Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Blundell 's School magazine later observed : ‘ Parisian cricket is not of the Comic Opera kind one would expect … we dreamt of French demon bowlers with pro-Boer tendencies hurling at us on bumpy wickets . ’ |
| 2 | ’ Famlio is looking for us in other sectors . |
| 3 | And what the force will say to us is that the force has overall priorities and they take precedent and that is to get sixty four P Cs back on the street , and our problems they will be looking to us for imaginative solutions |
| 4 | ‘ I remember her staying with us at Carinish Court , ’ James was saying . |
| 5 | At the Aegean Sea drunken middle-aged men drink and sing and sputter as packs of walruses do , calling to us in obscene and gravelly voices . |
| 6 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 7 | People are coming to us in great distress . |
| 8 | She was obviously under the influence of drugs , booze or both and as we approached , typically averting our eyes from the embarrassing spectacle , a girl of about 11 wiped a candle of yellow mucus from the woman 's nose and resignedly helped her to her feet , staring at us with old , resentful eyes as we passed , reminding me of myself and the Saturday afternoon rescue missions . |
| 9 | squinting at us with unspeakable pleasure , |
| 10 | Therefore the winds , piping to us in vain , |
| 11 | Because of the continuous pressure exerted by Irish , Black and other women over the years , some English Women 's Movement has died and that if they want must wake up to the fact that the middle-class , gentile English Women 's Movement had died and that if they want to go on referring to us as ethnic minorities then they will have to include themselves as a separate group . |