Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public invisibility and the self-policing that are so central to lesbian and gay oppression place us in quite a different position , socially and economically , from each of these other groups . |
| 2 | Our subject points towards wider horizons , offering a further dimension of perception and perspective , giving us at least the illusion that we transcend the confines of time . |
| 3 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 4 | In 1986 Neil Kinnock described the ERM as a ‘ strait-jacket ’ which ‘ would leave us with either a very unstable currency or very unstable interest rates ’ . |
| 5 | In the course of her book , she gives us by far the most detailed and interesting portrait of Mary ever written , free from the excesses of adulation or attack which characterize so much of the writing about her . |
| 6 | It was a charge that was to dog us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections , and which did us more damage than any other health issue . |
| 7 | Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness . |
| 8 | Second , it leaves us with absolutely no idea of how to get from patriarchal capitalist dystopia to socialist-feminist utopia . |
| 9 | Which brings us to perhaps the most phenomenal yearly stats I have ever had the pleasure of analysing . |