Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After the birth Tony and I both felt very shaky and the midwife got us some tea right away , while they were tidying me up , just to calm us down . |
| 2 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |
| 3 | Novelty plays an important part in all of our lives yet there is always something of a balance to be struck between having so much novelty that life becomes unbearably unpredictable and wearing , and the opposite where sameness drives us mad with boredom . |
| 4 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 5 | His kindness amazed us all . |
| 6 | Shareen , you 're very much part of the er , the attempt to help us all use alcohol a little bit more sensibly , what , what , what is this strategy ? |
| 7 | He handed me a toffee , climbed into his car , beckoned me to sit on the other front seat for a few minutes , and removed the celluloid sidescreen to give us more fresh air . |
| 8 | It is a perverse practice to give us absurd , and even offensive , details that we do n't need , while omitting the crucial detail that we do . |
| 9 | We do n't need all that much from each club to keep us afloat but if we do n't get your help , I am very concerned that in the present recession we shall not be able to keep up our work and in conclusion Your Royal Highness perhaps I could just say that the Seamanship Foundation is very grateful to the R Y A , to the Treasurer , Chris and particularly to the Senior Managers who have done everything they can to help the foundation , thank you . |
| 10 | six hundred pounds , the pitch fees about seven hundred pounds , bowls club pay us three hundred and fifty pounds , the tennis club for the two years , subscriptions will be twelve hundred pounds , the fair three hundred and fifty pound for two visits , erm one hundred and seventy five each visit , and the rugby club will pay us about three hundred pounds for the use of the pitch on ground . |
| 11 | I think youll find us fellow Leeds Fans here a nice bunch , although we do have some OLD men ( Kev ) , so if they start on about John Charles … do nt worry . |
| 12 | As the same study of the executive and legislative roles in the Vietnam war points out , another of the provisions of the 1949 Mutual Defense Assistance Act — approved with almost no debate — authorized the President to send US armed forces as non-combatant military advisers to any ‘ agency or nation ’ in the world . |
| 13 | I pay tribute to them tonight for the work that they have undertaken in an attempt to keep us aware of what is happening out there . |
| 14 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 15 | The Guidance tells us that " minor shortcomings in health care or minor deficits in physical , psychological or social development " should not justify proceedings unless they are having , or are likely to have , " serious and lasting effects on the child " ( para 3.21 ) . |
| 16 | The Guidance tells us that interim orders represent a substantial , if temporary , intervention in the child 's life and " should not be regarded as routine parts of an application for a full care or supervision order " ( vol 1 , para 3.38 ) . |
| 17 | But the episode tells us more than perhaps Adam of Eynsham intended . |
| 18 | While such links proliferate in affluent countries , the global scope of drugs-related crime , political violence and AIDS reminds us that poor countries are far from immune . |
| 19 | Eventually , though , they got their man , and the wait was worth it because the greatest vocal stylist in rock gave us two hours of inspired Gaelic mumbo-jumbo that was tough , joyful , sometimes sad , but ultimately fluid , festive and free , a celebration , a party for 1,800 delighted fans . |
| 20 | A useful mnemonic reminds us that movement with the heavens is passive ; movement against the sun and moon and the stars is aggressive and/or courageous ! |
| 21 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 22 | Former President Bush indicated America 's readiness to offer US military lift , logistics , communications and intelligence capabilities to support peace-keeping operations . |
| 23 | Now they 've got the bloody nerve to charge us half when we live there I do n't think she 'd dare say anything to me about it . |
| 24 | New details from the South Down Machine Knitting Club inform us that afternoon meetings will be held on the second Monday in the month between 2 pm and 4 pm . |
| 25 | The variability in the clinical course of pediatric inflammatory bowel disease as described in this study makes us reluctant to advise a regimen such as alternate day corticosteroids from the time of diagnosis . |
| 26 | We rarely get out at night , because keeping up with the little fella leaves us dog-tired . |
| 27 | Being able to anticipate the demands of the future makes us less vulnerable to stress . |
| 28 | In order to get a job at the end of the war , she and Siegfried need to obtain what she calls a ‘ Persil-Schein certificate denazifying us whiter than white ’ ( 79/473 ) . |
| 29 | We began with a selection of starters , including delicious soft shell crabs , tiny spring rolls and some more anodyne prawns deep fried in rice paper , whose combined oiliness made us hanker after a wedge of westernised lemon . |
| 30 | The 1940s and war made seditious literature a vital concern ; the 1950s and anti-communism made left-wing literature seem so threatening ; the 1960s and permissiveness eventually caused us to think we could go too far with ‘ indecent ’ and ‘ obscene ’ books ; and the 1970s and 1980s and the move towards a more multicultural society and the assertiveness of nationality made us conscious of the damage of racist and religiously intolerant literature . |