Example sentences of "[v-ing] us [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | GUIL : As soon as we make a move they 'll come pouring in from every side , shouting obscure instructions , confusing us with ridiculous remarks , messing us about from here to breakfast and getting our names wrong . |
| 2 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 3 | Moreover , it allows us to talk more confidently of a psychic and cognitive unity of humanity without limiting us to absolute categories . |
| 4 | But why does this event persist in subjecting us to long rows of tap dancers , a breed of people whose only function in life is to display the disgusting effects of sweat and sequins under neon ? |
| 5 | betraying us like blind men 's steps . |
| 6 | In fact , I remember Mr Simpson , the landlord of the Ploughman 's Arms , saying once that were he an American bartender , he would not be chatting to us in that friendly , but ever-courteous manner of his , but instead would be assaulting us with crude references to our vices and failings , calling us drunks and all manner of such names , in his attempt to fulfil the role expected of him by his customers . |
| 7 | Mr. Andrew Welsh ( Angus , East ) : The Government are taking us into unknown waters with the changes in the legislation . |
| 8 | The Samaritans petitioned the Syrian king in order to dissociate themselves from the Jews , to be considered Sidonians and to give to their god the name of Zeus Hellenios : " Now you have dealt with the Jews as their wickedness deserves , but the King 's officers , in the belief that we follow the same practices as they through kinship with them , are involving us in similar charges , whereas we are Sidonians by origin , as is evident from our state documents . |
| 9 | Some pictures , Victorian engravings for instance , may be more useful for telling us about Victorian tastes , fashions , and expectations than for the scenes they portray . |
| 10 | We need you to continue to help us by telling us of potential hazards you see in the community . |
| 11 | Everybody scattered , including the scared young lady with the serious skin condition ; she just vanished out of the back of the café leaving us with smashed bottles and glasses . |
| 12 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |