Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 2 | Conflict theorists emphasise that most areas of our lives involve us in institutionalised power relationships , and most of us are subordinate most of the time . |
| 3 | The Clio reaches us in perfect condition , excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims . |
| 4 | One delegate commented : ‘ It could be used as a trick to keep us in residential care . ’ |
| 5 | Nearly all of these are modern chemicals we have thoughtlessly introduced into our cats ' environment to help us in various ways . |
| 6 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 7 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 8 | To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top . |
| 9 | ‘ We are urging licensees to join us in encouraging sensible drinking because it in their own interests . ’ |
| 10 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 11 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 12 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 13 | Is the purpose of a single European currency and the central bank to assist us in improving living standards by providing a level playing field or are they steps towards some kind of federal Europe ? |
| 14 | But some of the astonishment was that we had Clark here resident in Edinburgh to show us in magnificent playing , the possibilities of this music . |
| 15 | The image is invasive , yet we are compelled to look , for the privilege gaze Mann offers us in hard to deny . |
| 16 | It is quite usual to find large joints of roast beef and pork for slicing on the delicatessen counter , but two of the more interesting meats to reach us in recent years have been smoked turkey and pastrami . |
| 17 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |