Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] we in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 2 | When the blessed saint visited us in the church there , as before in vision , she came with showers of may-blossom . |
| 3 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 4 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 5 | ‘ The law leaves us in a very curious condition , ’ former consultant Alan Dixon told the Cox case jury . |
| 6 | The second point involves us in a difficulty . |
| 7 | Skip shows us in the book how his aspirations for the boat decrease and how newcomers to the boat had to get used to the crew 's relaxed attitude . |
| 8 | A bomb hit us in the night , d' ya not know that ? |
| 9 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 10 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 11 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
| 12 | SOME SAY Martin Scorsese 's return to the streets of Downtown New York makes heroes of the very villains it hopes to demystify , but GoodFellas ' opening scenario leaves us in no doubt . |
| 13 | 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Conflict affects us in a variety of ways . |
| 15 | But negative pride keeps us in a state of mind that resists change . |
| 16 | And I did n't know about the drugs until the Customs launch stopped us in the bay . |
| 17 | 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 ’ ) . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |
| 20 | Here were people through no fault of their own , government policy , mismanagement and lo and behold , our union kick us in the bloody face because you 're unemployed . |
| 21 | ‘ The decision puts us in a very difficult position . |
| 22 | This differentiation puts us in a place of desire and of choice . |
| 23 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 24 | Just as we have adopted an intuitive approach to the concept of set so we shall allow our intuition to guide us in the matter of whether or not an explanation is logically acceptable : to formalise the notion of acceptability would take us too far afield , into symbolic logic . |
| 25 | That when someone — one man like Dr. Briant — starts to meddle with the functions of the power that is God , disaster stares us in the face . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | Fortunately the steam clothed us in a little decency . |
| 29 | Film of a speeded-up supermarket trip and Clockwork Orange puts us in the mood — a kind of delirium , happy when it pains — and William is our entertainment for the 60-minute duration . |
| 30 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |