Example sentences of "[noun] [adv] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As the Post Office Authorities only favour us with two mails weekly at this time of the year , your impression of Saturday first will not reach this remote whisky-making comer of Her Majestie 's dominions until the morning will have dawned when Shepherds first received the tidings . |
| 2 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 3 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 4 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 5 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 6 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 7 | The final conclusion I come to therefore is that , though the theories of plate tectonics now provide us with a modus operandi , they still seem to me to be a periodic phenomenon . |
| 8 | She fumbled in her pocket for the key then let us in the side door . |
| 9 | The place of work also provides us with a base for social interaction . |
| 10 | High winds now prevented us from visiting the Monach Isles , reputedly site of the world 's second largest seal colony . |
| 11 | Gy François then led us to the village 's chimpanzee sanctuary , a small grass-covered shelter where rice is regularly laid on a few very old-looking chimpanzee skulls . |
| 12 | The coach then took us into the Wachau Valley for lunch at another 5-star hotel and then after a short walk through the medieval village and Durnstein Castle , we went on to the ‘ UND ’ Monastery at Krems for a wine tasting . |
| 13 | Dr Woodman cleverly got us into them even earlier . |
| 14 | And , although we are in Division Four , other clubs still see us as a team they really want to beat . ’ |
| 15 | The Germans hardly shelled us at all . |
| 16 | Mr Harvey always take us to the Kentucky Derby and we stay in Washington for the Preakness meeting , then go on to some friends of the Harveys in New York . |
| 17 | Roger usually introduced us to his girl-friends across the breakfast table , so this one had to be important and in the two weeks before her arrival I asked Rog to teach me a formal French greeting . |
| 18 | An absolute conception of poverty thus alerts us to the fact that health — for some or all of the family — will be bartered in the struggle to meet basic needs . |
| 19 | She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window . |
| 20 | in another review of the criminal statistics , F. H. McClintock and N. H. Avison also direct us towards the relative stability in recorded crime levels between 1900 and 1914 which , they suggest , ‘ might be described as the stable but carefree Edwardian era ’ . |
| 21 | I have made this broad but brief review of the development of provision for special needs partly to remind us of how much improvement has been achieved and also as a background to the rest of the paper . |
| 22 | The husband now joined us in the street and the fracas escalated . |
| 23 | Psychologists have legitimised this in the most peculiar ways : Sigmund Freud claimed that people who are not selfish enough are probably pathological , and therapists now urge us to ‘ actualise ourselves ’ in between bouts of learning how to assert ourselves . |
| 24 | The Community even tells us through which fields we are to put our roads . |
| 25 | A phase of global warming which began about 17,000 years ago took us from a glacial world , up to 5C colder on average than the present one , into the equable post-glacial world of the last 10,000 years . |
| 26 | Oh God , Grant please ask us on your boat . |
| 27 | Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker , impress us with the illusion of design and planning . |
| 28 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 29 | Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ? |
| 30 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |