Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb -s] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 2 | ‘ Once she tells us where the book is or she leads us to it , she dies . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ She keeps us on our toes . |
| 4 | We do n't mind you giving us rubbish , provided you charges us for it as rubbish . ’ |
| 5 | Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really does n't care how she oppresses us as Black women . |
| 6 | She regards us as a bunch of peasants . |
| 7 | If you tells us about your condition and accept the risks , we 're usually quite happy to accept your booking for all yacht holidays except Pot Luck or Share a Yacht . |
| 8 | Every time one of us dares contribute to the debate , she tells us with thriftiness of spirit and consonants of flint that we have no common sense . |
| 9 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
| 10 | She tells us about one she came across the other day . |
| 11 | She tells us about the two deaths of co-skipper Alexei Grishenko and Janne Gustavsson both friends for whom she grieved . |
| 12 | She presents us with a glistening floor bordered by a number of bells hanging from long ropes , each lit from above to produce its own pool of light . |
| 13 | In each work she presents us with an unexpected anxiety , the memory before a human crisis . |
| 14 | In the course of her book , she gives us by far the most detailed and interesting portrait of Mary ever written , free from the excesses of adulation or attack which characterize so much of the writing about her . |
| 15 | She brings us to a town where the sky is full of burning , the old synagogue about to be engulfed ; white doves wheel round the rooftops , beat their wings , drive off the flames . |
| 16 | Then she leaves us to each other . |
| 17 | She provides us with numerous natural expressions of intention . |
| 18 | She treats us to her speciality sad gaze to camera , so we can see that rather society 's collapsing or her piles are hurting , and then we 're off to the next item . |
| 19 | There are arguments for all possible positions , but none of them convinces us for long ( see chapters 1 and 5 ) . |
| 20 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 21 | Our closeness to him involves us in his struggle . |
| 22 | The ozone layer is located at an average height of 12 kilometres above the earth 's surface an it screens us from 99% of the harmful ultra-violet radiation coming from the sun . |
| 23 | He hates us for our dress and our bloodlust . |
| 24 | it points us towards the reasons for visiting ancient sites : each has its own unique atmosphere which we can literally take into our very being . |
| 25 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 26 | Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy . |
| 27 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
| 28 | For an example of this , he refers us to a code of practice of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry , with which some firms who are not members of the association nevertheless voluntarily agree to comply . |
| 29 | What we require is a formulation of that universal imperative to take into account in choices which imposes its authority whenever something is recognized to exist , whenever it confronts us as not illusory but real . |
| 30 | It is also shocking because it confronts us with her body , an old woman 's body with cancer , only touched when it is being cut or hit . |