Example sentences of "[verb] us in [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You do n't believe for a minute that this government will stand by while the two biggest general unions get together , no way , they 'll attack us in any way they can and I warn ya they have n't run out of ideas yet . |
| 2 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | They never put us in foster care . |
| 5 | and really always has been , erm , the idea of a centre is , is simply because you consider how much it costs to have a point wired when the house is , is built , er several people nowadays is ha well they buy an old house , they erm , say well we 'll take out the centre light and put us in some wall lights instead you see . |
| 6 | I 'll bring us in some coffee . ’ |
| 7 | I know there are terrible things out there , but that is n't an excuse for giving up on that which sustains us in this life . |
| 8 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 9 | The outcome of the struggle between environment and development interests observed during much of the 1980s , still to be seen today , confirms us in this conclusion . |
| 10 | Journalists who call to the farm to interview me do see us in that setting and describe it as they will but those really are only momentary glimpses into what must remain , fundamentally , my private life . |
| 11 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 12 | They 'll keep us in good standing with the king still . |
| 13 | The Clio reaches us in perfect condition , excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims . |
| 14 | In fact , the healthy eating rules that apply to everyone , stand us in good stead for preventing high blood pressure and heart disease . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , we can look back on the year with pride and feel confident that our achievements stand us in good stead for 1992 . |
| 16 | We will also provide pastoral support to help those already in mission to function more effectively and we hope to do some more pastoral training to help us in this area of work . |
| 17 | Trees return once more to help us in this endeavour . |
| 18 | She wrote a letter to her , asking her to help us in any way she could . |
| 19 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 20 | And in this sense it must be said that the Resistance experience , by making us believe that politics is a relationship between man and man or between consciousnesses , fostered our illusions of 1939 and masked the truth of the incredible power of history which the Occupation taught us in another connection . |
| 21 | Better performance in 1993 must be everybody 's objective and despite the wailing and gnashing of teeth that surrounds us there has been plenty happening in our Division in 1992 to put us in good shape for the challenge of 1993 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | The theme of this EP , if the sleeve is owt to go by , is that aliens are going to put us in big test tubes full of pink bubbles . |
| 24 | The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place . |
| 25 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 26 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 27 | Their memory and remembrance — rediscovered and kept alive in historical reconstruction and actualized in ritual celebration — encourage us in historical solidarity with them to commit ourselves to the continuing struggle against patriarchy in society and church . |
| 28 | And I think it was , we were willing to go back to work and carry on discussions , albeit without earning any bonus because we were working to rule at the time , but it was what happened in er the quarry that really started the strike , when he laid the workforce off because they were helping us , or joining us in sympathetic action , you know there was a lockout up there , so I think that speeded up things considerably . |
| 29 | We intend to place the money in our building fund and it is also a faith-building experience for us to see God blessing us in this way . |
| 30 | This is when we started forming consumer groups and demanding watchdogs to protect us in this shopping jungle . |