Example sentences of "[prep] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rank on rank they stretched to the horizon , their reflections shimmering towards us on a blue mirror . |
| 2 | The pilot cut the motor and the plane slid towards us with a curious hissing sound . |
| 3 | He became enormously excited and , as the rest of the party started back towards us with a huge mound of lavatory paper balanced on the ravioli , he hopped from foot to foot , clutching my arm . |
| 4 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 5 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 6 | One thing worth remarking about this is cosmology and astronomy in general is very unusual science in the sense that when we observe very distant objects in the universe we are observing the universe actually as it was in the past , because the light that 's coming towards us from a distant galaxy or cluster of galaxies actually left that object maybe millions or billions of years ago . |
| 7 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 8 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 9 | She looked pleadingly at Tamar as she said , ‘ Mebbe when t'summer comes , your Mam 'll let thoo come and stop wi' us for a few days . ’ |
| 10 | Karen did , and I could quite understand her apprehension at the prospect of trying to maintain her rigid code of etiquette beneath the hot southern sun , in a festive holiday atmosphere , with both of us under the same roof twenty-four hours a day . |
| 11 | And I think at the present time , all of us on the right are more concerned about getting the economy right and cutting government expenditure that carrying on with er schemes of a privatization that might or might not succeed . |
| 12 | From all of us on the six thirty team have a good evening . |
| 13 | But from all of us on the six thirty team this evening , have a very good night . |
| 14 | There are four of us on the full-time staff and four trainees . |
| 15 | Those of us on the receiving end know that there is a real financial crisis . |
| 16 | Secondly , erm actually most of the rest of us on the governing body , or many of the rest of us on the governing body , even though we 're not parent Governors , are either now or have been parents of children at Banbury School , and that includes some of the political members too , so that erm I hope we all share the same interests . |
| 17 | Secondly , erm actually most of the rest of us on the governing body , or many of the rest of us on the governing body , even though we 're not parent Governors , are either now or have been parents of children at Banbury School , and that includes some of the political members too , so that erm I hope we all share the same interests . |
| 18 | He said : ‘ But this case will be solved , all of us on the investigating team feel certain of that . |
| 19 | There were seven of us on the basic course , but Duncan and Lachlan , a divemaster , took us out in two groups . |
| 20 | Freddy was the only one of us with a real paying summer job . |
| 21 | The day we went , all four of us with the French students , up through the ilexes to the tower . |
| 22 | My first stop was at the Halcyon Days stand where I found Mrs Benjamin with her husband ; she runs the wonderful Halcyon Days shop in Brook Street , which is such a godsend to so many of us for an attractive last-minute present . |
| 23 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 24 | He does n't have to do anything , but about four Christmas 's ago I had the whole lot down , I had nine of us for the whole Christmas week , erm , Boxing Day I went in the kitchen , two of Diane 's friends had arrived , who lived in London and I went in the kitchen , I 'd had a bad dose of the flu virus that was |
| 25 | Perhaps I should have been frank with her , admitted honestly that I did n't love her and that if she insisted on marrying me she would be condemning both of us to a joyless union . |
| 26 | One afternoon Beth Porter , an American founder member of the company , invited the rest of us to a double bill of soft core porno movies in Piccadilly . |
| 27 | He admits to reservations about one of the central elements of McKenna 's work — the suggestion that DMT ( Dimethyltryptamine , a psychedelic which delivers a short 15-minute blast ) works the same for everyone , that it transports all of us to an alien realm , bringing us into contact with the ‘ machine elves of hyperspace ’ . |
| 28 | What price a higher handicap for those of us of the bow-legged persuasion . |
| 29 | The limitations in the work and conclusions of those of us of the older generation , may soon be painfully obvious if , in the future there will be an increase in the scale of the work and more opportunities for effective scientific study . |
| 30 | The man leans against the gate two hundred yards ahead of us along the muddy path . |