Example sentences of "us [adv] [verb] [pron] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | … she call us in to do 'er dirty work for her , build 'er up , she wants us out again 'cos she see that we 're gettin' education and we 're gettin' brainy , and we 're comin' into power so she wants us all out before we reach too high . |
2 | They called us in told us some information about there being no work , then left a pile of envelopes on a table telling us we had been made redundant . |
3 | Instead I concluded he was about as frightened of death as I am so why , in the good Lord 's name , did he get up and bore us stiff telling us different ? |
4 | Those benefits may be continued for a long succession of generations upon deserving objects , let us strenuously support our own undertaking : and may our children , and our children 's children feel an ardour even greater than our own in the cause of humanity ; so that as long as the County of Bedford exists , its Infirmary may be one of the chief objects of care , and one of the principal sources of its honest pride . ’ |
5 | But anyway , I do n't think they came after us just to get their little fee . ’ |
6 | I believe the readers ads fulfil a necessary part of the market , but let us not forget our local and national dealers . |
7 | By all means let us seek to prevent congenital abnormalities , but let us not betray our Hippocratic tradition in the process . |
8 | ‘ The thing is , ’ Jackie explained , ‘ none of us has much , so we ought to put what we have together in case one of us ever needs anything important . |
9 | Frankly , we have a problem with absence from work due to out of hours emergency work and sickness , which can put us off using our own people ! |
10 | With thoughts of conservation I can understand this but then one must understand the times when these were being worked and in the 19th and early 20th century this chalk gave a great many people employment and allowed families to be brought up in reasonably comfortable conditions and many of us now owe our very existance to these cement factories , our fathers and grandfathers earning their livings working on them . |
11 | yet without answers to these questions and others like them , it is impossible for us fully to understand our own history and , more importantly , impossible to advise today 's emergent nations on the routes they should be following . |
12 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |
13 | But I do not like to say much about Islay ; let us therefore remount our primitive carriage . |