Example sentences of "us [verb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 2 | We were all of us outcasts ; we were all of us flung out by the Lords of Tara , who were jealous of their lineage and protective of their inheritance . |
| 3 | Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot . |
| 4 | I sat down beside her , both of us gazing out through the mist at the heaving , pounding water , the noise of it thundering in our ears , filling our whole world with sound . |
| 5 | Judy , an elegant woman in her early 40s with a peaceful demeanour , bids us sit down in the verandah . |
| 6 | Er if , if there is a sufficient er indication in these words an indication , a pointer as I say , if there 's a transparency in these words which enables us to see through to the truth then our formulation of it does n't matter all that much . |
| 7 | Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) . |
| 8 | You know why she did n't want us to go up into the bathroom ? |
| 9 | Moderator I think er Mr wants us to go back to the words reconciliation . |
| 10 | She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan . |
| 11 | so , we went into Morecambe and he asked us to go back in the farm again with this ladder |
| 12 | Let us think back to the proposition of the right hon. Member for Chesterfield ( Mr. Benn ) , who reminded us of our history . |
| 13 | At the end of the rollout the tailwheel lock was disengaged to allow us to amble back round the peri-track ; thereafter the shutdown followed usual pattern of a cooling-down period , a magneto check and the pulling out of the mixture to full lean . |
| 14 | It is a curiously unreal state of affairs , a world that none of us lives in outside the study . |
| 15 | The physical reactions that stress triggers help us to jump out of the way of a passing bus , or win the egg and spoon race at the village sports day . |
| 16 | It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion . |
| 17 | From us meeting back in the February , I knew you were special . |
| 18 | Be too sordid for both of us to drink out of the bottle . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ And now it is gone , all gone … the communists have thrown in the sponge and left us bouncing around in the ring looking for an opponent . |
| 20 | ‘ Ed really had us pumped up before the Senior Cup final at Massereene . |
| 21 | As the crowd of us came out of the car , he leaned backwards over Mr Quigley 's fence and spat , slowly and deliberately , into the geraniums . |
| 22 | There is a strong argument er for us to revert back to the previous legal state of affairs in which the anonymity was preserved both of the complainant and of the defendant . |
| 23 | If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death . |
| 24 | She would come back to camp after a day off , call in at the office to see what was going on , and if we were all running around like headless chickens , snowed under with miles of paper from the teleprinter , and an irate Wing CO was tearing his hair out because the visibility had suddenly slumped from three miles to fifty yards and all his boys were up there somewhere running out of fuel , Rosemary would calmly take over the plotting while one of us rushed out to the screen to read the instruments , or go into the screaming teleprinter to shut off the insistent ear-piercing bell which was reminding everybody within hearing that we were late in sending in the hourly observation . |
| 25 | The summit may be an opportunity — I know that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is encouraging other Heads of State to attend it — that will enable us to put over to the British population the need to recognise that there is a balance , an interdependence and a need for the transfer of resources . |
| 26 | Having discussed coloured water and clear water briefly let us move on to the reality of the situation as we find it when we arrive for a session . |
| 27 | Before lunch Eva had us traipse out into the garden , where we bent and stretched , and sat with our backs straight , and breathed through alternate nostrils before we ate our salads and fruit . |
| 28 | Let us face up to the reality of these fears and face them in the power of the cross . |
| 29 | It appears that rather than allowing us to enter a realm of meditation and escapism so associated with abstraction these paintings are determined to make us face up to the ambiguities in our readings of the visual world . |
| 30 | I think I 'll try and go for the scouse game then ( unless that is going to be postponed — would it depend on us getting through to the next round of the FA Cup ? ) . |