Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [adj] of the " in BNC.

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1 After all , when you decided to buy a Toyota , you recognised the attributes that have made us one of the worlds foremost manufacturers and our cars such good quality and value .
2 But it has made us aware of the crusted , jewel-bright variety of Latin America behind things that more often lump its nations together .
3 The familiar story of the artists ' model ( female ) sitting for hours , days , even weeks on end , for a ( male ) artist , has brought us some of the great ‘ nudes ’ in art history .
4 ‘ We asked for ordinary Russians , but the embassy must have misunderstood and sent us some of the country 's creme de la creme .
5 Elaine Moss , in her short article ‘ The ‘ Peppermint ’ lesson' ( 1986 ) has given us one of the best accounts of the happy marriage of the right reader with the right book .
6 That reform has also given us one of the most successful inward investment records of any country , certainly in the European Community and arguably in the world .
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