Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] we [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria . |
| 2 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |
| 3 | So we sort of switched all around now , so she eats with us at half past six stroke seven , goes up for a bath at seven thirty , eight o'clock and she 's in bed by nine , then she , she 's usually asleep by half past ten , but eh , it seems to have cured the problem we had with her , wanting , wanting me all the time , after she 's gone to bed . |
| 4 | This attitude was kept alive by the strong sense of the permanence of human arrangements in the matter of property , which seems to us of all things the least permanent : gifts to the Church were made to last till the Day of Judgement , and many of the documents in the Canterbury archives invoked God and all his saints on the Day of Judgement to destroy those who violated their provisions . |
| 5 | It is the argument founded upon analogy with R.S.C. , Ord. 24 , r. 14A and it seems to us in this context a little stronger . |
| 6 | God speaks to us in many ways . |
| 7 | This contrasts with the ‘ proper ’ business practice of prioritizing , following an agenda , and excluding the personal ( which often reappears with us in various professional disguises ! ) . |
| 8 | Prayer for strength is appropriate at any stage of our lives and might well be made daily but that does not invalidate the usefulness of marking one day in our life when someone prays over us in public and asks that out of the treasures of his glory , God may grant you strength and power through his spirit in your inner being that through faith cast may dwell in your hearts in love . |
| 9 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 10 | When God 's word on some matter comes to us in repeated form in different ways , it is worth reflecting whether we are really attending to the influence it is intended to have upon our beliefs and behaviour . |