Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , right that gets us to the er performance analysis , and er graphs . |
| 2 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 3 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 4 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 5 | ‘ You remember : they wear pants and take us out to dinner if we 're very lucky and kick us in the teeth every chance they get . ’ |
| 6 | Erm we have the graduates who we 're training up and they 're not very good and drop us in the mire sometimes . |
| 7 | The shepherd grew pale and left us at once , and tried to rid his stomach of the dread stuff , and thereafter went home to his bed , expecting to die . |
| 8 | A more prosaic explanation would be that the derogation of women reflects a reality in which men regard us as inferior and define us above all in terms of our sexual attributes . |