Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three of us went in the front , the other three through the back . |
| 2 | Our gesture was not really a religious one , for neither of us believed in the Roman Catholic faith and detested its oppressive hold on the Spanish people , particularly the poor . |
| 3 | A bunch of us eat in the dining room . |
| 4 | I asked what had happened — ‘ Had their been a shuffle ? — or had one of us died in the night ? ’ |
| 5 | The second aspect is more difficult for those of us engaged in the communicative enterprise . |
| 6 | Cos there 's too many of us to go in the little room . |
| 7 | With regard to collections in Scotland and the housing of those collections , may I point out that many of us living in the west of Scotland are opposed to the building of a national art gallery in Edinburgh ? |
| 8 | Stories on video tap the interest most of us have in the lives and predicaments of other human beings and can be used to spark off discussion in the classroom . |
| 9 | A few took local accommodation but most of us camped in the castle 's magnificent park . |
| 10 | Now he was down in Somerset : dairy , herding of course , Friesians , and milking about 20 cows , three of us milked in the morning and two in the afternoon , a long cow shed , of course my heart came in my mouth then , under the knees of all the cows . |
| 11 | By the end of 1945 , those of us left in the Forces were all , I think , getting a bit tired of the sameness and predictability of the food which was dished out to us . |
| 12 | There were now just the two of us left in the dining room . |
| 13 | All of us rooted in the soil ? |
| 14 | The rest of us crouched in the bushes so 's we would n't get caught in the headlamps . |
| 15 | Scarcely a day passes without us reading in the newspapers or seeing on television assaults , batteries , violent acts of all kinds . |
| 16 | Why did he listen to us talking in the kitchen ? |
| 17 | The cavalcade stopped and orders were issued for us to rest in the fields around the church whilst Queen Margaret and her principal attendants went inside . |
| 18 | ‘ I allowed sixty seconds for us to get in the cart from the train and if we do n't leave now we 'll be late . ’ |
| 19 | ABC offers the unique opportunity for us to expand in the general trade market and simultaneously take advantage of its very successful relationship with speciality booksellers . ’ |
| 20 | So we find that there 's an intriguing chemistry going on in space that it would be very difficult for us to reproduce in the laboratory . |
| 21 | Microsoft Corp chairman Bill Gates said in a televised interview with CNBC-TV that he knows of no effort by the US Federal Trade Commission to force a restructuring of Microsoft , despite its ongoing probe : ‘ I certainly have n't heard any suggestion that they 're even considering something that would change the structure of our company , ’ Gates said ; he also warned on the Business Insiders programme that Microsoft Corp will not be as profitable in the long-term as it has in recent years — ‘ The kind of profit margin we 've had in the past will be very unlikely for us to achieve in the future ; we 've said after tax margins probably wo n't stay over 20% in the mid to long-term , and they could go quite a bit lower than that in the short-term , ’ the company 's chief executive declared . |