Example sentences of "us at " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 2 | They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags ! |
| 3 | Coupled with desperately needed new construction , such as the cross-rail proposals , these existing routes could be made to really work for us at a fraction of the cost of new road-building , and with minimal land encroachment , pollution or disturbance to the environment . |
| 4 | ‘ Ron is the right man for us at the moment , ’ Caisley said . |
| 5 | If you have a query about anything concerning the outdoor world why not write to us at Outdoor Action ? |
| 6 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 7 | sets us at a painterly remove from decorously observed suffering and does little to prepare us for the replacement of the distant tangled hair of Ariadne by immediate presence of the directly primitive |
| 8 | As Ania Loomba puts it , in relation to colonialist studies , ‘ the neglect of histories surrounding native insubordination either devalues or romanticises the latter , or worse , tends to read colonised subjects through linguistic or psychoanalytic theories which , for some of us at least , remain suspiciously and problematically shot through with ethnocentric assumptions whose transfer to all subalterns is unacceptable ’ ( ‘ Overworlding ’ , cited from manuscript ) . |
| 9 | ‘ Does he ask about us at all ? ’ |
| 10 | Morning found us at Gullfoss hastily trying to organize sleeping and eating . |
| 11 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 12 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |
| 13 | With all the problems facing us at home , what have the rainforests got to do with us ? |
| 14 | ‘ It is no surprise that JHFenner has decided to sell their shares to us at our generous increased offer price , ’ Dr Paul said . |
| 15 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
| 16 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 17 | All our ideas are derived from experience , and he argues , against Descartes , that there are no innate ideas which are with us at birth . |
| 18 | Something more of the requisite independence could be achieved by Berkeley 's doctrine that ideas which are not subject to our own will are produced in us by God : the independence of a real thing , its having some continuity despite interrupted perception of it , could be explained in terms of a continued readiness on God 's part to excite the requisite ideas in us at suitable moments . |
| 19 | Join us at Austin Reed in Regent Street , London W1 , for our very first readers party on Wednesday April 17 , between 6pm-8pm |
| 20 | Even though we may say , ‘ Make yourself at home ’ , we might be a little taken aback if they took us at our word and kicked off their shoes , lounged around on the settee , helped themselves to our coffee , tea , larder and even our wine ! |
| 21 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 22 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 23 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 24 | As the years have passed , he 's started waiting for us at the door on visitors ' days . |
| 25 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 26 | Sir , May I express through your columns Sends a Cow 's gratitude to the many people in our beleaguered industry who generously supported us at the Royal Show this year . |
| 27 | ‘ Come for us at home , ’ was what George had said , ‘ we 're setting off from there . |
| 28 | A letter to a Front soldier from a citizen of Görlitz in late June or early July 1940 undoubtedly spoke for many in stating that , following the ‘ unimaginably great ’ events which had been seen each week in the newsreels , ‘ we will never be able to thank the Führer and brave army enough for sparing us at home the horrors of war ’ , and that an ‘ immensely great ’ future awaited Germany ‘ in the construction of Europe after the final victory ’ . |
| 29 | And something that happens to us at least five days in every month — that affects , amongst other things , our sexual feelings , and our body size and shape — why should that be unimportant ? |
| 30 | As he began to speak a young boy ran straight through a plate glass window behind us at the back of the church . |