Example sentences of "[pers pn] be [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm getting us off this planet as fast as I can . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Master Shallot , ’ she called in her beautiful French voice , ‘ my husband says you are to join us in France . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ No , you are helping us with our enquiries . ’ |
| 4 | But may I point out to you , Dr. Briant , that I for one — and I think it likely that the audience feels much as I do — find the material you are giving us in so admirably concise and ordered a manner is not as intelligible as it might be , since we are ordinary simple souls ? |
| 5 | So I 'm saying to Graham , come on , we 're helping you , you are helping us obviously , I 'm not gon na deny the fact you 're helping us with our research . |
| 6 | If you 're comparing us with primary and secondary schools we have to remember that the erm the great erm age bulge pass has passed through the primary schools and is passing through the secondary schools and is still to reach higher education . |
| 7 | ‘ I have n't the faintest idea what you 're thanking us for . ’ |
| 8 | Tony , you 're joining us from Freeland , and your views . |
| 9 | ‘ What will she be testing us on this afternoon ? ’ a small girl asked . |
| 10 | Will you be joining us for lunch ? |
| 11 | Not this dream you were telling us about , was it ? |
| 12 | She 's meeting us for lunch , by the way . ’ |
| 13 | Oh , Jesus , she 's driving us up the wall . |
| 14 | When Gem was up here the other day she was telling us about one of them teachers who plays computer games instead of giving lessons |
| 15 | Yeah , she was telling us about it that girl , in wr in writing , what it , she was telling us it , about it being formed at a different venue , but it 's actually the Mary Wallis Theatre . |
| 16 | Dad 's was a carver and Mum 's had shortened legs because , being only 4 feet 10 inches tall , the lower chair was a great help when she was nursing us as babies . |
| 17 | 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 |
| 18 | All this trouble they are giving us despite the fact that I have a UK passport . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | It 's a couple of hours ’ drive from Berlin , and they 're expecting us in the morning . |
| 21 | They 're taking us for granted ! |
| 22 | They 're persecuting us for our beliefs . ’ |
| 23 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 24 | ‘ I do n't understand why they 're keeping us in here , ’ he grumbled . |
| 25 | We 've , the protest succeeded in focusing a spotlight on this northern test site where the Soviets hope to continue nuclear testing after their own people stopped them in Khazakstan They 're rattled and they 're angry with us , and now they 're punishing us by preventing us from having direct communication with our friends and finding out that they 're safe and well . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | They 've stopped their work just now and they 're joining us for our morning worship along with some children from James Gillespie 's High School Choir . |
| 29 | In general , the answers from different types of respondent did not differ all that widely and the variations that emerged seemed , for the most part , understandable in terms of the characteristics and circumstances of the people they were telling us about , although there did seem to be a tendency for the staff of homes to put a more rosy interpretation on situations . |
| 30 | They called out our names and we had to follow where we think they were calling us from . |