Example sentences of "[noun] [be] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cars are killing us with pollution and accidents . |
| 2 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 3 | And so the relevance of that to what Andrea was telling us about is what ? |
| 4 | First er but I 've been tol I 'm sorry I 'm I have n't realized Scott was joining us on the line . |
| 5 | Oh , Ken was asking us about that . |
| 6 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 7 | ‘ Mr Foggerty 's taking us to the baths after school , he said . ’ |
| 8 | In the Concerto especially , both soloist and conductor take the work entirely seriously , and make a substantial case for it as one of the leading Concertos of its time — the days are leaving us at least when Gershwin 's ‘ serious ’ works ( those are n't my scare quotes ) were treated like the fortuitous good fortune of the upstart seven-year-old playing in big brother 's room , as if he composed them by accident . |
| 9 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 10 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 11 | The form of prayer is unimportant ; whatever the form its aim is to bring us into communion with the divine . |
| 12 | erm We 've got to recognise the professional advice that Matthew is giving us in this report , that he , he needs professional trained staff , and it grieves me that really we can only offer a technician when he is asking for something more . |
| 13 | But er , I think the advice that erm , Mr is giving us about who we talk to and when to talk to them , how we get to get together and present a united face to government is a , is a good suggestion , and I 'd like to propose that er , we accept that . |
| 14 | His desire is to keep us inside our barracks ( or , more appositely , behind the battlements of our homes ) . |
| 15 | Bryan 's aim was to wean us off complete reliance on precise diagnostic features , and to get us to concentrate on the ‘ Personality ’ of each species ; on the way it holds itself , feeds , moves , calls ; its general behaviour and first glance appearance — ‘ jizz ’ for short . |
| 16 | No er the most annoying thing about last night was when , when Martin was actually reviewing erm some of the topics that we had n't got right erm and Martin was prompting us with questions and we answered them ! |
| 17 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 18 | This is somewhat unfortunate because by the fourteenth of January we are supposed to agree a purchase plan with the health authority , and it 's a little difficult to do that in the absence of the knowledge of what conditions are attaching us to where and how you can spend the money . |
| 19 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 20 | ‘ Captain Moreau was telling us about her . |
| 21 | In English , Miss J. was telling us about the Blessed Damozel . |
| 22 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 23 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 24 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 25 | " Mr. Ingard is expecting us at nine-thirty in the morning , " he said as we got up to go . |
| 26 | Within two weeks we were encouraging our readers to lobby their MPs concerning the restrictive Night Assemblies Bill , Robert Tripp was regaling us with tales of groupies and interviews had taken on a new air of contention , seriousness and madness . |
| 27 | Derek was telling us about some roustabout 's wife who will flit back in with her mother every fortnight . |
| 28 | Well that policem that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di |
| 29 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 30 | Mr. Andrew Welsh ( Angus , East ) : The Government are taking us into unknown waters with the changes in the legislation . |