Example sentences of "[noun sg] [Wh det] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 2 | I propose that we reject the central image of ourselves as victims and install instead an alternative conception which sees us as an active force working in many different ways for our freedom from racial subordination . |
| 3 | I know , but we should n't have to borrow mother when I had to get back , to borrow my wages off Jes to get her tax for her car which left us with no money ! |
| 4 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 5 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 6 | Much later in the books of Samuel we find another story concerning the ark which reminds us of the battle with the Philistines . |
| 7 | Again after the middle ten lines there is another break which takes us into the last section of the poem with the words ‘ at last ’ . |
| 8 | Sections on Calligraphy , Illustration , Typography and Book Design make way for a commercial break which introduces us to 28 first editions of Penguin paperbacks . |
| 9 | I want to say that , given the political constraints , and the constraints of past practice which keep us within the old mould , it is a better-balanced mould than what preceded it . |
| 10 | The left-angled Swastika symbolizes the centripetal force related to the pull of gravity — the force which ties us to mental stagnation — decay and dissolution . |
| 11 | I have time to discuss only one lexical myth : this is the signpost which points us in the direction of precision . |
| 12 | One of the officers spoke English with a delightful Russian accent which reminded us of Mischa Auer 's motion picture roles . |
| 13 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 14 | As with IF , there is a law which allows us to " unnest " ALTs . |
| 15 | It will thus follow the path of tradition — and this becomes the vehicle which protects us against deviation . |
| 16 | He has a vision of it as a vehicle which prepares us for the presence of God . ’ |
| 17 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 18 | It is the device which allows us to ‘ speak the truth in love ’ ; be judicious about how we answer others in order not to offend them . |
| 19 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 20 | It is , then , custom which persuades us of it ; it is custom that makes so many men Christians ; custom that makes them Turks , heathens , artisans , soldiers etc . |
| 21 | It is the subtlety of this insidious process which blinds us to its true power — which is the power of advertising , of education , of good or bad parenting . |
| 22 | On Nov. 20 Strauss-Kahn blamed the outcome of the negotiations on the UK 's current presidency of the EC , describing it as " calamitous and claiming that " the British have a way of chairing the Community which puts us in difficulty facing the Americans " . |
| 23 | Well did one writer say : ‘ The evidence for the resurrection is the existence of the Church in that spiritual vitality which confronts us in the New Testament . ’ |
| 24 | Failure to define , at any rate in politics , is the principal factor which keeps us in employment . |
| 25 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 26 | There is an ‘ Essential ’ Chamber Music series with the peerless performances , and an ‘ Enterprise ’ collection which takes us into the worlds of Szymanowski , Berio , Ligeti , Schoenberg , Poulenc , Franz Schmidt , Stravinsky and others . |
| 27 | We need to try to understand the principle of the relationship between a woman and her home , and to work out a pattern which suits us as individuals . |
| 28 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 29 | Maybe part of the daisy 's popularity lies in its shape , a yellow disk fringed with white petals ( correctly ray-florets ) , a simple arrangement which reminds us of the sun . |
| 30 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |