Example sentences of "[prep] us the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 2 | For most of us the intervening year has added another milestone to the many we have already passed . |
| 3 | Many people find it hard to counter the argument of ‘ people before buildings ’ that the Church puts forward , even though for most of us the visible presence of a church — whether still in religious use or not — is an important and reassuring symbol of faith to all who pass by . |
| 4 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 5 | An African nationalist commented to some of us the other day , ‘ When we take over , we may get rid of a lot of white people — but we want Don and Penny to stay . ’ |
| 6 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 7 | We have already looked at some aspects of what makes each one of us the distinctive , uniquely individual people that we are . |
| 8 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 9 | We wended our way home , glowing with triumph ( and blood pressure ! ) , each of us the proud possessor of a plastic , imitation silver , trophy . |
| 10 | For most of us the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the uphill battle to avoid a downhill slide is one of the hardest challenges in a sport where yesterday was a long time ago . |
| 11 | Many professional travellers say that there is nowhere left to travel , but for most of us the old maxim that anywhere is new if you have not been there before , is true , and there are plenty of places left to escape to . |
| 12 | ‘ For many of us the natural beauty of much of Dyfed 's countryside remains undisputed , though few people nowadays accept that this will always be so , regardless of economic or other pressures , ’ said Mr Bown . |
| 13 | In my view , the time has come to leave behind us the national humiliation and recriminations that have resulted from sterling 's suspension from the ERM . |
| 14 | Behind us the ghostly apparition of Sister Twister is disappearing down south like a lonely wispy drunk . |
| 15 | It is a call to us , too , to leave behind us the false self of our own independence , to celebrate how wholly dependent we are upon God . |
| 16 | In the spreaders forty feet above us the agile topmen , Basso and Rasman , executed hair-raising victory somersaults before shinning down the shrouds with the rough wires grasped between their toes . |
| 17 | Above us the slabby face was just visible through wildly animated curtains of driving spindrift . |
| 18 | High above us the celestial spheres of satellite communication look down upon us , observing any change in the weather , any reshuffle in the quiver of minutemen missiles in the United States ' desert arsenal , any time Mrs McGinty fails to hang out her Tuesday wash . |
| 19 | Above us the old house creaked and groaned . |
| 20 | Above us the decapitated heads of traitors , crowned with laurels or ivy , gazed down at us , their eyes and mouths turned black by the pecking of ravens . |
| 21 | We invited hon. Members from all Opposition parties to consult and debate with us the best form of taxation to replace the community charge . |
| 22 | to specify with us the total production team required whose terms and conditions of employment will , however , be our responsibility ; |
| 23 | to specify with us the total production team required whose terms and conditions of employment will , however , be our responsibility ; |
| 24 | to specify with us the total production team required whose terms and conditions of employment will , however , be our responsibility ; |
| 25 | Once we attain the transcendental standpoint , we have ceased to carry with us the substantive concept of truth required to raise epistemological questions . |
| 26 | On our way back to the main road , at the end of the day we persuaded the reluctant Halim to investigate with us the loud festivities issuing from an isolated group of stilt houses . |
| 27 | Like an enthusiastic guide in a foreign country , he is anxious to share with us the unexpected treasures he has found and which we might , without his help , have missed . |
| 28 | Almost immediately he began to share with us the intense enthusiasm of his Christian faith . |
| 29 | THE death of the Dowager Duchess of Rutland has taken from us the last and most loved of our nieces ( for niece she was , although older than the present writers by five and ten years ) . |
| 30 | He that will consider that the same fire that at one distance produces in us the sensation of warmth , does at a nearer approach produce in us the far different sensation of pain , ought to bethink himself what reason he has to say , that his idea of warmth which was produced in him by the fire , is actually in the fire , and his idea of pain which the same fire produced in him the same way is not in the fire . |