Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He took us inside and introduced us to Kjell-Arne , a lanky , shy youth who worked for him and was told to make coffee , and Tove , the kennel girl . |
| 2 | All these factors — and many , many more which are now a fact of our fast-paced , deadline-packed daily lives — are still helping to create symptoms of stress to the point where a single encounter with an apparently dyslexic British Telecom directory enquiries operator can all but tip us over the brink . |
| 3 | Ensure they speak well of us rather than denigrate us to their friends . |
| 4 | Europa Europa , on the other hand , holds Solomon 's predicament up for our detached scrutiny , rather than involving us at gut level . |
| 5 | It 's a privilege and an honour for me to thank him , on your behalf , for coming here tonight and addressing us in the way he has . |
| 6 | us fifty winters more or drop us at this one now |
| 7 | He pulled the sheets aside and led us down some steps . |
| 8 | Come down now and help us with the boat . ’ |
| 9 | All you have to do to win is answer the three questions correctly and phone us with your answers on the Ovation Competition Hotline ( 0891 100734 ) . |
| 10 | We then asked him , if he could not go so far as to meet us in full , to introduce an empowering provision . |
| 11 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 12 | Come over here and join us by all means — but not too many of you , so we 'll vet you as you come in ; and not make getting in pleasant or easy ; and just please stick to your own districts , and keep your own religion and dance away to tambourines , or bow to the East , or whatever you like to do to remind you of home — or home as it used to be a hundred years ago but certainly is n't now — and are n't we clever , and kind , and good , the way we give you your roots back ? , and with any luck your children will grow up well-behaved and pleasant ; ours certainly are n't ; because your children come of a society which , being somewhere else and a long time ago , is probably better than ours . |
| 13 | Barbara Davies writes : ‘ It is astonishing how Somerville , as well as feeding us on the meagre wartime rations , saw to it that we had our full ration of tutorials ; and that University lectures were given in the Arts subjects when almost all the male academics had departed for the forces or war-work . |
| 14 | This Soviet specialist , whose views remain unofficial , proposed a Non-Alignment Pact for Afghanistan , ‘ which would both guarantee the West against our continued presence there and guarantee us against a Western presence ’ . |
| 15 | He could have slit our throats for us then and there and thrown us in the canal , likely as not . |
| 16 | But it was something else that filled us with terror . |
| 17 | Robin commented : ‘ The operation of the monthly audit has drawn the regional operations closer and assisted us in meeting even higher customer service standards . |
| 18 | Sometimes these less aggressive horses can behave very unexpectedly and take us by surprise . |
| 19 | Having failed to break us politically or silence us through censorship , the role of the death squads is to kill us . ’ |
| 20 | As most of us have to work to earn a living , the short winter days limit our riding considerably and leave us with the choice of riding before or after work in the dark or only at weekends , unless you are lucky enough to have access to an indoor school . |