Example sentences of "[adv] [v-ing] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 3 | Another suggestion one tends to hear is that animals should live on our farms but not be killed , only providing us with milk , wool and manure . |
| 4 | No one of the theories we have set down is all wrong , any more than any one perspective is all right so providing us with a single key to " explain " British politics . |
| 5 | I commiserate with my hon. Friend on his misfortune this evening , in finding himself inadvertently supporting us in the Lobby . |
| 6 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |
| 7 | The panel contains a cantharus which is comparable to that in the central roundel of mosaic B , North Hill.7 In the latter , the base and lower body of the cantharus do not survive , so depriving us of valuable comparative evidence . |
| 8 | In fact where toxic substances are odorous , the odour can have a positive effect on health , effectively warning us of their presence . |
| 9 | ‘ Of course , we have to make sure they are not just using us for cannon fodder , ’ she says . |
| 10 | It appears that P.wickerhamii has accumulated far less mutations in its mtDNA compared to higher plants than Chlamydomonas , thus providing us with a well suited model organism to study the plant-algal mitochondrial lineage for the first time . |
| 11 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 12 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 13 | I mean , I mean they are , they 're , they really are you know , we 're so complacent in this country , Mr Cameron , I , I do n't know , do you know , they 're just hitting us in every direction , my goodness me , you , you know , you 'll be afraid to breathe without they 'll want to target that . |
| 14 | Virtually the whole process has been controlled by Personnel staff thus freeing us from many of the conventional DP constraints . |
| 15 | Or is he secretly selling us to the South ? |
| 16 | The photograph itself is marred by the double-exposure of a dining-room laid out for a party , subconsciously reminding us to ‘ eat , drink and be merry , for tomorrow we die ’ . |
| 17 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 18 | Denise has a young baby and she was a very popular landlady , always greeting us with a smile . ’ |
| 19 | Lastly it 'll be doing a session on the desktop , defining the components and again hopefully taking us past its St Patrick 's Day position . |
| 20 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |
| 21 | He is forever telling us what he will do and why , forever taking us into his confidence . |
| 22 | There were very few houses in the road at that time ; it was just a lane , leading to nowhere , and Mrs Browning was the first to acknowledge our presence by formally inviting us to tea . |
| 23 | Now the tory party are forever lecturing us about choice are they not . |
| 24 | One particularly persistent gentleman was clearly using us as a punchbag for his English . |
| 25 | We can work with the class to create a story in which they all have a stake , slowing it down at particular moments , thereby creating strong dramatic tension , deepening understanding and also enabling us to value publicly the contribution of particular children . |
| 26 | He is a zealous Cassandra , frantically warning us about the Trojan Horse of Monsieur Delors 's federalism . |
| 27 | But it 's probably costing us about er , three quarters of a million to a million just now net . |
| 28 | He 's probably watching us from behind one of these pillars , making his mind up . |
| 29 | As a compact and multi-functional element colour denies verisimilitude , implying the ethereal , whilst simultaneously reminding us of the world of concrete phenomena . |
| 30 | Believing our intellectual abilities to be God-given , he presumably thought that , had they not been sufficient for our needs , God would not have supplemented them by innately endowing us with anything other than truth . |