Example sentences of "[v-ing] us [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | However , the range of scientific techniques will also grow , no doubt enabling us to provenance materials with greater speed and accuracy in the future . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Montague and the sergeant-major called incessantly , keeping us in line . |
| 5 | Erm so he 's keeping us in limbo really |
| 6 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 7 | More recently we have learnt that the functioning of the immune system , that exquisitely coordinated mechanism protecting us from disease , is intimately tied in to levels of stress . |
| 8 | ‘ They were pressing us like hell to sign , ’ said Mr Murray . |
| 9 | It 's just that we 've received soooooo many queries asking ‘ when ’ , ‘ who ’ and ‘ … how much ’ that we 've decided to give you the full story here ( maybe NOW you 'll stop inundating us with begging letters ! ) |
| 10 | She 's meeting us for lunch , by the way . ’ |
| 11 | We do n't need to see er leaflets and so on urging us into merger before they 're actually ready to take place from the membership itself . |
| 12 | ‘ I have always gotten the sense that museums , which are very active in lobbying us for money , take the essential position : ‘ Give us the money and leave us alone ’ ’ , Brodsky announced at a hearing last week . |
| 13 | ‘ Worrying us to death ! ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They ca n't go on governing us in limbo , as if they were neutral and Dublin was a benign and interested party , ’ he says , grey moustache bristling . |
| 15 | Not that this stops the tragic artist from coaxing us into awareness of the normally intolerable , taking advantage of ways in which things terrible in experience become agreeable in imagination . |
| 16 | " Eight they start getting us to bed . " |
| 17 | With all the problems facing us at home , what have the rainforests got to do with us ? |
| 18 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |
| 19 | Yet it is precisely at this point that students — afraid of boring us with repetition — ; search for new material , abandoning their first ideas perhaps for the rest of the piece . |
| 20 | Then again , we 've had Echo & The Bunnymen supporting us in front of 3,000 Seig Heil-ing loonies throwing bottles and chairs at them . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | However — we do need your continuous support in providing us with information . |
| 23 | Will you be joining us for lunch ? |
| 24 | ‘ Something tells me you wo n't be joining us for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 25 | I appreciate that the hon. Gentleman did not have the pleasure of joining us in Committee . |
| 26 | Parliamentary sovereignty is still intact in so far as Parliament can still repeal the act committing us to entry . |
| 27 | It is only through the agency of the Holy Spirit , enabling us to repent and believe , convicting us of sin and making Jesus attractive to us , that we ever become Christians . |
| 28 | In a few days they 'll be back here begging us for food . ’ |
| 29 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 30 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |