Example sentences of "us down " in BNC.
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| 1 | To calm us down , get us out of the house . |
| 2 | ‘ Partridge , who acts as guide , as boots , postilion , and boatman , at the Salutation Inn , might have brought us down an easier descent ; but as he had been out with a chaise all night , he was perhaps induced , from fatigue , to take us the nearest way . |
| 3 | ‘ It pays well and has brought valuable jobs , but if the demand for slate drops they will close us down without a second thought , ’ one said . |
| 4 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 5 | The falling of Burbank , taking us down the moral ladder , and the ‘ saggy bending of the knees ’ of Bleistein , taking us down the evolutionary ladder , lead to the declining ‘ smoky candle end of time ’ which prepares Burbank and the reader to ponder over ‘ Time 's ruins ’ , the etymology of ‘ ruins ’ being important . |
| 6 | In both of these cases our body clock is wrongly timed for our life-style and so it does not cool us down and make us feel more fatigued in the hours just before bedtime . |
| 7 | All these methods are calming us down and decreasing adrenalin release , and so accentuate the likelihood of falling asleep that is being promoted by our body clock . |
| 8 | For humans , as we have discussed in Chapter 1 , the body has been ‘ waking us up ’ since about 5 o'clock in the morning so that , by the time we normally wake , we are prepared for the rigours of a new day ; in the evening our body begins to ‘ tone us down ’ to prepare us for getting to sleep . |
| 9 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 10 | The second point is : Most of us down the years have tried to pray , and have found a pattern that suits us . |
| 11 | We do n't like failing ; it hurts our pride ; it brings us down to the dust . |
| 12 | And the strong-man holds his arm up to quiet us down . ’ |
| 13 | It was a load lifted from the heart , a load we had not even known weighed us down . |
| 14 | ‘ Let us down . |
| 15 | ‘ Come on , let us down . |
| 16 | In these areas , Labour and the Liberal Democrats are threatening us with more of what has brought us down . |
| 17 | He would have settled us down and kept us calm , and there is no doubt that we would have won , ’ said Mr Ferguson . |
| 18 | ‘ Yeltsin and Kravchuk are dragging us down to their level , and Admiral Chernavin just gives in , ’ he said , adding : ‘ I believe the military will seize power . ’ |
| 19 | The discipline within the team let us down when we were put under pressure — but perhaps it 's the kick in the pants we needed , ’ Jennings said . |
| 20 | First , how to persuade other member states not to insist on proposals which take us down the federal route and , second , how to avoid agreeing to wording which would be inconsistent with the wishes of the British parliament and electorate , while at the same time trying to reach an agreement . |
| 21 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 22 | The division could close us down . |
| 23 | They do n't pretend to offer us anything so they ca n't let us down . |
| 24 | Seb says we 're entered — he put us down . |
| 25 | In the Welsh hills , where the Severn still looks like a river and not the characterless drain it is in the middle and lower reaches , there was ice on the road , and this slowed us down considerably . |
| 26 | our lightning strikes us down again , |
| 27 | It calls for the qualities of a fighter , for only with those qualities can we win through the constant traps and barriers laid by the forces that would block our path and drag us down . |
| 28 | Faced with the need to chastise a dancer , she never gave way to anger nor showed her annoyance but her eyes would fill with tears and she would say , ‘ I never thought a Tiller would let us down like this . ’ |
| 29 | It pinned us down and made us feel that we could n't not go back without feeling terribly guilty . |
| 30 | During that time it has let us down just once , stranding the deputy editor Michael Harvey in Hammersmith with a broken clutch cable . |