Example sentences of "us [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Y oh yes it gave us advantage to the extent that we 'd someone b behind us to fight for any , any er grievances that we had .
2 But the knotted tensions between people and groups of people give us plenty to think about .
3 That will give us plenty to work on in the next decade , and that is probably as far as we should look for the time being .
4 We do n't like 16-bit owners making fun of us 8-bit owners , so why should we make fun of the Spectrum ?
5 Also , tell all those 16-bit owners to stop making fun of all us 8-bit owners or Miss W will give them 20,000 lashes ( hope you do n't mind ) .
6 BELVILLE : Mrs. Jewkes , bring us champagne .
7 What , how does he give us faith ?
8 And so when he gives us faith , he gives of himself .
9 With more and more Britons buying property in France , many French banks have come to the UK , eager to lend us funding in French francs .
10 Her life 's motto was Goethe 's ‘ Law alone can give us freedom . ’
11 The car gives us freedom ; the car clogs up roads .
12 Nigel could n't leave his digging but wished us luck and we began to make our plans : go up on the Settle-Carlisle line for a day or two , split up to get round all the caravans quicker , then meet at dinner and tea to compare notes .
13 Besides , our first patient has brought us luck .
14 Dave , waltzing us along the undulating peat based roads of Mull , said he was giving us wave action practice before embarkation at Ulva Ferry .
15 ‘ What 's this about your school 's packed in their challenge to us tetrathlon chaps , Gloria my darling ?
16 Metaphysics always gives us responsibility .
17 he never made any thing else in his image , but he made you to be created in his image and with that there 's that status , were not just a more intelligent animal , were not just something else that God made even , but were that , that peak of his creative genius , the peak of it , the very pinnacle of it , not because of what we are , but because of the image , the pattern that he was using , his own self , created us in his image , so that gave us status but it gives us responsibility .
18 Yeah well we , if we go it 's gon na take us hour to get bloody down there and back on the bus in n it ?
19 Now , I hope I 've got these facts right and I 'm sure that not , that Eileen may correct me that er we have er forty hundred pounds in the budget , budget for this er the erm South Wales congregation has , has kindly erm given us grant of a thousand pounds and I understand from the secretary of con , Cardiff congregation , and he 's also offered a thousand pounds I do n't know whether we 've got that yet ?
20 I still do not know how this worked , but am prepared to swear that none of us present was responsible .
21 Judy our new Director will lead her team , of Simon , Richard and To and er Tony and I think it seems particularly er , appropriate and important that Judy at her first appearance here as Director , although many of us present , I know , would remember her wearing other hats , should have this opportunity of speaking the Councillor members and giving us some idea of how the Management Team see the future before us in the years to come .
22 The issue surfaced again at Cabinet on 30 September when I warned colleagues that the leaking of the CPRS report had caused us damage .
23 You can keep them all as long as you leave us Flupper .
24 Erm I do n't think I have been down to that I think I 've sh erm wired the whole damn out of my mind because er it 's a long time since I heard such garbage in this chamber , it 's fortunate for us Chairman that Mr is n't a member of the Environment Committee because if that 's the kind of contribution that he 's prepared to make on these occasions we would could well do without it .
25 Not only will this give us contract details at the push of a button but also allow us to manage service runs more effectively and so keep costs down .
26 They used to give us gum and sweets everything and the , they sometimes , the military police they used to come down town and they 'd be after deserters from Lichfield and
27 Please send us info on Clwyd rock
28 There is amongst us inequality of talent , intelligence and virtue ; of capacity to enjoy freedom and create wealth ; and of the ability to rule , lead , organize and contribute to an ordered , harmonious and decent society .
29 ‘ You 'll no doubt find us primitive compared with what you 're used to . ’
30 We were playing with so much arrogance that it needed something like that to make us play .
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