Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pron] [verb] us [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She continues : ‘ Ageism … is a prejudice which enables us all , young and old to consider old people as useless , incontinent , senile , asexual and immobile . ’ |
| 2 | The other major concern for women is about finding ways of living which give us more independence , more control over our own lives , and more self worth than is frequently the experience of women in subordination to men . |
| 3 | ‘ We hope that birth will be given to a document which will allow the coordinated action of European countries against the undesirable effects of increasing illegal migration which worry us all , ’ Mr Boross said . |
| 4 | ‘ We hope that birth will be given to a document which will allow the coordinated action of European countries against the undesirable effects of increasing illegal migration which worry us all , ’ Boross said before the meeting went into closed session . |
| 5 | BR chairman Sir Bob Reid welcomed the announcement as a ‘ breakthrough which gives us some investment headroom . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ I 'm sure my husband wo n't mind me saying that it was not his wealth which made us all respect him — although I 've heard my husband say many a time that the wealth of Mr D'Arcy of Moss Side by Manchester was of an enormity to make the sultans and pashas of the East take note — but it was not for that , not at all , that we , all of us who knew of him … ’ |
| 7 | We all had our recollections of our own special moments , but the abiding memory is of the blessed peach and tranquillity of the Shrine and the almost tangible bond of companionship and caring , love and laughter which bound us all together . |
| 8 | There were the bank recruitment stands ( 'If you give us all your money , we will let you queue in our bank when we 're open , and outside when we 're not ! ' ) and the MI5 stall ( 'Ever thought about Intelligence ? |
| 9 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
| 10 | I remember an American pilot with about 200 hours , a twin-engine Commercial and full Instrument Rating who visited us some years ago . |
| 11 | The text itself tells us more about the origins of Dame Sirith . |
| 12 | Reg tore this apart and produced wonderful cool refreshing water which revived us all . |
| 13 | However , it hardly seems satisfactory to say that it is conscience which tells us that conscience should be at the controls , for presumably self love would say the same of itself if given its head . |
| 14 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
| 15 | The variable which interests us most is that which is concerned with the various roles played by the individual . |
| 16 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
| 17 | ‘ We are actually now dealing with a substance which affects us all , not just the few people who take cannabis for recreational purposes . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We are dealing with a substance which affects us all , not just the few who take cannabis for recreational purposes . ’ |
| 19 | By looking at these developing years and investigating the transformations which take place you are entering new territories which begin to examine in earnest the role of the media and the effects stereotyping which influences us all . |
| 20 | In recent years we met less often and yet he could conjure up an incident which made us both feel it had all happened a few days ago . |
| 21 | From the man who told us that unemployment was a price well worth paying , we now have the strategy for the 1990s — ’ wait and see ’ . |
| 22 | It has been written and directed by James Dearden , the man who had us all on the edge of our seats with Fatal Attraction . |
| 23 | ‘ The old one-legged man who brought us all here for nothing ; and that boy who I 'm going to have the heart of ! ’ |
| 24 | ‘ Quite a turn you give us all , Miss Theda ! ’ |
| 25 | We even have a tiny yellowhammer which visits us each morning . |
| 26 | But then realism , as she knows , like journalism , does not exclude analysis : in fact her first book , Sartre , had ended in a mild sense of exasperation against philosophy itself , which she believed had frustrated Sartre by making him unable to write a great novel , ‘ a tragic symptom of a situation which afflicts us all ’ . |
| 27 | If the previous chapter of this Report is taken seriously , however , there is a challenge which faces us all . |
| 28 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
| 29 | The aspect of the disease statistics of the twentieth century which strikes us most is the tremendous rise , particularly since the Second World War , in the incidence of all chronic diseases , which prove more and more difficult to treat despite the vast array of modern pharmaceutical drugs now available . |
| 30 | That is the problem which faces us all . |