Example sentences of "[conj] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will quickly realise , however , that it is a fact of life that the Magpies and the Mackems , despite having had consistently poorer teams than us over the last decade , will always grab the headlines . |
| 2 | But I think , you know to make perhaps an obvious point , the comparison is made with West Germany , it 's not made with what er Japan or , or er America for instance are proposing to do , which is less than us at the present time . |
| 3 | They claim to be nearer than us to the European consensus , but they are as far from reality as they ever were . |
| 4 | ‘ Chelsea worked hard and they were better than us in the second half . ’ |
| 5 | Aye , she does n't bother but us in the next room , ah , bother us . |