Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] us in the " in BNC.

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1 Two boys arrive after spotting us in the distance .
2 We may seek out partners incapable of loving us in the way we need so as to experience again the brief hope that this time it will be all right or as Lisa Minelli sang in the film Cabaret , ‘ This time I 'll be lucky ’ , before the pain sweeps in again to overwhelm us .
3 He had grown up in Weston-super-Mare and had been working in local radio in Bristol before joining us in the mid 1970s .
4 The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves .
5 First , how dare she assume that our main goal is to walk , without consulting us in the first place .
6 The main quibble about classing us in the same generic clade is that Homo sapiens was named before the chimpanzee genus , Pan ; in fact chimps should properly be called the other two kinds of human .
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