Example sentences of "[conj] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Barnet were the best side I 've seen this season and we have to admit they were better than us on the day but Northampton was one of those things . |
| 2 | You will quickly realise , however , that it is a fact of life that the Magpies and the Mackems , despite having had consistently poorer teams than us over the last decade , will always grab the headlines . |
| 3 | ‘ Somebody did tell me he thought they might be a tiny bit stronger than us at the moment . |
| 4 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 5 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 6 | ‘ If for any reason the runners were able to go faster than us in the marathon , I 'm sure they would organise it differently for them . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 8 | A more important point is that passages of this sort , spliced as they are with images like the lizard from the immediate foreground of Pound 's tent inside the wire-mesh cage of the prison camp , do not come into being out of the free associations of idle reverie , though in these Pisan cantos Pound exploits the illusion of that , as Joyce did in Ulysses when he pretended to transport himself and us into the mind of Leopold Bloom . |
| 9 | which should be grate , because , he 's mum , I mean we love her dearly , but she has to go to Lenny 's in , dinner time and us in the evening every year |
| 10 | Aye , she does n't bother but us in the next room , ah , bother us . |
| 11 | Now did you say you 've got the same trouble as us with the conden , condensa |