Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] us [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 So I mean it 's seventy miles so it should only take us another hour .
2 It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design .
3 Michael had tried to book Guildford , but they would only offer us one week as they felt we could n't guarantee an audience for longer .
4 It 'll just give us some breathing space .
5 Even if the search for primordial black holes proves negative , as it seems it may , it will still give us important information about the very early stages of the universe .
6 ‘ It would also give us more capacity for spot colour which more advertisers seem to require , ’ said Mr Morton .
7 Pocket Book 's big summer read is from a promotable young actress , Lucinda Edmonds , with Lovers and Players ; Marsha Hunt does n't quite give us another Joy in her new one , Free ( Penguin ) , but her fans wo n't know that until they 've bought it .
8 A scientific law or theory should ideally give us some information about how the world does in fact behave , thereby ruling out ways in which it could ( logically ) possibly behave but in fact does not .
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