Example sentences of "the [noun] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | erm Rusty in the fact that erm we have n't been able to sort of erm get out on the field with a ball in our hand , erm but erm our coach erm Ian McMillan has taken the opportunity to drag us into the gym and give us quite erm hard fitness sessions , so the fitness is still erm quite high on our side , but erm handling the ball will be a little bit rusty , but hopefully this week , now all the snow 's gone , we 'll be able to get out and erm move the ball about at training . |
| 2 | Onions are the link to take us to the nearby open market where we see these and other vegetables on display . |
| 3 | In narratives as diverse as Jane Eyre and Great Expectations , we are aware , when reading , of a certain inevitability of outcome : the writer has us by the hand — in his or her hand , almost — and we know we will be led , not necessarily to a happy conclusion but that the narrative will be resolved at a place that feels safe and right , that leaves us satisfied . |
| 4 | One of these took Venturous to the Bristol Channel and the South Wales ' ports , and a later one was made to the north of Scotland with the Board joining us at Aberdeen . |
| 5 | When the whole structure is still , as it were , in two parts we have a noun phrase such that there is no reason to suppose that it has the property of the adjective ; when the structure is united we find first , that the property of the adjective does apply to the noun phrase , and , second , that the verb tells us of a temporal change . |
| 6 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 7 | None the less , the Committee considered that the instruments were available and the time ripe for achieving this enormous ambition : " We have the advantage given us by then necessity of a new departure among rapidly changing conditions , and by the opportunity of avoiding some causes of past failure " . |
| 8 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 9 | Before we move on , let's just have a look at those numerical estimates , can we look at the coefficients on income , notice that in this model because we 've logged both dependent and the independent variables , right , the coefficients that we estimate are elasticities , right , so we can read those coefficients off directly as elasticities and that 's the case for any model in which all the variables are logged right , in er , if we did n't log the data , in order to calculate the elasticity we have to multiply a coefficient the computer gives us by a erm price quantity ratio , price less , less part of the income constant ratio to obtain the income elasticities . |
| 10 | ‘ The decision puts us in a very difficult position . |
| 11 | While the objectors to Foxley Wood — and to Tillingham and Stone Bassett before it — may be rejoicing , the decision leaves us with no solutions to the future growth of population and households in the region . |
| 12 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 13 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 14 | The starter called us to our marks . |
| 15 | The starter called us to our marks , we got set , the gun went off and I dawdled on the blocks . |
| 16 | The crowd fell silent as the starter called us to our blocks . |
| 17 | Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner . |
| 18 | The story takes us through his films , shows , tours , from The Man Who Fell To Earth ( about which Nicholas Roeg recalls , ‘ I was asked by the company — can he act ? — to which I replied — what do you mean can he act ? |
| 19 | Yet the time taken to tell the story draws us into the timelessness of the forest and gives the unfolding tragedy its full , ironic measure . |
| 20 | Every day the Canyon humbles us with some new wonder : a 2,000ft sheer wall of red limestone , a golden eagle soaring down to the river to fish , a natural rock amphitheatre which would comfortably accommodate a full orchestra and 20,000 people . |
| 21 | The truck took us to where the Imlil-Toubkal road branched off at the market town of Asni and there we swapped to the normal ‘ shared taxis ’ into Marrakech for a merry night at the Hotel Ali — famous for its buffet dinners and the starting point for many adventures . |
| 22 | Rupert Hall 's short history of the college guides us through the years leading up to this event , then on through the 20th century to recent times . |
| 23 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 24 | We went off to parade for lunch ; this meant ten minutes doing press-ups with the Corporal halting us in mid exercise so that we were poised between the ground and the arms-stretched position — as our limbs weakened so people started to slump and collapse , which resulted in kicks and blows . |
| 25 | Again , all the boys are circumcised according to tradition , and we do not need to flash the penis to prove us to be nice , Jewish boys . |
| 26 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 27 | Then again , we 've had Echo & The Bunnymen supporting us in front of 3,000 Seig Heil-ing loonies throwing bottles and chairs at them . |
| 28 | ‘ The portacabin provided us with a way to offer them the best possible service under the circumstances . ’ |
| 29 | In that way the electorate see us as people first , Conservatives second and politicians third . |
| 30 | We shall deal separately later with public service job losses , as a continuing feature of the 1980s , but the data justify us in paying prime attention to manufacturing . |