Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response astounded us and delighted Durham County Cricket Club , who are backing the tournament . |
| 2 | In other words , the very fact that we do not consider we are worth loving causes us to put up barriers that ensure people will not have the opportunity to love us . |
| 3 | On that occasion we hope that as many people as possible will take the opportunity to visit us . |
| 4 | erm Rusty in the fact that erm we have n't been able to sort of erm get out on the field with a ball in our hand , erm but erm our coach erm Ian McMillan has taken the opportunity to drag us into the gym and give us quite erm hard fitness sessions , so the fitness is still erm quite high on our side , but erm handling the ball will be a little bit rusty , but hopefully this week , now all the snow 's gone , we 'll be able to get out and erm move the ball about at training . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman — a Scottish Member — refused to take the opportunity to tell us what he would do about his Scottish problem at Ravenscraig , but he has views about the west midlands . |
| 6 | ‘ With any data at their disposal ’ — the terminology puts us back into Louis Agassiz' laboratory . |
| 7 | We clean him up and the caveman makes us look cool . |
| 8 | Onions are the link to take us to the nearby open market where we see these and other vegetables on display . |
| 9 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 10 | Guitarist The Edge took the mike to give us ‘ Numb ’ , while Bono and the rest of the lads took to a satellite stage to deliver the soothing and pulse-filled ‘ The First Time ’ . |
| 11 | It is not crucial to start a new line each time a new person speaks , as long as the writer makes us know the speaker . |
| 12 | All four books reveal a steady concern with imitation and interpretation , and to read them together is to be clearer about what it is that the writer intends us to think that he thinks about things . |
| 13 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 14 | Measurements of bismuth in serum samples during the trial enabled us to monitor whether significant accumulation occurred . |
| 15 | The bridge , as the mannikin told us , was a favourite place for people to commit suicide . |
| 16 | One of these took Venturous to the Bristol Channel and the South Wales ' ports , and a later one was made to the north of Scotland with the Board joining us at Aberdeen . |
| 17 | They frequently leave sufficient of the shell to allow us to recognise its original size and shape . |
| 18 | The following morning my crew and I were up at 4 am when the tide lifted us . |
| 19 | For instance , the basic activity in ( 2 ) is painting the general ; but the sentence tells us more specifically that it is an activity carried out in a way that envisages the general as seated . |
| 20 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 21 | From measurements of pressure and CSA the technique allowed us to derive several biomechanical parameters . |
| 22 | Sometimes , he said we used to take them motorway he said to junction whatever at Dover and they 'd be somebody waiting there with the money give us the car we 'd go back to London and they 'd just take it up the . |
| 23 | ‘ You are talking to the despatcher in Schreiber , ’ he said , ‘ — that 's ahead of us , this side of Thunder Bay — and he can radio straight to the Canadian following us . |
| 24 | None of this would be worth remark if the narrative carried us along by virtue of its own strength , but it hardly does . |
| 25 | At one point in Vikram Seth 's novel in verse The Golden Gate ( Faber , 1986 ) , the author interrupts the narrative to tell us that his idea for the book had not been well received when he had mentioned it to a publisher : |
| 26 | Familiarity with both the form and the content of the text helps us to understand its meaning . |
| 27 | However , the text invites us , as a result of the parallels and correspondences between the two worlds , to consider the first-person sequences as occurring oneirically in Boris 's mind : thus the disruptions in the narrative could be interpreted as the symptom of his distorted ordering of experience . |
| 28 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 29 | ‘ 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 . |
| 30 | We said he was stronger than he looked , but the vet turned us away and told us to bring him back when he was bigger . |