Example sentences of "[verb] be [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ONE of the most sensational life-forms on this planet , Sigourney Weaver , has been telling us about Alien 3 which opens here next week . |
| 2 | A foreigner who is stunningly attractive will readily upset the apple-cart of our preconceptions , as will a friend whom we discover has been slandering us behind our back . |
| 3 | This week , Zoe Muir has been updating us on the progress of our five Lunchtime dieters who have each been trying a different method of losing weight . |
| 4 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 5 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 6 | All you have to do is tell us about the worst computer nightmare you 've ever had . |
| 7 | If the ship was locked on to us , it must have been following us from Vadinamia . |
| 8 | We have excellent food — almost twice as much as we can eat is offered us at every meal — and we have well heated rooms , which is indeed a blessing , when you compare the virtual absence of heating at the Peking Languages Institute where we work . |
| 9 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 10 | Was he the enemy who had been following us since the very beginning in London ? |
| 11 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 12 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 13 | ‘ And what 's all this codswallop you 've been feeding us about Old Red 's being foul to nurses ? |
| 14 | And he was saying he said oh you 've been good you 've been feeding us with cups of teas . |
| 15 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 16 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 17 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 18 | You know , you 're worried about us threatening you on your borders , you 've been threatening us on our borders you get rid of yours we 'll get rid of ours , fair ? |
| 19 | The French have been accusing us of lack of co-operation lately — military co-operation , that is . |
| 20 | ‘ Although the name is new , many of the ideas forming general SVQs have been exercising us for years . |
| 21 | What is even worse is that desktop publishing delivers to the mass market at a ridiculously low price the technology that traditional electronic publishing system suppliers have been promising us for years — the ability to mix text and graphics freely on a page . |
| 22 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 24 | She 's been recording us for an hour |
| 25 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 26 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |