Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If our constitution does not altogether submerge us in wishful thinking , that is because pain and misfortune force themselves on attention from outside . |
| 2 | Spending our lives in jealousy and envy can only isolate us from other people and make us unhappy . |
| 3 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 4 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 5 | The ongoing commitment can only hold us in good stead in the eyes of our established and potential clients as a company of recognised capability . |
| 6 | The panel contains a cantharus which is comparable to that in the central roundel of mosaic B , North Hill.7 In the latter , the base and lower body of the cantharus do not survive , so depriving us of valuable comparative evidence . |
| 7 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |
| 8 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 9 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 10 | Quite how the party which has successfully brought us to economic misery and industrial impotence can make such a claim seems to suggest some very muddled thinking . |
| 11 | The power of the media to psychologically influence us in other ways is not in doubt . |
| 12 | Our thesis is that our traditional models and ways of thinking do not allow us to understand complex processes and — which is worse : often mislead us about appropriate responses . |
| 13 | Only Germany , Holland , Japan and Switzerland can now match us for economic growth , price stability and strong balance of payments , says Dr David Lomax , the Natwest 's economic adviser . |
| 14 | Thus the name ‘ man ’ is simply a name used for a number of particulars , and any idea of ‘ man ’ is always an idea of some particular man , and simply reminds us of other particulars . |
| 15 | did n't even last us into New |
| 16 | They were engraved with elaborate scenes of myth and ritual and consequently provide us with valuable information about the Minoans ' religious beliefs ( see Chapter 6 ) . |
| 17 | Whilst variational methods at least provide us with upper bounds , many modern approaches such as the use of many-body perturbation theory are non-variational . |
| 18 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 19 | Presumably if the different defences had been split between several Hic Mulier figures the problem ( for us ) would disappear — again alerting us to certain , not necessarily appropriate , interpretative assumptions . |
| 20 | They never put us in foster care . |
| 21 | However , we 're also starting to deal with other types of retailers such as the mail-order houses , and that will very likely involve us in different messaging standards . |