Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [verb] us [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those are all steps in the right direction to make us more competitive ; and if we are more competitive , we can obviously sell more of our goods . |
| 2 | Now they 've got the bloody nerve to charge us half when we live there I do n't think she 'd dare say anything to me about it . |
| 3 | Then the social worker got us this flat and Keith moved in with us , and he stayed until just before Christmas , and we 've been on our own ever since . |
| 4 | The French Officer gets us all out of the ditch and the march continues for about four or five hours , then , during a rest in the wood , I fall asleep , my face among the leaves reminding me of my home in Scotland . |
| 5 | Indeed the Next Steps Report found that : ‘ People who had recently resigned from the Civil Service told us that frustration at the lack of genuine responsibility for achieving results was a significant factor in encouraging them to move to jobs outside . ’ |
| 6 | Otherwise it 's as if there 's a monster on the mountain , no , as if some dark being haunts us both . |
| 7 | The boy 's foster mother refused to be interviewed , but his real mother gave us this reaction . |
| 8 | Jewish law teaches us that sex is equally important between a married couple who wish to have children and between a couple where the woman may be infertile or menopausal . |
| 9 | ‘ It is because we need your brilliant white nose to help us each year to deliver presents . |
| 10 | For example , if we have raised our body temperature by exercise or effort then cooling ourselves by taking a cold shower , a swim , or a cold drink makes us more comfortable . |
| 11 | ‘ He made a brave , desperate , but unavailing effort to cheer us all up . |
| 12 | A useful mnemonic reminds us that movement with the heavens is passive ; movement against the sun and moon and the stars is aggressive and/or courageous ! |
| 13 | Questions of peace and war , global distributive justice , gender and racial inequality , and environmental degradation concern us all . |
| 14 | As I told you , the present war rules us both . |
| 15 | But within seconds Tom Watt was at my elbow , his large black umbrella overarching us both . |
| 16 | Within a minute or so he modified his cocksureness — — ‘ The good Lord gives us all certain gifts ’ — but not much . |
| 17 | He also insisted that ‘ every compromise with the existing system leaves us less capable of changing that system ’ . |
| 18 | Ah my poor mam had us all in that one bedroom upstairs you know . |
| 19 | Right , economic theory tells us that production will continue in , in the short run providing average variable costs are covered . |
| 20 | NO SMOKE International Smoke Signals ( Warrior 's Dance ) Following the 4 single ‘ Koro Koro ’ , this Paris-based outfit bring us more afro-house and spacey dub . |
| 21 | Not only is the system incapable of answering this type of question , even the General Theory gives us few clues apart from the somewhat cursory treatment of the two elasticities , e p and e y , in Keynes 's generalized quantity theory of money . |
| 22 | An American soldier gave us each a balloon and told us that the winner would be the one who could soonest burst the balloon by blowing it up beyond its stretching point . |
| 23 | ( Common sense reminds us that given the distribution of women in employment in Edinburgh , most of the mothers probably were or had been employed in some form of domestic service or in the clothing industry ; but in what proportions ? ) |
| 24 | In Brompton Regis in Somerset an interesting seventeenth-century document shows us that what are now farmsteads were formerly hamlets of several separate farmsteads with tenements and cottages . |
| 25 | New Scientist enlightened us all by saying ‘ animals infected with rabies virus show dramatic changes in their behaviour ’ . |
| 26 | The ride itself was reasonably uneventful , a marvellous tailwind pushing us all the way to Royston for the first seventy miles , then pushing us back to Royston for the next hundred miles . |
| 27 | Experiences , they argued , are identical with brain states ; but when someone is conscious of his experiences he is not conscious of his brain as such : it takes modern science to tell us that consciousness is a state of the brain . |
| 28 | That 's why it 's only black people who will put an end to racism ; our whole experience tells us that . |
| 29 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 30 | ‘ If that ole watchman gives us any bovver I 'll do 'im meself . |