Example sentences of "us [adv] [prep] [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The major Western degenerative diseases do n't happen in an instant — like infective diseases — but appear to creep up on us slowly as a result of years and years of bad eating . |
| 2 | The book tells us mostly about the problems of raising money that had to be done at each stop over . |
| 3 | Unless there 's a party of soldiers waiting for us somewhere along the route . |
| 4 | Seeing a typical villa from a distance , it would have looked to us rather like a Tudor house . |
| 5 | Exploring ideas of motherhood can plunge us right into the heart of mystical philosophy as well as into the practical world of child rearing . |
| 6 | At our April meeting our member Vic Smith took us right across the country in a talk entitled ‘ The Changing Railway Scene in East Anglia ’ . |
| 7 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
| 8 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 9 | Why cause ourselves so much anxiety , and spend so much time , money and energy on failed diet/exercise routines when the answer to all our problems is staring us right in the face . |
| 10 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
| 11 | Defined in this way , social change may be quantifiable — but as an historical concept it may tell us little about the experiences of ordinary people . |
| 12 | Secondly , membership in these occupational categories tells us little about the wealth of the person concerned . |
| 13 | It tells us little about the writer 's private feelings . |
| 14 | But , as numerous critics have pointed out , that a sitter is , or was once , present in front of the camera , tells us little about the shooting situation , the relationship between sitter and photographer , the equipment and techniques used . |
| 15 | Such indistinct features were , in the end , good enough to accurately establish the axial rotation rate but tell us little about the nature of the Mercurian surface . |
| 16 | Proust 's Faubourg St Germain was acutely aware of differences between them , but they tell us little about the distribution of power in France . |
| 17 | Present : Jesus who is very near and comes to us daily in the needs of our brothers and sisters ; where two or three gather in his name ; in the faces of those who show us Christ in joy and pain ; in Word and Sacrament . |
| 18 | There were tears in the eyes of the farmer as he shook us warmly by the hand . |
| 19 | " Perhaps they 're not Englishmen , " she said ; then , shaking us warmly by the hand : " Please , do n't be offended if you 're not . " |
| 20 | This tells us only about the feasibility of screening , not about effectiveness . |
| 21 | The extraordinary circumstances of the last three days have bound us together for a minimum of eighteen hours a day , breakfast , lunch and dinner , and we 've got to know each other well . |
| 22 | ‘ Yesterday Margrida was saying that when she saw us together at the lunch she felt we shared an affinity , ’ Ashley recalled . |
| 23 | Government has a responsibility , as well , to ensure that it promotes the common moral values that bind us together as a Nation . |
| 24 | Love is a strange force like gravity that holds us together in the transcendent and will suffer no parting . |
| 25 | Legge brought us together after the war . |
| 26 | All this contrasts sharply with the flimsy world of divination , of Madame Sosostris , which lands us unsurprisingly in the heart of London as we hear how all this ‘ fiddle ’ will always be found ‘ When there is distress of nations and perplexity/ Whether on the shores of Asia , or in the Edgware Road ’ . |
| 27 | I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ’ |
| 28 | An ‘ assiette de fromage ’ and classic Chateau Palmer 1978 lifted us gently towards the dessert . |
| 29 | They beat us all over the park . ’ |
| 30 | He ran us all over the shop . |