Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ The law leaves us in a very curious condition , ’ former consultant Alan Dixon told the Cox case jury . |
| 2 | The second point involves us in a difficulty . |
| 3 | Her husband chased us in a jeep , and the oscillations of the basket told him what I was doing to his wife , and the poor man was jealous . ’ |
| 4 | Conflict affects us in a variety of ways . |
| 5 | But negative pride keeps us in a state of mind that resists change . |
| 6 | John Stuart Mill notices this ( he quotes the sentence in question , italicising ‘ and of individual qualities ’ ) , and proceeds ( 1 ) to ask what is meant by an ‘ individual quality ’ ; ( 2 ) as if he knows the answer to this question ( namely , the individual qualities of an object are ‘ the individual and instantaneous impressions which it produces in us ’ ) , to deny that predicating a quality of an object is predicating of it one of its individual qualities ; and ( 3 ) to say what it is to predicate a quality of an object ( namely , ‘ to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects ’ ) . |
| 7 | When we ascribe a quality to an object we intend to assert that the object affects us in a manner similar to that in which we are affected by a known class of objects . |
| 8 | ‘ The decision puts us in a very difficult position . |
| 9 | This differentiation puts us in a place of desire and of choice . |
| 10 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 11 | For this reason I am deeply committed to the cause of raising our profile , and you will all be aware of the initiatives that are under way to promote us in a wider role . |
| 12 | Fortunately the steam clothed us in a little decency . |