Example sentences of "[noun sg] [adv] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 2 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 3 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 4 | She fumbled in her pocket for the key then let us in the side door . |
| 5 | The place of work also provides us with a base for social interaction . |
| 6 | The coach then took us into the Wachau Valley for lunch at another 5-star hotel and then after a short walk through the medieval village and Durnstein Castle , we went on to the ‘ UND ’ Monastery at Krems for a wine tasting . |
| 7 | An absolute conception of poverty thus alerts us to the fact that health — for some or all of the family — will be bartered in the struggle to meet basic needs . |
| 8 | She asks us if we would agree that Julia Roberts is the most stunning thing we 've ever seen , and we have to admit that Julia 's extraordinarily wide mouth and upturned nose always remind us of someone with their face pressed against a plate-glass window . |
| 9 | The husband now joined us in the street and the fracas escalated . |
| 10 | The Community even tells us through which fields we are to put our roads . |
| 11 | Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker , impress us with the illusion of design and planning . |
| 12 | Such an event normally takes us to Dartmoor or Exmoor , has run on the same basis for the last few years and is planned to the last minute — so why the meeting ? |
| 13 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 14 | You may walk with me like a civilised man if you care to , but I warn you there 'll be an archer behind to keep us in view , so 1 would n't advise you to try any tricks , they 'd do you no good . ’ |
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| 16 | And that implies that our learning together engages us in dynamic encounter dynamic dialogue which also releases some of those energies in various areas of life that would otherwise be sealed or indeed , locked ! |
| 17 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 18 | We therefore petition you as our benefactor and saviour to command Apollonius the governor of the district not to molest us in any way , since we are distinct from them both in race and customs … and we ask that the temple without a name be known as that of Zeus Hellenios " ( Ant . |
| 19 | Comparison also points us to an important dimension of law already discussed : besides regulating behaviour or social relations , legal systems also — in different societies to different degrees — contain a symbolic or rhetorical dimension , in other words , law forms part of the ideological system of a society . |
| 20 | In spite of its loose thinking Lorentz 's argument really takes us to the nub of the whole Hollywood system . |
| 21 | Rainbow almost runs us off the road . |
| 22 | Thus our falling plasma adrenalin and body temperature in the evening prepare us for sleep by toning us down , just as rising values from 5 o'clock in the morning onwards prepare us for the rigours of a new day . |
| 23 | Opposing censorship therefore leads us into the position of defending pornography . |
| 24 | Instead it is presented as though it really were neutral , detached and scientific , and that the description reliably tells us of Wolof mental states rather than of Wolof cultural conventions . |
| 25 | As I have emphasised three times , the previous Select Committee on Health and Social Services made a number of pleas to the Government not to get us into the position that we are in now . |
| 26 | Gravity still pins us to the planet . |
| 27 | My old man occasionally joined us on a Saturday morning , but only to get some cash off Granpa so that he could go to the Black Bull and spend it all with his mate Bert Shorrocks . |
| 28 | The Secretary of State helpfully reminded us of the enormous changes and potential changes in the Soviet Union . |
| 29 | Again , the explanation still defeats us for the reason why and how Claxby box , locked up and deserted , could give the 5-5-5 bell code to Market Rasen ( the bell code for opening signalbox ) . |
| 30 | These two areas of convergence also direct us to the main area of divergence and the reason why , though in actuality inextricably related , the psychic and the cultural return of homosexuality still need to be distinguished . |