Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] [vb -s] us [det] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | Otherwise it 's as if there 's a monster on the mountain , no , as if some dark being haunts us both . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | 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 ! |
6 | As I told you , the present war rules us both . |
7 | Within a minute or so he modified his cocksureness — — ‘ The good Lord gives us all certain gifts ’ — but not much . |
8 | He also insisted that ‘ every compromise with the existing system leaves us less capable of changing that system ’ . |
9 | Right , economic theory tells us that production will continue in , in the short run providing average variable costs are covered . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | ( 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 ? ) |
12 | 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 . |
13 | That 's why it 's only black people who will put an end to racism ; our whole experience tells us that . |
14 | ‘ If that ole watchman gives us any bovver I 'll do 'im meself . |