Example sentences of "[be] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 2 | Why is it that some general secretaries of certain unions are pushing us down the path of severing our links ? |
| 3 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 4 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 5 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 6 | He says : ‘ There are great forces at work , and they 've already embraced us in a world market , they 're sweeping us towards a European destiny . |
| 7 | Because of your health , pet , they 're putting us on the priority list , say we did n't ought to be below-ground , nor too high . |
| 8 | The Government are leading us to a shambles . |
| 9 | As the Factory supremo Tony Wilson pointed out at the time , ‘ New Order are leading us into an age of passionate computer music ’ . |
| 10 | They are leading us in the direction of a central truth about life on Earth , the truth that I alluded to in my opening paragraph about willow seeds . |
| 11 | All this trouble they are giving us despite the fact that I have a UK passport . |
| 12 | She 's been recording us for an hour |
| 13 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 14 | Actually , as R. A. Fisher , one of the founding fathers of what is now called neo-Darwinism , has pointed out , this fact of particulate inheritance has always been staring us in the face , every time we think about sex . |
| 15 | He said : ‘ They seemed to be using us as a last resort . |
| 16 | The policy seems to be to segregate us from the Chinese as regards eating , sleeping travel , etc. as much as possible , but mainly for our own comfort , so that we can enjoy a higher standard of life than the Chinese themselves could expect . |
| 17 | Our client should be presenting us with a sheaf of paper with pink ribbon round it , saying , we would like a tender on that , fixed fee , by two weeks on Tuesday , or whatever . |
| 18 | They 'll be expecting us in the house . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ … and this is Folly , who will be joining us for the first time this weekend . |
| 20 | ‘ I gather you 're going to be joining us for the world cruise ? ’ |
| 21 | The only other er notice I 've got for you is that tomorrow I forgot to put it on the notices tomorrow we 've got a lot of visitors in school there 's about er thirty five of them coming over who are likely to be joining us in the lower sixth next September er lessons with the lower sixth to find out what erm what lessons are like you know okay . |
| 22 | ‘ If Britain were seen as the cause of Maastricht 's failure , relegation to the second division of influence would be staring us in the face , ’ he warned . |
| 23 | We have done some work with your offices on that , and whilst on most of your activities are n't happy with er the scale of such that it does cause me a problem , there is one particular area that we are in discussion with the Chief Executive , and your offices relating to doing work for other bodies to and the contract vehicle hire service , and er , that 's something which we will and no doubt will be brought us in the very near future . |
| 24 | Everyone will be avoiding us like the plague if we take this there with us ! |
| 25 | , our long serving secretary will be leaving us at the end of May . |
| 26 | ‘ Could Hitler be lulling us into a false sense of security ? ’ |
| 27 | They 'll be teasing us in the club mother wo n't they ? |
| 28 | To no avail : my resolution was never called for debate and another , that if the SNP were to approach us with a view to talks ( an unlikely event after the Pollok by-election ) we would not close the door , was passed by a narrow majority . |
| 29 | It was frightening to walk through the Barkhor , where Chinese soldiers with machineguns were watching us from the roofs . |
| 30 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |