Example sentences of "[prep] us [conj] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He may have realised earlier than most of us that the King was in the long run unfitted to be King . |
| 2 | Other than that , I would hope this meeting do agree on the recommendations of us that the road is accepted |
| 3 | He 's really dealing with that whole idea of the image of the self and the reflection in the water being much bigger and more interesting to all of us that the reality of who Jeff Koons is , ’ Rifkin says . |
| 4 | Anyway , there was hardly an atmosphere of trust between the two of us so the idea of me ‘ dealing ’ with him was not a comfortable one . |
| 5 | ‘ One of them is one of us but the rest are pretty good hell . |
| 6 | ‘ She 's badly run down anyway — like most of us since the war — and has very little resistance . ’ |
| 7 | But there was only two of us and the firm did not want to keep you on , realizing that you could be coming up for fifteen , they they finished you . |
| 8 | Closed copies of Hugo 's Russian grammar lay in front of us and the lecturer was asking questions . |
| 9 | We saw Mount Carmel ahead of us and the town of Haifa sleeping in the morning sun below us … |
| 10 | Nothing was disassembled or even disturbed , but in the end they had complete molecular images of us and the ship — which we would have to match perfectly upon departure . |
| 11 | Gary player and Henry Cotton were two strokes behind us and the boss and I decided we were among the right sort of company . |
| 12 | It 's something we must put behind us and the time to start is in winter conditions . |
| 13 | We heard it slam behind us and the key turn in the lock . |
| 14 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 15 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 16 | When the bed collapsed under us and the girl 's shrieks could be heard in the taproom below , the landlord came up again shouting abuse through the door , but I ignored him . |
| 17 | Enzo Ferrari may no longer be with us but the name and legend will live on . |
| 18 | They 'd followed that up by mounting a major surveillance job in London without clearing it with us or the Co-ordinator or anybody . |
| 19 | Jock instilled into us that the end product of our training was for us to become independent in every way , operating either alone or in very small groups . |
| 20 | Happiness is an emotional response that has become built into us and the horse for doing the right thing biologically . |
| 21 | I mean I think Mr Maxwell 's on the end of a very nasty hook at the moment with these houses and he 's wriggling off that and he 's offered these houses to us to avoid public embarrassment to his company and also to gain co-operation from us and the City Council in other areas . |
| 22 | It does not seem that we necessarily are always simply taken , let alone overtaken , by our desires , so that they act themselves out in us as the force of the wind acts on a leaf . |
| 23 | In The School of charity , Evelyn Underhill draws a parallel between the changes that take place when the Holy Spirit is working in us and the effect of yeast on dough . |
| 24 | The crowd gathered round us and the atmosphere was marvellous . |
| 25 | Mrs in her statement said that , quote , although my husband and I would like to be able to care for Anna Jane as long as possible , I accept that the last six years have taken their toll on us and the reality is that it 's unlikely that we will be able to provide the same level of care and same level of care and outside carers are required , unquote . |
| 26 | ‘ He 's more precious to us than the crown jewels . ’ |
| 27 | If you do so you must repay to us immediately the amount by which your withdrawal exceeded the amount available and if you fail to do this we may debit any other account or accounts you may have . |
| 28 | Order , will the right hon. Gentleman seek to have the report of the Select Committee on Energy on the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland available to us before the debate takes place ? |
| 29 | They want a spread of expenditure for the contract works So what we agreed with them is that we will forthwith start sending them client reports and I 've asked them if they will report back to us whether the client reports are in the form they want them . |
| 30 | A member of the Finance Houses Association put it to us that the development of consumer credit might be seen as having three phases : first , loans granted to buy tangible assets ; secondly , loans for intangibles such as holidays ; and finally , loans simply as loans . |