Example sentences of "[adv] [vb pp] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 2 | If you had only delivered us from Egypt : Dayenu ! … |
| 3 | If you 've just joined us for the eight o'clock news , as many people do , welcome . |
| 4 | Well , I 've got , if you you just bear with me a moment , I still have one foot dragging in H one , but I thought we 'd got to the stage where in order to try and clarify thinking on the matter we ought to progress onto H two , erm , that just let me reveal the thinking , erm that , before I do that can I just say in terms of mechanics those of you who have just joined us for the first time , could you turn your name boards round so I can see them , thank you , and when you want to come in the normal practice is to put your name board on end , so it will attract our attention . |
| 5 | He says : ‘ There are great forces at work , and they 've already embraced us in a world market , they 're sweeping us towards a European destiny . |
| 6 | He had n't just met us in Thunder Bay . |
| 7 | Kirov has already supplied us with a list of the elite Soviet squadrons equipped with the modified Foxbats . |
| 8 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 9 | I believe that the accounts , whilst complying as John has just told us with the Companies Act , do give , I hope , as full and an informative picture as possible and therefore I do n't intend to talk about them in detail . |
| 10 | On making those further enquiries you 've just told us about at the police station . |
| 11 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |
| 12 | So I wo n't go through the rest of it , it 's a long and er it 's just brought us on the same sort of thing , but what it proves is that we are getting somewhere and that is what I thought was rather important news , which I want to do . |
| 13 | Perhaps , he thinks , this has finally brought us to our senses . |
| 14 | It 's just that the preceding F&W 's EPs have already lured us to bed with wine and roses and five of the tracks are here ; familiar as those passport photos you keep forgetting to chuck out of your wallet . |
| 15 | ‘ To be fair , it 's a hell of an act to follow when you consider Gordon has already led us to two championships in the space of three seasons . |
| 16 | ‘ The police have already asked us about this . |
| 17 | DTC have already subjected us to a six-day , 20-minute daily service and a half hourly evening service . |
| 18 | That is to say that no matter how much we are improving our performance , the associations have already beaten us to it and that , Mr Mayor , I would suggest is a very good case for transferring all our stock to housing associations and there is one final point I would like to make Mr Mayor . |
| 19 | Parke , aged 17 , had already showed us with two wins in the previous two days that he has great ability . |
| 20 | A lot of couples involved with our singles ministry have taken the challenge of ‘ hands-off ’ courting and have since thanked us for it , even though at the time they wondered if they could not get by with something a bit less conservative . |
| 21 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 22 | Roger usually introduced us to his girl-friends across the breakfast table , so this one had to be important and in the two weeks before her arrival I asked Rog to teach me a formal French greeting . |
| 23 | The aesthetic evidenced in these rooms has also brought us to the brink of World War Ill . |
| 24 | I also made a documentary about the U-boat campaign which in two world wars had nearly brought us to our knees ; and I have always regretted that after the last war , when we sank so many of them in deep water , we did not keep one as a trophy and bring it up the Thames into the heart of London : it would have been a perennial attraction for every schoolboy in the country . |
| 25 | I am delighted to see that he has also dissociated us from the objectionable features of article 104B regarding fiscal deficits . |
| 26 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |
| 27 | It 's really dropped us in it . |
| 28 | ‘ It has really played us into the game and I think the Prime Minister has made a considerable mistake . |
| 29 | Modernity understood as the modern world in crisis has now hit us with such force that writers of many different political persuasions are addressing the issue ( cf. |
| 30 | I can well believe that he has always been in favour of a social charter in Europe , but he has never before asked us to be in Europe enjoying its disadvantages . |