Example sentences of "['s] [noun sg] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 2 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 3 | It coincided with the Suez Canal Crisis and Nasser 's decision to kick us out in 1956 . |
| 4 | The rebuilding programme has started and Peter 's decision to join us comes at just the right time . |
| 5 | From the idealised symbols of romance and exoticism , through the agonised posturing of the beauty parlour , Messager 's story leads us inevitably to reconstructions of childhood memories , toys stacked and stifled , infiltrated by the fetishism of photography . |
| 6 | The Lord 's Prayer teaches us that we should forgive in the same measure we have been forgiven . |
| 7 | Mazzin 's presence filled us with foreboding . |
| 8 | The fact is that Orwell 's route takes us through a largely white part of England . |
| 9 | ‘ You mean in case Blenkinsop 's successor puts us back on short rations ? |
| 10 | Former President Bush indicated America 's readiness to offer US military lift , logistics , communications and intelligence capabilities to support peace-keeping operations . |
| 11 | Fauré 's Adieu enveloped us . |
| 12 | A brief look at the content of the women 's programme gives us a flavour of how homosexuality was represented : a good deal of time was devoted to an interview with Steve , a prospective female-to-male transsexual ( displaying a common confusion with homosexuality and transsexuality ) . |
| 13 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 14 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 15 | Jesus is the one called to the Father 's side to help us , according to the Epistle . |
| 16 | The Spirit is the one called from the Father 's side to help us , according to the Gospel . |
| 17 | While the Australian and Pakistan examples quoted above serve to illustrate the variety of provisions and problems which may emerge under the rubric of ‘ rural education ‘ , Sher 's thinking leads us to an awareness of the uniqueness of the situation in a country school whatever its location . |
| 18 | Noting that 3\3 , 3\45 , … , unc and unc we see that Eisenstein 's theorem tells us that the polynomial in brackets is irreducible in Z[x] . |
| 19 | In particular , Oakeshott 's conception provides us with an insightful critique of Dicey 's method in Law of the Constitution . |
| 20 | ‘ The centre 's management supplied us with the display screens , upon which we quickly pinned up posters , photographs and press-cuttings . |
| 21 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 22 | It would , as the rector 's sermon reminded us , disrupt the unity of the body of Christ . |
| 23 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 24 | If we need God 's help to enable us as individuals to taste reality , then our marriages need God even more . |
| 25 | The rest of Queen Margaret 's household ignored us , taken up with preparations for their own journey back to London . |
| 26 | Because in 1982 , when I was nine years old , my father 's work brought us to North Cornwall , where the landscapes are among the most magical on Earth and the legend of King Arthur still burns . |
| 27 | BEAUTIFUL , flexible sounds , delicately turned phrases , and the sort of energy which skips rather than strides — the King 's Consort at the Queen 's Hall reminded us that civilisation is not entirely destroyed . |
| 28 | The projects 's director told us how important Oxfam 's help is . |
| 29 | Will my right hon. Friend consider rearranging next week 's business to enable us to have an urgent debate on industrial relations , bearing in mind that our reforms over the past 12 years have brought industrial relations to a new level of success ? |
| 30 | Tom 's move reassured us that he , Frank and Terry were all right and were probably together . |