Example sentences of "[v-ing] us [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I say that because all the engines of recovery seem incapable of driving us out of the recession . |
| 2 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 3 | tossing us out at the wall . |
| 4 | picking us out in the battered kiosk . |
| 5 | Lining us up on the waste ground behind our barrack block , he had made the original offenders climb a pine tree until their bodies were jammed in the lower branches . |
| 6 | Alarm clocks waking us up in the middle of the night ; absenteeism at an all-time high during the day games ; the thrill of success and the despair of defeat for the national team — they were new experiences to many . |
| 7 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 8 | There was also a Corporal of the week — Vigno — and his duties included the more mundane tasks of getting us up in the mornings and making sure that the rooms were kept clean . |
| 9 | The heart , or the inner life , is therefore a great teacher , pointing us back to the source of all happiness — to God himself . |
| 10 | So this morning the fat little chap in the long white coat who was sorting us out in the Dean 's Office said I 'd better come along here for a few days until they got me organized with another partner . |
| 11 | They 'll be fobbing us off with the flowers and the chocolates . |
| 12 | Then the force suspending us up among the chandeliers evaporated . |
| 13 | They 're warming us up for the next attack . ’ |
| 14 | Locking us out of the room like that . |
| 15 | in effect what you 're doing is helping us out with the cost that we incurred in getting it and the help that we 've done you . |
| 16 | I tried to keep my feelings under control and remember that all these people were mostly helping us out of the goodness of their hearts , but sometimes it was difficult . |
| 17 | ‘ And tomorrow they wo n't be attacking strong positions , they 'll be hitting us out in the open . |
| 18 | The work of the symbolic , of the American television institution , in articulating this technical and imaginary possibility is to break it , interrupt , withdraw by separating the text into saleable parts , breaking up the promise of coherence and wholeness into short sessions , as it were , constantly jerking us out of the dream of coherent signifieds into the world of the endless play of signifiers . |