Example sentences of "[be] [verb] us in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ It 's been staring us in the face all this time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | They 'll be expecting us in the house . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They 'll be teasing us in the club mother wo n't they ? |
| 10 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 11 | It 's like it 's there and it 's staring us in the face but I just ca n't … ca n't access it . ’ |
| 12 | It is staring us in the face . |
| 13 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 14 | ‘ The need to intern is staring us in the face , ’ he said . |
| 15 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 16 | Fortunately was interested and immediately delved into his record collection and started to play some old rock 'n' roll LP 's to get us in the mood . |