Example sentences of "[prep] us [adj] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It turned out that IUE detected ultraviolet light from the edge of the ring that is tilted towards us 80 days after Supernova 1987A erupted . |
| 2 | P.S. Would you please , please , put Jennifer Capriati in your Sweetspot in the next issue for all of us Capriati fans out her . |
| 3 | He fussed for a while over a large teapot , pouring both of us outsize cups of tea . |
| 4 | Thank you again for your efforts keeping all of us far-flung graduates in touch and thanks too for considering my seconding of Anne 's proposal . |
| 5 | Aaaaah , woe is me ( and all the rest of us stranded miles from Elland Road ) . |
| 6 | The author of what I later discovered to be a scholarly , if tendentious , account of us foreign policy since Korea , he expressed a fastidious regret for the instruments America had to work through but justified the excesses of the client governments by reference to the worse alternative of Marxist dictatorship . |
| 7 | After all , learning suggests to most of us some degree of understanding , some conscious comprehension of the problem to be solved . |
| 8 | He was an intelligent man but he had not travelled far , and we spent hours sitting on the verandah talking about our different cultures — he was fascinated by the idea of social security , the nuclear family , double-decker buses and cricket — while above us dark silhouettes of geckoes scurried across the strip lights . |
| 9 | Of the final quarter , I 'd put about 10 per cent into a straight emerging markets fund … and the rest into US smaller companies through the Hypo Foreign & Colonial fund . |
| 10 | What he 's talking about and this is the same erm same councillor who was talking about living harmoniously side by side those that have are are buying them , those that are renting them but what he 's actually saying is well I 'm actually very , very sorry but if you have n't a job , if you have n't an income or you 're income is so low , just go over there and stay away from us decent chaps with lots of cash . |
| 11 | But there is in us another level of being which lies deeper than knowing or acting , and it is at that further depth that the genuine religious impulse arises and lives . |
| 12 | When Giorgio had descended on us that day in the train he had asked her to advance him the money to build the new car , and when she had turned him down he was furious . |
| 13 | We will then do a deal with the employer to release the trainee back to us one day per week for training . |
| 14 | But this poem seemed to us incontrovertible proof of our poetic twinship . |
| 15 | Now it seemed to us that freedom from disease was more likely related to the weak growth of the trees in the forest . |
| 16 | [ I ] t appears to us that unity of interest imports the existence of joint rights and obligations . |
| 17 | Mr. Wadsworth submits to us that contempt of court is an offence of a criminal character , albeit it is a civil proceeding . |
| 18 | The sail was only too short , and after rounding Toward Point , we steamed slowly into Rothesay Bay , whose shipping and surroundings brought to us manifold reminders of city life : it was a strong contrast to the quiet of the Arran hills towering heavenward above the encircling wreaths of mist . |
| 19 | said to us last night about the next girl to come in after she 's arrived to read the register . ’ |
| 20 | I think for example of the sensitivity of some of the small market towns , the point for example that was made to us last week about the sensitivity one settlement with which I 've come increasingly familiar over the last fortnight and that is town centre . |
| 21 | Erm , although I think we will say that that would be dangerous thing to do and that we should continue to work upon the er the assumption that there erm er overall as a n , a nine percent increase , but , that seems highly unlikely that will succeed , erm What I 've then done is take account of the various staffing changes that there have been during the year , both short term and long term , erm , and you 'll see that produces a figure actually available to us this year of twenty seven thousand five hundred and eighty eight investigative hours , erm which is slightly less than we had last year , er but erm almost not significantly so , erm and it seemed to me therefore that if we were n't trying to reduce times , er , if we were saying that we would turn in times at the end of this year which were the same as the term times we turned in at the end of last year we could probably achieve that without any further recruitment . |
| 22 | It 's not coming completely new to us this type of operation . |
| 23 | I do n't believe in the God the parson used to present to us three times on a Sunday . ’ |
| 24 | It may be that when we express our opinions , we only have available to us ready-made sets of ideas , ‘ discourses ’ , other people 's words which we choose from , string together in different ways and think ( mistakenly ) to be our own ; these include ‘ expert ’ ideas and the colloquial , common-sense versions of them absorbed by ordinary people in one way or another . |
| 25 | Looking back to nineteen thirty five brings back memories to us older generation of the splendid summers when the herring fishing was booming in Stronsay . |
| 26 | Millions of words are fired at us each day by politicians and journalists expressing their point of view , and by the advertising and public relations industries trying to sell us things . |
| 27 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 28 | Laid out plain as day for us white folks by the angry artistic voices of our ghettos . |
| 29 | Crilly also netted his single goal for us this season in the infamous Christmas Day rout at Brentford ( 2–8 ) , equalising The Bees ' early opener with a reply from the penalty spot . |
| 30 | Although the first fruits of this decision took place in l982 , the writing had been on the wall , and read by us many years before that , and it took a period of some years to find a way of moving out of polythene , which was not only ICI 's own proud invention , but an area where we had been acknowledged world leaders for many years . |