Example sentences of "[prep] us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are four of us on the full-time staff and four trainees . |
| 6 | Those of us on the receiving end know that there is a real financial crisis . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He said : ‘ But this case will be solved , all of us on the investigating team feel certain of that . |
| 10 | There were seven of us on the basic course , but Duncan and Lachlan , a divemaster , took us out in two groups . |
| 11 | The day we went , all four of us with the French students , up through the ilexes to the tower . |
| 12 | Then we split up , half of us for the safe houses round the lakes and the rest of us headed into the mountains . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | What price a higher handicap for those of us of the bow-legged persuasion . |
| 15 | The man leans against the gate two hundred yards ahead of us along the muddy path . |
| 16 | I thought of us as the little princes in the Tower , and of the city of London as the cruel torturer Hubert who at any moment might come and put out our poetic eyes . |
| 17 | Dietary fibre is the substance which makes the waste matter from the food we eat pass through us and out of us at the desirable , speedy , natural rate . |
| 18 | Ooh , various methods , er at the moment , we , there 's just solely six of us throughout the whole country , that er work on appeals , er we raise money through various means er from flag days in the street to major fund raising efforts , er and events that we organise er round the country . |
| 19 | All of us in the European socialist movement in the European trades union movement insists that employees are not just units of production , but are entitled to rights at work across the European community . |
| 20 | Our early ancestors lived in a world fraught with danger ; yet they were far more advanced in the art of survival than many of us in the modern world could ever envisage . |
| 21 | The Socratic-critical spectator finds miracles on stage arbitrary or childish ; and , in fact , most of us in the modern world are incapable of feeling any myth as a credible reality unless it is mediated through the abstractions of scholarship : our own mythology has been all but destroyed . |
| 22 | If anyone should be boasting , it is those of us in the Labour party . |
| 23 | The only constant is change , and this is particularly true for those of us in the new emerging divisions . |
| 24 | If this is not done I do n't think there will be any credibility left for any of us in the international community or in the United Nations . ’ |
| 25 | Most of us in the western world are fortunate in that we know where the next meal is coming from . |
| 26 | The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero . |
| 27 | Those of us in the disabled world are weary of words without action . |
| 28 | Management always kept a track on all the workers and treated those of us in the independent union very differently . |
| 29 | THE CASE of World Athletics versus All Credibitity has now reached such a pitch of mealy-mouthed , farcical dithering that some of us in the public gallery are considering leaping into the well of the court and making a noisy scene . |
| 30 | It must be a cause for concern to those of us in the public sector that in the period 1979–90 the percentage of children receiving private education increased from 5 per cent to 7.8 per cent a growth of over 50 per cent . |