Example sentences of "[prep] us [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
| 2 | Below us the broad terraces of Hatshepsut 's temple were set into the curving amphitheatre of the cliffs . |
| 3 | I am suggesting an arrangement which I believe might bring both of us a great deal of pleasure . |
| 4 | Christmas is for most of us a magical moment in the year when we gather with our families , sing familiar carols and see the delight in the eyes of the children as they open their stockings and presents . |
| 5 | It was for both of us a temporary refuge from a reality which was n't giving either of us much joy . |
| 6 | First he would give each of us a whole penny ( for ice-cream at the terminus ) . |
| 7 | I suppose that makes the rest of us a little bonkers . |
| 8 | One standing at the entrance gave each one of us a little push at the right moment for the walk across in front of the platform to another gentleman standing in the middle . |
| 9 | I bet i , I mean I bet he 's the sort of cyclist and car driver that gives the rest of us a fucking bad name ! |
| 10 | Wilkerson bent down and handed each one of us a big ice cream carton . |
| 11 | There is , however , deep within all of us a natural ability to find pattern in random form , as demonstrated by the Rorschach ink-blot test , and research by Philip Reeder suggests that certain forms on the map tend to be picked out consistently as zodiac material . |
| 12 | For most of us the intervening year has added another milestone to the many we have already passed . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | To a number of us the crucial omission was any help for industry , which was going through an appalling time . |
| 15 | 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 . ’ |
| 16 | For most of us the mental picture of an experiment goes back to school laboratories . |
| 17 | We have already looked at some aspects of what makes each one of us the distinctive , uniquely individual people that we are . |
| 18 | Ahead of us the tall pines that stretch out across the frozen plain of Estonia distinguished themselves from the snow-coated sky and earth . |
| 19 | We wended our way home , glowing with triumph ( and blood pressure ! ) , each of us the proud possessor of a plastic , imitation silver , trophy . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | ‘ 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 . |
| 23 | In other words , not only do we not have in front of us an exact cost for the works that are being voted through in this Bill — we have to go on the basis of an outdated figure of £1.4 billion , which is in itself an enormous amount — but the Government are saying that they do not have the foggiest idea whether the amount involved will accord with their investment criteria . |
| 24 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 25 | Behind us an impatient motorist tooted a horn . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Behind us the ghostly apparition of Sister Twister is disappearing down south like a lonely wispy drunk . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Now spent , exhausted , heavier than ever , we pull ourselves off this fun-float , this transport of delight , to see beneath us a crushed flower , a stamped upon camellia , its pollen and sap smeared like blood on the infertile ground , the dry ground , the any old iron , lurking-tetanus ground . |
| 30 | We clerks might have found comfort if we had known that many floors above us a few of the bank 's more senior personnel were smuggling personal computers into the building in a bid to free themselves . |