Example sentences of "for us [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We tried for compensation and we 've got Tony Baldry , who we 're going to see Saturday , and he 's going to try and claim for us under the Criminal Injuries Compensation Act . |
| 2 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 3 | He says being a little forgiving I could praps forgive them a little for us on the 1952 test , the first , but I ca n't forgive them for what they did to these other lads on the later tests , they must have known something from Nagasaki , Hiroshima and Bikini atoll tests . |
| 4 | I was particularly thrilled with the guys who scored the points for us on the final day , Mark James , Jose-Maria Olazabal , Jose-Maria Canizares , Ronan Rafferty and Christy O'Connor Jnr. , because in the case of Canizares , Ronan and Christy they had n't scored a point in the games they played and it was nice for them to take some of the glory . |
| 5 | Do n't worry , I 've told the solicitors that are appearing for us on the sixteenth of July that that 's the situation , that the have not joined in all of the partners |
| 6 | Nick actually captained the Palace on occasions in Walker 's absence , and he went on to play regularly for us throughout the first three wartime seasons , before his duties in the Royal Navy prevented him continuing his Palace career . |
| 7 | While Famlio was looking for us near the Fraxilly sector , we 'd be elsewhere . |
| 8 | He passed them on to another colleague who led us finally to our places which were kept for us in the Grand Salon . |
| 9 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
| 10 | Now we were using a rather old radio set at the time called a TR9 that was not one of the better things that our radio and radar boffins produced for us in the early days of RT air-to-ground and vice-versa . |
| 11 | The more in touch we are with our own life experience , the greater chance we will have of listening to God screaming his love for us in the ordinary events of our lives . |
| 12 | George moved to Sheffield to play for The Wednesday in the summer of 1925 but his 48 goals for us in the higher divisions , scored generally when we were far from being a great side , were easily our best tally in the period 1921–5 and have only ever been bettered by Mark Bright and Ian Wright . |
| 13 | It is not necessary for us in the present case to decide whether this distinction is a legitimate one and I do not think we should assume to do so . |
| 14 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
| 15 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |
| 16 | As it is , with four seasons lost to the War , Jimmy reached 200 Southern League games , so that even today he is comfortably within our top forty all-time appearances , while only Joe Johnson and Harry Collyer played more often for us in the Southern League . |
| 17 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 18 | John soon made a niche for himself in Palace 's defence , making his debut at home to Bristol Rovers ( 1–0 ) the day after his signature had been obtained , and scoring his first goal for us in the 8–2 FA Cup demolition of Harwich and Parkstone three weeks later . |
| 19 | A Sky spokesman added : ‘ We agreed to a police request that Bobby Gould should not be at the ground , even though he worked for us in the same capacity at the first match between the two sides . ’ |
| 20 | In the words of the council leader , the new department was set up to ‘ act in a political manner ’ with a function of ‘ political mobilization ’ and , according to its first co-ordinator , ‘ part of the challenge for us in the local authority is to try to reintroduce some political perspective ’ ( quoted in Duncan and Goodwin , 1988 , p. 85 ) . |
| 21 | However , it was extremely important for us in the next few years to develop this usage . |
| 22 | Unless there is news of a signing for us in the next few days I am seriously think of saying fuck off to Leeds . |
| 23 | Harry played in eight of the last nine Palace Football League matches of season 1921–22 and scored two goals for us in the last eight minutes on his debut to help Palace defeat Bury 4–1 at The Nest on 25 March , but all these appearances were in the inside or centre-forward positions . |
| 24 | That 's quite specific to the tax bracket but the source of work in Leeds has been very much from er corporate finance and from the insolvency practice , whilst that is er obviously a way forward for us in the initial stages . |
| 25 | Mohammed has provided this service for us in the Toubkal massif over many years . |
| 26 | This fact is a trifle obscured for us by the modern doctrine of the holiday . |
| 27 | It was put here for us by the Great Spirit and we can not sell it because it does not belong to us . |
| 28 | In the event , it proved to be even tougher , dominated for us by the worsening situation in California . |
| 29 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 30 | Surely all three are for us among the great achievements of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries ? |