Example sentences of "[be] [verb] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An Omani doctor had been assigned to accompany us to London . |
| 2 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 3 | You know what whatever the situation is we we done it by then , but er we we do they they are guaranteeing to supply us with an office and telephone facility for up to three weeks . |
| 4 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 5 | And you 're going to put us on the top , Niki . |
| 6 | ‘ They 're going to miss us by at least a quarter mile . |
| 7 | Come on , you 'd better get to bed if you 're going to take us to England tomorrow . |
| 8 | there 's no , there 's no need to sort of rush at the , I think we wait and see what they 're going to offer us in er whenever it is that it comes up for renewal . |
| 9 | You 're trying to blind us with all your scientific talk , so that we do n't see what you 're getting at , and leave you alone till it 's too late … ’ ‘ … you 're a wicked , evil man , like that other woman said , flying in the face of Nature and God … ’ ‘ … and what about Einstein ? |
| 10 | ‘ They are attempting to drive us from the Highlands , but they can not . |
| 11 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 12 | It explains , I think rather vividly , why the Library overspent last year , because we have no idea in advance what the publishers are going to charge us for journals . |
| 13 | One lady , daughter of the proprietor of Jura said to the Captain — " Captain , do you mean to say you are going to turn us off the only nice place in the steamer and put sheep in it ? " |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Either we attack the enemy positions , or they are going to attack us in strength . |
| 16 | ‘ Because the twins are bound to wake us at the crack of dawn . ’ |
| 17 | I will tell Sarah you are coming to visit us on Wednesday afternoon . |
| 18 | We are ready to approach these people to ask them if they will fill in questionnaires or be interviewed to help us with our research . |
| 19 | Chris took the chair and I went through the list of things that needed to be done to get us off the ground : a bank account , an address and telephone number somewhere , an eye-catching logo . |
| 20 | Training times were Tuesday and Thursday evenings , when lectures and weapon training was carried out , and sometimes night schemes , but Sunday was the main day and often this would be used to acquaint us with our weapons . |
| 21 | This feedback will be used to guide us in the possible uses of the tape when we come to launching the 4th edition in early 1990 , which will be the published version of the tape . |
| 22 | These ‘ needs ’ constitute sources of control because they provide for both incentives and disincentives : their satisfaction can be used to lure us into conformity , and the threat of their denial can be used to divert us from criminality . |
| 23 | These ‘ needs ’ constitute sources of control because they provide for both incentives and disincentives : their satisfaction can be used to lure us into conformity , and the threat of their denial can be used to divert us from criminality . |
| 24 | Psychedelics , he argues , can be used to reconnect us with the earth itself , or rather , the Gaian mind . |
| 25 | It seems they are n't as strict as British ones and people here are worried the rules governing transport of livestock may be relaxed to put us in line with Europe . |
| 26 | The re-emergence of feminism , which began as a flash of vision , and continued with an examination of the evils and gross distortions of patriarchy , and led to a whole variety of campaigns on behalf of women , now needs to concentrate on the differences between us as women which have divided us under patriarchy and which can not be allowed to divide us as feminists . |
| 27 | Justifiable regrets , therefore , about the effect of the iconoclasts ' activities on the nation 's ecclesiastical heritage should not be allowed to blind us to the sincerity of their motives . |
| 28 | We had hoped that the Assistant Director Branches would be have joined us by now to help branches plan recruitment work . |
| 29 | And they are asked to provide us with a list of businesses which they are happy for us to approach . |
| 30 | Surely the language of religion is being used to direct us towards a new kind of philosophy , for which no language of its own exists . |