Example sentences of "be [adv] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ You 've been slowly starving us to death , ’ they said . |
| 2 | ‘ Details are just reaching us of a major breakthrough in the Martian revolution , ’ Derek Carlisle announced . |
| 3 | I mean , I mean they are , they 're , they really are you know , we 're so complacent in this country , Mr Cameron , I , I do n't know , do you know , they 're just hitting us in every direction , my goodness me , you , you know , you 'll be afraid to breathe without they 'll want to target that . |
| 4 | So they they 're actually asking us for five hundred and ninety five pounds . |
| 5 | ‘ People are always comparing us to Bogshed ’ , slurs Carl in the band van after the third encore and the obligatory dressing room conversation with two fully grown men with Baldrick haircuts , plastic carrier bags , tatty combat jackets , thick lensed NHS glasses and lots and lots of badges . |
| 6 | Now the tory party are forever lecturing us about choice are they not . |
| 7 | I do n't know who this is against , and I 'm off to see us v ippo in any case . |
| 8 | If we 're not careful they 'll be demanding single table bargaining and they 'll be then putting us in the minority in local authorities and we 're gon na see this union under tremendous offensive as a quarter of our membership in local authorities , so we need to get our act together and get on top of this now . |
| 9 | ‘ People are n't allowing us to just get on with the job . |
| 10 | While the plodding votary of meaning is anxiously inquiring out the sense … his fellow-worshipper , remembering that our eyes were not given us for nothing … roves , in gazing ecstasy from page to page , till here and there arrested by the choice vignette or richly tinctured plate . |
| 11 | Yeah although in fact the roadworks were , were not slowing us down it was , it was the approach to the M three junction was , was really very bad but the erm the road the , the roadworks at Heathrow , we just sort of breezed through that . |
| 12 | An aggressive mob of youngsters had been closely dogging us for some time and , emboldened by our apparent failure to notice them or to quicken our pace , had begun throwing stones . |
| 13 | Life is constantly astonishing us by confronting us with new kinds of character , and thereby with different kinds of goodness . |
| 14 | Erm Lisa is that I 'm not quite sure , from the York University student rooms , is in to help us with the big box pile up . |
| 15 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 16 | But Cooper 's figures also possess a larger than life boldness due not so much to childlike innocence but to the kind of confidence we imagine Eve and Adam had before the Fall , However , she is not confronting us with an easily gained optimism nor do her disembodied heads , upturned women and mild impassive eyes really evoke a vision of dream . |
| 17 | Paul is not asking us to be passive . |
| 18 | So when he maintains that because we are , Truth or God is , or that God is the sum total of life , it could be argued that he is not presenting us with some kind of cosmological argument for the existence of God and that it is not his purpose to argue from the world to God . |
| 19 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 20 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |
| 21 | Well , the work of the Spirit in the believer is supremely to transform us from one degree of glory to another : that is to say , to make us more and more like Christ . |
| 22 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 23 | But it 's probably costing us about er , three quarters of a million to a million just now net . |
| 24 | He 's probably watching us from behind one of these pillars , making his mind up . |
| 25 | It 's really dropped us in it . |
| 26 | It 'll all be all right when the Vice President goes to Riyadh to sit down with the Iranians and they find out that our hostages come home , and the Ayatollah is either helping us in Central America or the contras . |
| 27 | Danjit liked to get in pointed little jibes like , ‘ Hey , bow everybody , her ladyship 's actually gracing us with her presence ! ’ |
| 28 | I watched Paul play his second and I 'm sure he was just like us on the 9th , in between clubs . |
| 29 | As the place was really his gig we could n't use it without him We 'd been talking about it for ages — and Bernie was always badgering us about it — but we 'd not really done anything about it . |
| 30 | One particularly persistent gentleman was clearly using us as a punchbag for his English . |