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 . |