Example sentences of "[be] [verb] us in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I do n't understand why they 're keeping us in here , ’ he grumbled . |
| 2 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 3 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | We are absolutely thrilled that Daiwa will be helping us in such an effective way . |
| 8 | They 'll be expecting us in the house . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Sometimes we may be able to identify a particular stress or problem which may be affecting us in our inability to sleep . |
| 13 | Perhaps you will be putting us in jail ! " |
| 14 | As we said , we would n't be on the picket line now , and indeed the Union would not be backing us in what is proving to be a long and fairly expensive dispute , if we did n't believe that we had a very good chance of getting our jobs back and re-establishing the Union in Pergammon Press . |
| 15 | They 'll be teasing us in the club mother wo n't they ? |
| 16 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 17 | ‘ Master Shallot , ’ she called in her beautiful French voice , ‘ my husband says you are to join us in France . ’ |
| 18 | Erm so he 's keeping us in limbo really |
| 19 | ‘ Gillian 's uncle is fetching us in his car , Brown Owl , ’ replied Carol . |
| 20 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 21 | Two five five , the reason why the Executive asked for withdrawal was because it 's moving us a bit too fast along this track , and it 's moving us in a particular direction before we 've had the time to think about whether that 's the right direction to go . |
| 22 | It 's like it 's there and it 's staring us in the face but I just ca n't … ca n't access it . ’ |
| 23 | It is staring us in the face . |
| 24 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 25 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 26 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 27 | erm We 've got to recognise the professional advice that Matthew is giving us in this report , that he , he needs professional trained staff , and it grieves me that really we can only offer a technician when he is asking for something more . |
| 28 | Fortunately was interested and immediately delved into his record collection and started to play some old rock 'n' roll LP 's to get us in the mood . |
| 29 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 30 | For myself , I remember going home after the AGM at which the idea to start the new church was first announced , wondering if it was to involve us in leadership . |