Example sentences of "us [verb] [conj] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The police catch theyselves and rush us shouting and some start to shoot , straight into we . |
| 2 | Long before John Robinson 's Honest to God made Bonhoeffer known to a mass public , Hartwell persistently made us see that this theologian-martyr really mattered for post-war theology . |
| 3 | Let us remember that that assurance comes from British Rail , who , it was discovered in Committee proceedings on the Bill , designed platforms that were too short to take the trains that would come in to them . |
| 4 | Let us hope that this year we shall see an increase in the butterfly population , notably that rare member of the family Lyaenidae , known as the Foinland Blue . " |
| 5 | Let us hope that this situation does not arise and VAT is not imposed on books . |
| 6 | No doubt some will stay on to summer in Shetland and encourage us to hope that some day it too may be found nesting . |
| 7 | Indeed , many of us thought that more emphasis should be placed on the cooperative use of the land resources of the crofts , perhaps on the lines of the ‘ joint managements ’ developed in southern Italy by the Cassa per il Mezzogiorno . |
| 8 | Some of us felt that more attention could be paid to this aspect , particularly in order to obtain a greater economic return for the heavy expenditure on government assistance . |
| 9 | Our current predicament leads us to doubt whether any thought was given to job sharers when this restrictive and unhelpful legislation was drafted . |
| 10 | ( Let us pray that this fate may be averted . ) |
| 11 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |