Example sentences of "[am/are] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is somewhat unfortunate because by the fourteenth of January we are supposed to agree a purchase plan with the health authority , and it 's a little difficult to do that in the absence of the knowledge of what conditions are attaching us to where and how you can spend the money . |
| 2 | Another possible version of foundationalism holds that there are some beliefs which are given us as ‘ data ’ , and which are fully justified unless something arises to defeat their justification ( cf. the use of defeasibility in 2.3 ) . |
| 3 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ No , you are helping us with our enquiries . ’ |
| 5 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 6 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 7 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 8 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't understand why they 're keeping us in here , ’ he grumbled . |
| 10 | ‘ I have n't the faintest idea what you 're thanking us for . ’ |
| 11 | They 're persecuting us for our beliefs . ’ |
| 12 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 13 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |
| 14 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 15 | They 've stopped their work just now and they 're joining us for our morning worship along with some children from James Gillespie 's High School Choir . |
| 16 | Tony , you 're joining us from Freeland , and your views . |
| 17 | They 're taking us for granted ! |
| 18 | If you 're comparing us with primary and secondary schools we have to remember that the erm the great erm age bulge pass has passed through the primary schools and is passing through the secondary schools and is still to reach higher education . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Because of your health , pet , they 're putting us on the priority list , say we did n't ought to be below-ground , nor too high . |
| 21 | The Government are leading us to a shambles . |
| 22 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 23 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 24 | All this trouble they are giving us despite the fact that I have a UK passport . |
| 25 | But may I point out to you , Dr. Briant , that I for one — and I think it likely that the audience feels much as I do — find the material you are giving us in so admirably concise and ordered a manner is not as intelligible as it might be , since we are ordinary simple souls ? |
| 26 | In these areas , Labour and the Liberal Democrats are threatening us with more of what has brought us down . |
| 27 | I 'm getting us off this planet as fast as I can . ’ |
| 28 | Mr. Andrew Welsh ( Angus , East ) : The Government are taking us into unknown waters with the changes in the legislation . |
| 29 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 30 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |