Example sentences of "[vb -s] us [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Any behaviour that causes us potential damage will be unacceptable . |
| 2 | We even have a tiny yellowhammer which visits us each morning . |
| 3 | He owes us some money for the , for the , the milk that was off . |
| 4 | He owes us some money but yeah rotten milk , he sold us a couple of pints of rotten mi the only trouble is Joan have fucking thrown it out . |
| 5 | that the most luxurious vegetation of spontaneous growth affords us certain proof that the soil which has produced it will prove equally favourable for the production of the usual objects of culture ( George Finlayson Mission to Siam and Hué … in the years 1821–2 ( 1826 ) p.57 ) |
| 6 | The soloist throughout is the estimable Norbert Kraft , and this label 's predilection for Canadian ensembles introduces us this time to the Winnipeg SO under Kazuhiro Koizumi . |
| 7 | But Jesus ' teaching shows us that repentance is God 's joy . |
| 8 | Much medical opinion also assures us that hypnosis is not essential . |
| 9 | But the main there 'ere is , we have n't actually changed our position we have actually stated clearly that we wanted to achieve something , we wanted to make sure that what was being provided in that community was the best best thing possible within the resources available and that things developed on This amendment takes us that way forward and we are at least being clear to our principles rather than just being negatively obstructive . |
| 10 | It clearly takes us some way , but there are still major difficulties . |
| 11 | ‘ Well , that 's where we 'll stay , children , until the place of your ancestors finds us some shelter ! ’ |
| 12 | Instead , the National Consumer Council 's previous work on consumer aid and advice convinces us that advice about money and credit problems — just like other types of advice — is best available as part of a general advice service , from non-specialist advice bureaux such as CABx . |
| 13 | On page 13 , however , STUART ‘ I 'm still taking Valium ’ MACONIE recounts the full horror of 1988 , the pivotal Reading that lead to the wonderment that awaits us this weekend . |
| 14 | At this point the poet ‘ takes off ’ and in a moment of vision tells us that Man 's ‘ greatness ’ is derived from early childhood experiences — provided that we have contributed something from ourselves to the bare impressions . |
| 15 | The fact that we are commanded to love even our enemies tells us that love is more of a decision than a feeling . |
| 16 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 17 | British Rail was ruling out King 's Cross at that stage , yet two or three years later BR tells us that King 's Cross is essential . |
| 18 | If a marble statue of the Virgin Mary suddenly waved its hand at us we should treat it as a miracle , because all our experience and knowledge tells us that marble does n't behave like that . |
| 19 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 20 | Rule 5 tells us that property passes when it is unconditionally appropriated by one party with the other 's assent . |
| 21 | The first law of thermodynamics tells us that energy may be converted from one form to another without any of it being destroyed . |
| 22 | The very fact that the gravitational attraction dominates tells us that matter on the large scale must be net electrically neutral to very high precision . |
| 23 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 24 | A sundial tells us that time was important even before the Swiss started making clocks and watches . |
| 25 | Hip-hop tells us that city life is impoverished , that real violence , as opposed to the symbolic stare-downs , is horrific . |
| 26 | The context , rather than phonological evidence , tells us that silver is given in the above example and that the new element therefore starts at needs . |
| 27 | Right , economic theory tells us that production will continue in , in the short run providing average variable costs are covered . |
| 28 | ‘ Re-order the household , gather our possessions and , when the Council of Scottish lords sends us safe conduct , travel north to the border . ’ |
| 29 | LINK correspondent sends us this extract of a poem written to mark the closure of Thornton Dale mill at the end of April . |
| 30 | As this approach dominates US political science , and as the US model was transplanted into Japan during the Occupation , it is , in some ways , not surprisingly the dominant perspective . |