Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The monitoring function helps us in making decisions by comparing past situations to the current situation . |
| 2 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 3 | In 1896 while sculling at Putney , an oarsman had been sunk by a stone-throwing youth , and in the following year there was a complaint that a yacht 's skylight had been broken at Lambeth Bridge and then ‘ a shower of horse dung greeted us at Chelsea ’ . |
| 4 | The song writer , the hymn writer reminds us in those tremendous words of that other old hymn , when he says nothing in my hand I bring , simply to your cross I cling . |
| 5 | A pickup truck passed us with three men in the back sheltering under a tarpaulin . |
| 6 | Nor will future researchers thank us for leaving them a vast amount of dross which makes the location and comprehension of useful material more difficult . |
| 7 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 8 | We have offered to produce , on demand , any other communications which braille readers ask us for . |
| 9 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 10 | Erm now one of the things that the tenants ' action group asked us about initially when they asked us to get in involved in the , in the advice sessions in the flats , was whether or not the tenants would be able to claim additional compensation , over and above what was already being offered . |
| 11 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 12 | For the first race the trainer friend advised us to back a horse called , I think , Super Duper . |
| 13 | I make the observation that given the Opposition 's effort to determine the Government 's view two or three years from now , I can only conclude that Opposition Members expect us to be in government after the next general election . |
| 14 | Before my right hon. Friend the Secretary of State made his announcement , Opposition Members accused us of creating a situation where there would be no taper , but a cut-off and said how cruel that would be . |
| 15 | This talk/slide show took us to many of the stations forming part of the former Cambrian system . |
| 16 | Our second association item takes us to a late autumn in the next reign . |
| 17 | Jackie from Marriage Lines takes us through day and evening invitations embossed with clinking champagne flutes and bordered in watered silk . |
| 18 | Fortunately , the situation is beginning to change as allied disciplines like machine intelligence provide us with models that will allow us to construct theories that are both realistic and have heuristic power . |
| 19 | an exhibition structured around concepts of ‘ memory ’ in the context of the 20th Century Gallery might raise some interesting questions about processes of selection by addressing not only what museum collections enable us to ‘ remember ’ but also the ways in which they facilitate ‘ forgetting ’ . |
| 20 | The socialization process trains us to ‘ have a stiff upper lip ’ and not express our feelings in an open , straightforward way . |
| 21 | Five or six machine guns scythed us like grass . |
| 22 | Speech act theory provides us with a means of probing beneath the surface of discourse and establishing the function of what is being said . |
| 23 | A crisp winter morning greeted us with snow quilted in twinkling ice crystals . |
| 24 | A sharp turn to the south east took us past St Ives , and up a massive sand-filled estuary towards Hayle . |
| 25 | We will defend vigorously the libel proceedings commenced us by Virgin and its owner and any other proceedings they choose to commence . |
| 26 | The image is invasive , yet we are compelled to look , for the privilege gaze Mann offers us in hard to deny . |
| 27 | Our admission charge rations us to one programme . |
| 28 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |
| 29 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 30 | There would be no hard news , said the DoI , but if we were interested in learning the background it would bring together some experts on fibre optics to brief us on this new technology . |