Example sentences of "they [vb mod] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As I said , life is not all plain sailing , there are troubles , there are storms and some of them are very fierce and some of them would cause us to , to wonder if there is an escape . |
| 2 | They may beat us at cricket and bike racing , but we are better on crags ! |
| 3 | They may threaten us in order to control us . |
| 4 | The seeds are all the external influences that tend to throw us out of balance and they may affect us on any level of our being ; on the physical level it may be something simple like being exposed to a cold wind , getting soaked in the rain or even some form of trauma . |
| 5 | Oh : car of menace , car of blight Cars the atmosphere ignite Greenhouse warming , Havoc forming Parkinson must see us right We 're au fait with entropy Gaia , Ecosphere , synergy Words for greening But their meaning 's A linguistic mystery Oh : politicians must invent Worship of environment Genuflecting by reflecting Words of verdant bafflement Now our water 's unfit to drink Too much aluminium and zinc No solution To pollution No-one can stand the stink Oh : public filth and pestilence Highlights private opulence Does the glitter , clear the litter All it needs is pounds and pence GOD REST YE MERRY God rest ye merry , gentle Greens Let nothing you dismay The much foretold apocalypse Is now well under way Not even Mr Gorbachev Can stop the world 's decay Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh , tidings of comfort and joy We ca n't eat meat or hens or fish The farming is too cruel The only food we now permit Is foul organic gruel Irradiated food and veg Now double up as fuel Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now everybody wants a car Though noise and fumes are vile The Iron Curtain fractures and The jams stretch back for miles Mobility and liberty Can not be reconciled Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy We think that greenhouse warming will Bring on the world 's demise If forests burn it 's not just trees but mankind too that fries But all this may be garbage Because scientists tell lies Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Consumers must buy less to reach Sustainability For galloping consumption is More lethal than TB So much for Third World dreams of fleeing Grinding poverty Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Unless we stop producing kids The planet will not cope No hope for birth controllers short of Kidnapping the Pope But since the Greens recycle people they May turn us into soap Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy In searching for clean energy The choice is pretty stark The floods that come when coal is burnt will keep us in the Ark But had Lord Marshall got his way We 'd all glow in the dark Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Dumb animals are much preferrred To flawed humanity Ill-treatment of old people may Provoke insanity But culling seals and whales is judged The worst profanity Oh tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Now Mrs Thatcher goes bright green A highly suspect hue Her policies have after all Kept filth and squalor blue It 's just another way she 's found To tell us what to do Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy With greenhouse gases , PCBs Sulphuric acid rain This fragile globe 's environment Is going down the drain It is a cosmic punishment That we ca n't start again Oh , tidings of comfort and joy , Oh tidings of comfort and joy Melanie Phillips OVERNIGHT FILE |
| 6 | ‘ They ought to thank us for letting our Thing do their job for them , ’ said Gurder solemnly . |
| 7 | I have been talking to the leaders in Medicine and Education and clearly there are many areas where we can and will be working together in telling the Government that they must support us in supplying quality services and that the Treasury is a support service , not the determinant of policy . |
| 8 | They 'll 'ang us after all ! ’ muttered Willy . |
| 9 | My guess is they 'll leave us to the forest . |
| 10 | ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night . |
| 11 | They 'll keep us in good standing with the king still . |
| 12 | ‘ You have to remember , ’ Ellen liked to lecture Thessy and me , ‘ just how absurdly wealthy they all are , and how desperately the wealthy want to be liked because they ca n't help feeling guilty about being so rich , so we only have to be obsequious , give them loads of booze , and pretend to be impressed by their entirely predictable and usually jejune opinions , after which they 'll reward us with an outrageously large tip — which is , after all , the sole reason for being nice to the ghastly creatures in the first place . ’ |
| 13 | You do n't believe for a minute that this government will stand by while the two biggest general unions get together , no way , they 'll attack us in any way they can and I warn ya they have n't run out of ideas yet . |
| 14 | They 'll turn us into little people . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ And do , for heavens ’ sake , be watchful or they 'll suspect us of collusion . ’ |
| 16 | Chapter 2 is concerned with the different feminist approaches that have been directed towards education , and how they might help us towards an understanding of higher education . |
| 17 | The bank chose Acse because , while ‘ other companies told us they could provide us with an Electronic Data Interchange translator , Acse was the only one who said , ‘ EDI is not a problem of technology , but a problem of integrating it into your existing systems , ’ ’ Gilmont said . |
| 18 | So we left there that Wednesday morning and they said they 'd give us until the Friday to think about it . |
| 19 | Er they used to march us round the playground you see and er I was in the back row and of course the teacher was at the front more or less . |
| 20 | N nowadays I hear erm or the lads who have been they go out They 've been working with contractor and they say how different it is when your mother was alive , everybody who came here they they used to join us for their dinner . |
| 21 | In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army … |
| 22 | I think the way we behave tells the other residents how we react when someone dies ; and so it 's almost like they 're watching us to see if we behave in a way they would want us to . ’ |
| 23 | the only thing they would , they would tell us about is what 's happening in Iraq , there |
| 24 | Frequently they would meet us at the Sunday-school gate , and we would go for a walk before tea . |
| 25 | Although we were suitably impressed by the mere twelve-footer caught in Likangloe , the hunters promised that before we left they would take us into what was known locally as the " Death Cave " to find the really big pythons . |
| 26 | And I can remember having big long sheets and they would take us into Nottingham and just dump you at a shop and say now you know , go in and fill that in . |
| 27 | Could you ask them at the meeting next week if they would like us on an outing to Denman because they 're , a lot of them do n't really know what Denman is do they ? |
| 28 | I wonder if they would supply us with a researcher |
| 29 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 30 | ‘ When they came back from the segregation unit they would thank us for getting the chance to get their heads together . ’ |