Example sentences of "[prep] us [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nowadays many of us find that a bit strange , after all I do n't think any of us or very few of us here in this room have actually given our express consent to be British subjects . |
| 2 | ‘ If you only had twelve of us instead of thirty-two you 'd manage much better . ’ |
| 3 | You , you ca n't have a transport football team because you ca n't get enough of us together at one time cos they 're working you see , when people want to go to and from work but er |
| 4 | The war started for many of us long before that date . |
| 5 | It would be like having three people against us instead of two . ’ |
| 6 | I do very much hope that I can persuade those of you who have just come for communion , to join with us regularly at this service in the weeks that lie ahead . |
| 7 | And then if there 's any areas which you want to discuss with us then by all means we can . |
| 8 | Erm , Jane 's been with us now for eight months , and this is her , how many ? the sixth outfit she 's worked in . |
| 9 | I would suggest that a sexual problem might best be defined as an obstacle to the satisfaction of sexual need — that need which arises in us partly from innate instinct and urge , partly from the circumstances of any given time , and which is tempered by our personal upbringing and development , our moral outlook and the social norms to which we subscribe . |
| 10 | ‘ The board are currently selecting a short list of candidates who have been introduced to us independently by Pro Ned Limited . |
| 11 | Igor is on loan to us today for 37 minutes and , should he keep a clean sheet , I will have no hesitation in offering him a full contract and the captain 's job . |
| 12 | The feeling that the vista , for all its peacefulness , is disquieting , comes to us partly through two diverse types of metaphor : the " civilizing " metaphor which allows islands ( already compared to man-made buildings ) to have foundations ( 2 ) , the sea to be stable ( 3 ) , the sea and land to constitute a floor ( 3 ) , and the sky a dome ( 3 ) . |
| 13 | He 's repeated his concern to us regularly for eight years eight years . |
| 14 | Much of this information is gleaned initially from press statements and newsletters sent to us specifically for this purpose — we never thought that a ‘ Share Holding ’ in a particular society was a prerequisite to reporting their affairs . |
| 15 | At this point Antonio enters , and Shylock instantly switches to verse in an aside to us : This is a crucial moment , revealing to us alone at this point his real hatred , so strong that only verse can express it . |
| 16 | Another archaic art-form known to us only from one find is the gold-and-ivory cult-statue : not on the vast scale of Pheidias 's creations in the next century ( below , p. 102 ) , but fragments of several life-size figures have been found buried under the Sacred Way at Delphi , probably from a burned treasury . |
| 17 | It was low and cracked to begin with , then it rose up the scale , eerily , and shook out its top notes across the damp , half-lit glade until I really did think that my father had come not from the hospital but from some horribly , cold , empty region that lies in wait for us instead of all the heavens we have dreamed up to make things bearable . |
| 18 | Meaning that you 'll have no time for us here at all soon . ’ |
| 19 | I must thank the judges who did a good job for us apart from three who entered , showed up for a while and were then missing when their turn was due . |