Example sentences of "be [v-ing] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Psychobiology is particularly exciting at the moment because advances in instrumentation are bringing us new ways of studying the brain while areas like artificial intelligence are providing new ways of thinking about how it might work as the ‘ organ of behaviour ’ . |
| 2 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 3 | They 're cheering us all up . ’ |
| 4 | And you see the problem with erm depending on the unit , the bid off the spread etcetera , sometimes they 're paying us one pound ninety and it actually ends up in a nu mi minus unit situation |
| 5 | Well , what the government has said today is that they 're giving us some money to help us to take it and boost it a bit further and we 're very pleased to see that . |
| 6 | They 're giving us twenty five quid to record these . |
| 7 | ‘ You 're making us redundant . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ I presume , ’ chirped up a voice from the back Coun Eric White , actually ‘ that you 're telling us all this from memory . ’ |
| 9 | This is the really menacing thing because in their obsession with proving themselves , they are pulling us all towards destruction . |
| 10 | The Germans who have been facing us all these weeks have pulled out and are now dug in in a thickly wooded area about three-hundred yards from No. 4 Commando . |
| 11 | However , it would seem that Greg Martin , your mother 's companion when the yacht was lost , has been fooling us these past twenty years . |
| 12 | People are joining us all the time , so I 'm very briefly er just in a word or two , going to go over the subjects , and then if you want to give me a ring , please do so . |
| 13 | I would hope that in a competitive situation i it is happening now un under a non-competitive situation , er the clients are giving us written remits erm and I think we 'll be going further down the path . |
| 14 | And tried to get some settlement , but I do n't believe it are giving us any settlement cos he was n't prepared to do anything like that . |
| 15 | ‘ I 'm takin' us all out to the Cill Dara and we 'll have a fine dinner and a few drinks . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ If you were mad you 'd be calling us all mad . |
| 17 | ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’ |
| 18 | I reckon those people 'll be giving us most of their business . |
| 19 | ‘ There are n't any , look , I mean , honestly … you 'd be doing us such a — you see , the Duchess of York 's got your name in her speech and we do n't want to … |
| 20 | Will you be joining us next summer ? |
| 21 | ‘ I 'm giving us each a chance , ’ he said coldly , getting up . |
| 22 | Christopher Robson ( countertenor ) has recently been electrifying audiences with his performances of Arsamenes in Xerxes at the English National Opera , and when he opens his mouth on this recording he may as well be plugging us all into the mains . |
| 23 | These people were supposed to be making us fit and instead they were doing irreparable damage to my heart and lungs . |
| 24 | And Jill Goolden will be telling us all about wines from Alsace . |
| 25 | ‘ Youse can be at the codding , when youse like , ’ he mumbled thickly , ‘ but if this auld one in here — ’ he tapped the coffin with his glass — ‘ if this fella wants to , I tell ye , he 'll be sittin' up as bright as ye like and be givin' us all the ‘ Lark ’ , just as he was doin' that night when — ‘ |
| 26 | " You are making us all sick , " he said . |
| 27 | Modern dietary trends are making us healthier in many respects and yet , as we move away from calcium-rich foods like milk , cream and cheese , a valuable source of calcium is being lost . |
| 28 | Marky Ray , Ministry 's guitar tech and Lee , their sound guy , are introducing us onstage . |
| 29 | So whereas the policy committee were allowing us three point five million grant maximum , on top of the er base budget , now course that 's reduced because with cash limited to the total on to the base plus , so getting a lot less than with the group so they might say increase to about two and a half million rather than the figure we had earlier . |
| 30 | World events were worrying us more and more and some of us were fearful for the safety of family and friends . |