Example sentences of "[conj] [noun pl] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We might conceive of the aside as occupying a zone midway between the play and the audience ; we continue to experience the play , but we do so via the new information or attitudes given us by the character or characters speaking the asides . |
| 2 | Whilst we recognise that conditions favoured us in the first quarter in that weather-related losses were comparatively light , the worldwide nature of the improvement , together with encouraging indications so far in the second quarter , lead us to believe that the worst is behind us and that trends will continue to improve . |
| 3 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 4 | Grooms and ostlers furnished us with horses for our journey . |
| 5 | The Quartet can be read as a ‘ simulacrum of simulation ’ in this sense : it reveals the simulated nature of the projections , speculations , and reconstructions fed us by the oral media and the role of story-telling in all so-called ‘ objective ’ compilations of factual information . |
| 6 | A steep climb through bracken and bilberries brought us to a wide rocky plateau . |
| 7 | Even when experts leave us with choices , we are more often than not reluctant to exercise such choice ; ‘ what do you recommend ? ’ , we ask . |
| 8 | Walking to the tiny mountain village of Axos , there was a friendly excitement in the air as locals waved us on our way to the open air taverna . |
| 9 | This brief discussion of the differential positioning of Black women as spectators returns us to the Channel 4 debate which I mentioned in my introduction . |