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 36 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 37 | In these areas , Labour and the Liberal Democrats are threatening us with more of what has brought us down . |
| 38 | You know , you 're worried about us threatening you on your borders , you 've been threatening us on our borders you get rid of yours we 'll get rid of ours , fair ? |
| 39 | We are absolutely thrilled that Daiwa will be helping us in such an effective way . |
| 40 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 41 | There are no conditions specifically attached under the IDO but of course we have obligations — the county minerals officer will be pursuing us for restoration quite rightly — what we 'd like to do is go beyond the basic restoration and make it much better . |
| 42 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 43 | Yet familiarity may be blinding us to equal intelligence expressed by animals far closer to home . |
| 44 | ‘ What will she be testing us on this afternoon ? ’ a small girl asked . |
| 45 | Our client should be presenting us with a sheaf of paper with pink ribbon round it , saying , we would like a tender on that , fixed fee , by two weeks on Tuesday , or whatever . |
| 46 | I 'm getting us off this planet as fast as I can . ’ |
| 47 | They 'll be expecting us in the house . ’ |
| 48 | Will you be joining us for lunch ? |
| 49 | ‘ … and this is Folly , who will be joining us for the first time this weekend . |
| 50 | ‘ Something tells me you wo n't be joining us for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 51 | ‘ I gather you 're going to be joining us for the world cruise ? ’ |
| 52 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 53 | Unfortunately , however , Tony Walker will not be joining us until mid July , but I hope branches will be able to get going under their own steam in the meantime . |
| 54 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 55 | ‘ If Britain were seen as the cause of Maastricht 's failure , relegation to the second division of influence would be staring us in the face , ’ he warned . |
| 56 | We have done some work with your offices on that , and whilst on most of your activities are n't happy with er the scale of such that it does cause me a problem , there is one particular area that we are in discussion with the Chief Executive , and your offices relating to doing work for other bodies to and the contract vehicle hire service , and er , that 's something which we will and no doubt will be brought us in the very near future . |
| 57 | I felt that hidden eyes must be observing us from behind bushes and tree-trunks . |
| 58 | Some people back there would be cursing us for raising so much dust . |
| 59 | My son will be out in six months and Mrs Gillick will be taking us under her wing in the absence of your good self . |
| 60 | Sometimes we may be able to identify a particular stress or problem which may be affecting us in our inability to sleep . |