Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
| 2 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 3 | We are interested and associated but not absorbed and should European statesmen address us in the words which were used of old — Shall we speak for thee to the king or captain of the host ? ' — we should reply , Nay sir , for we dwell among our own people' ’ . |
| 4 | It could be simply a difference of opinion where conflicting views bring us to an impasse . |
| 5 | The first thing that that litany reminds us of is that when it came to success , in the immortal words of Mae West ( put into her mouth by scriptwriter Vincent Lawrence ) , goodness had nothing to do with it . |
| 6 | Debt and dear money got us into it and , until we break debt 's grip , we shall never get out of it . |
| 7 | It 's a convenient unit , perhaps a useful way of thinking about it is in terms of the time that light takes about eight minutes to reach us from the sun . |
| 8 | This finding warns us against concluding that women get into heroin and sustain regular use solely because of male associations and partnerships . |
| 9 | Will this purchase help us towards our goal ? |
| 10 | This mourning cleanses us of our false expectations and superficialities , where we try to flatten everything into a manageable world in which we are in charge . |
| 11 | Dehydration , er can produce death within a matter of fe , er a few hours and and an understanding of the mechanism by which this dehydration leads us into one of the most effective forms of heat treatment er , ever produced . |
| 12 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 13 | But we were barely half-way before clouds crept down the high peaks to threaten us with rain or sleet . |
| 14 | But neither should we enable this sympathy to blind us to the greater truth that more persons suffer , many fatally , from corporate crime than ‘ conventional ’ crime . |
| 15 | This differentiation puts us in a place of desire and of choice . |
| 16 | This description introduces us to the tramp and gives us a rough picture of him . |
| 17 | This study provided us with an opportunity to identify some of the myths that predominantly unskilled workers hold about life in their work environment . |
| 18 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 19 | Our nervous Iraqi guards kept us inside the small bungalow that was ‘ home ’ for the 12 of us . |
| 20 | In summary , the sociological perspective outlined earlier in this chapter orientates us towards examining the social construction of ideas about child abuse . |
| 21 | A very light northerly wind wafted us round the moored yacht on which we had marooned the photographer . |
| 22 | We 've asked four top designers to join us for the day and show just how they would accessorize the little black dress that is a staple of this season 's wardrobe . |
| 23 | I want to take the initiative a step further , which is why I am now appealing for other British companies to join us in providing this help for our troops . |
| 24 | Whilst the 1985 Act obliges us to ‘ afford access to our lands for the purposes of knowledge and enjoyment ’ , it is perhaps true to say that most visitors , possibly as many as 95% , make use of the Gardens as an amenity , and that we may have failed to emphasise the ‘ knowledge ’ goal . |
| 25 | An attempt to answer this question takes us into the field of a phenomenological epistemology . |
| 26 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 27 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
| 28 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 29 | This interchange brought us to the foot of the bad step beneath Crib Goch summit . |
| 30 | Bourdieu 's work on the new middle classes ( what he calls the new petit bourgeoisie ) and Goldthorpe et al. 's study of the service class 's social mobility provide us with some clues . |