Example sentences of "[noun sg] [be] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | What , I had in mind is to get us to a point where if we decided that we do want to recruit somebody we can do that within er er a much shorter time scale than than our |
| 2 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 3 | I suspect it may soon be superseded by a very different idea derived from evolutionary theory and the knowledge molecular biology is giving us about the genetic control of brain processes . |
| 4 | Employees in the leisure department have worked extremely hard to bring this prestige event to Stockton and we end up with a situation where the first person of the town is kicking us in the teeth . ’ |
| 5 | The form of prayer is unimportant ; whatever the form its aim is to bring us into communion with the divine . |
| 6 | His desire is to keep us inside our barracks ( or , more appositely , behind the battlements of our homes ) . |
| 7 | Bryan 's aim was to wean us off complete reliance on precise diagnostic features , and to get us to concentrate on the ‘ Personality ’ of each species ; on the way it holds itself , feeds , moves , calls ; its general behaviour and first glance appearance — ‘ jizz ’ for short . |
| 8 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 9 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 10 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 11 | We wait until trouble comes , until trouble is staring us in the face , before we really feel the need of God , and pray . |
| 12 | Well that policem that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di |
| 13 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 14 | Mr. Andrew Welsh ( Angus , East ) : The Government are taking us into unknown waters with the changes in the legislation . |
| 15 | I have no doubt about it that the government are urging us at this moment , er I I am concerned about that , they are urging us by the er |
| 16 | The Government are leading us to a shambles . |
| 17 | Our very success is leading us into a dangerous future … |
| 18 | I think the monarchy is stopping us from being a classless society but I ca n't think of one country in the world whether it 's communist , whether it 's a new country like Australia what does n't have the rich , the poor , the upper class and the lower |
| 19 | ‘ Gillian 's uncle is fetching us in his car , Brown Owl , ’ replied Carol . |
| 20 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 21 | Well union , you know the union in the coal mines and all different well er everywhere in the North Wales here to , postmen , well every union was helping us with them . |
| 22 | Now as economists we should have strong prides about income in this model , we would all , we would expect income to be very important in explaining textile consumption although the model is telling us at the moment , income does n't seem to be significantly explained in textile consumption so that 's something to worry about , we 're getting some , er sort of peculiar results here . |
| 23 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 24 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |
| 25 | James laughed , ‘ Look at them , Angus , look at the people , they are rampant now , this is better than ‘ Forty-five , nobody is dying , no royal fop is leading us into the bog . |
| 26 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 27 | ‘ The need for the introduction of internment is staring us in the face , ’ Mr Maginnis insisted . |
| 28 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 29 | Pop 's role in this struggle is to lure us into truancy from our better selves . |
| 30 | It is as if an invisible force field is keeping us at arms length . |