Example sentences of "[adv] [noun prp] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh I thought you was buying that one so Ann told us . |
| 2 | So Ann told us , so that 's |
| 3 | So Gillian told us just to , i if she could phone nan . |
| 4 | He was a vegetarian and teetotaller and , in Hobbes 's view ( so Aubrey tells us ) , ‘ the sweetest-natured man in the world ’ . |
| 5 | We have only Gough to guide us on this , but he has some amazing tales to tell . |
| 6 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 7 | So Tarbuck asked us all if we 'd like an ice-cream . |
| 8 | So Quinn gives us a picture of top executives developing mental , or at least private , images of corporate development and , in effect , testing out their ideas through experiments in separable parts of the company . |
| 9 | So Steve marches us off to find decent accommodation . |
| 10 | Eventually Birru brought us the ducks that Habta Mariam had cooked . |
| 11 | We asked him many questions , and finally Johann gave us the information we wanted . |
| 12 | British Rail was ruling out King 's Cross at that stage , yet two or three years later BR tells us that King 's Cross is essential . |
| 13 | Now Kraft brings us Dairylea Light Portions . |
| 14 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 15 | erm well , Li erm she , she goes well Lizzie told us that erm that your taxi was in front of hers , I went oh no no no , that was n't me that was someone else . |
| 16 | Well Margaret guided us to ruddy Conway in er , anyway , we got there and we had a bit of a bar snack did n't we ? |
| 17 | We went round to Rum Cove , the nearest landing place for Ben Gunn 's cave of treasure , then Gray left us there before rowing back to guard the ship for the night . |
| 18 | The overall picture presented in his article is a little less clear than it might be , if only because of the multiplicity of interesting observations ( fortunately Bolinger provides us with copious examples ) but it may be summarized as follows : ( a ) Adjectives may qualify either the referent of a noun or its sense without simultaneously applying to the other . |
| 19 | ‘ If this is a taste of things to come , then God help us all , ’ said John Hall , secretary of a multi-party peace group . |
| 20 | If not , then God help us . |
| 21 | This induction session lasted about three-quarters of an hour , and then Brian took us outside , past the ever-watchful buzzard . |
| 22 | We talked and you left , then Damien ushered us out and went back to the prie-dieu . |
| 23 | Then Kier tells us about the time she saw a UFO . |
| 24 | Then Tony asked us to find him office facilities . |
| 25 | Yet Wordsworth tells us that he was by upbringing and inclination a natural Democrat ( Prelude 1805 , ix , 217 ff ) . |
| 26 | Yet Weyl points us to ‘ the underlying generality ’ . |