Example sentences of "and it [verb] us " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There is still a bus and it takes us to that hotel on the port . |
| 2 | The embarrassing thing is that we 're all very right people so the place is a mess , er , and it takes us a quarter of a day before we realise that we 've been burgled , because things are actually slightly neater than when we left the previous day . |
| 3 | Certainty eluded them , and it eludes us still . |
| 4 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 5 | And it made us run all the way here just so 's we can hurry up and wait . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ After we defeated defending champions Castlerock in the semi-finals , he thumped a table with his two All-Ireland Senior Cup medals before the final saying … ‘ this is what it is all about ’ … and it got us going again against Warrenpoint . ’ |
| 7 | It remains the key to our understanding of the natural world and it enables us to recognise that life has a long and continuous history during which organisms , both plant and animal , have changed , generation by generation , as they colonised all parts of the world . |
| 8 | As Louise Hay points out , we do this all the time — and it gets us nowhere . |
| 9 | It 's very friendly And it followed us into the lane several times and then we 'd chase it back |
| 10 | There was a special unit set up here , Animal Rights National Index , but these idiots had tight security , a good cut-off cell system , and it took us a hell of a long time to open the can . |
| 11 | We was there till six o'clock in the afternoon and it took us from the er ten o'clock in the morning , say about ten when we got there , it took us from ten till six to fire five rounds of ammunition because there was that many there and you had to wait your turn . |
| 12 | While they went into the firing blackboards to fire your rounds and you , all you was allowed to fire was five five and then you had to wait , take your turn course everybody had got to go in , they 'd got to check them as everybody got had fired their five there were n't one left up the spout like there was before , course it took time see , and it took us a day , I would say a day , to fire five rounds of ammunition . |
| 13 | Designing experiments to check these possibilities is n't easy , and it took us several years , through the early 1970s , to try to eliminate one after the other . |
| 14 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 15 | And it took us a long long time to try and get back where we were . |
| 16 | for an insulation company and we were on a Government funding and money ran out and it took us up to Christmas really and after Christmas we were out of work for four months |
| 17 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |
| 18 | And it tells us whether the curves . |
| 19 | she did n't say well er my husband brought me here because it was a decision that she had parted , it was a choice she had made as well and so she , she excepts her responsibility , she excepts her blame and she goes to return so there was , there was this sense of confession and , and confession can be costly when we 've got to admit that I was wrong , I did wrong , I was mistaken , I went the wrong way that could be a costly mistake and , and , and er costly experience for us to go through , but surely the , the true sign of repent is that we do acknowledge our sin , we acknowledge our failure , that we acknowledge what it means to god , we ca n't shift that blame onto somebody else then also consider not just the cost that Naomi had to pay in going back , but also there was a cost for Auper and for Ruth as well as Moabias there would be little joy for them in Israel , they were foreigners , they were strangers , there would n't be much hope for happiness for them , there would be very little likeliness for them ever getting married in or remarrying er in , in Israel , they would n't be able to worship there own god , they 'd be taken from one culture to another , there 'd be taken from one language to another , what was it gon na be like for them , alright , perhaps whilst they were living with Naomi perhaps she could pull a few strings for them , but what happens when she goes and they are left by themselves and yet it would appear that with Naomi making her decision to return that they too these two daughters in law they decided to go to Bethlehem with her and it tells us that they set out together but perhaps they had n't thought it really through because their not totally committed to us and as they come towards the frontier and their gon na pass into in , back into Judah with their few miserable possessions that they 've gathered together , Naomi again considers the consequences facing these two young women , Auper and Ruth , they continued with her , as she pleads with them to go back home , Judah is no place for a foreigner , Judah is no place for somebody to come unless they are part of gods people , and I 'm reminded of again of what it tells me in , in the book of acts , that in the early church , that people were actually frightened , frightened to join with the disciples , they were frightened to join the church , there was no room for , for stragglers , there was no room for hangers on , there was no room for those who went just because they thought it was gon na be the next , the in thing to do , but folk were actually frightened of joining because they knew they had to put their lives right , they knew they had to live holy lives , they knew that god had to be lord and master in their lives and unless they were willing to do that and be committed to him they were actually frightened of joining and one of the great weaknesses of the church today is that it becomes and it can becoming our thinking and nothing more than just something we join , something we belong to , something we go along to er as like a club , like an association , but that 's not the picture we see it in the New Testament , it is a very exclusive body , it is a very exclusive grouping , a grouping of those who have committed themselves to Jesus Christ and that 's why not every body is a member of the local church , not every body who goes to church on a Sunday is a member of a church to Jesus Christ now they know if they are , but other people may not know , they know and the lord knows , I know if I belong to him and he knows if I belong to him other people may not , I can put on the act , I can look as though I 'm playing the part , I can go through the routine , I can , I can , I can fool every body , but he knows and I know , and he knows and you know and so Jesus said not every body who says lord , lord on that day will I acknowledge and recognize and so for Ruth and Nao er yes Ruth and Auper it was gon na be different of course for them as foreigners in Judah especially when Naomi goes and she pleads with them go back home , Judah is not place for Moabias , she knew what it had been like to be a foreigner , she knew what it had been like to be an alien land in an alien culture in a different religion with a different language she had known the bitterness of it all , she pleads with them go back home she prayers for them the lord bless you , the lord you know be gracious to you and so on , but they refused and again Naomi puts it to them , to please go back and Auper reconsiders and she takes the counsel and advice of her mother in law but no so Ruth and Naomi turns and says look your sister in law 's gone back , she 's gone home , you go as well , you ca n't do it , its a too greater price for you to pay , its a choice you must n't make , a decision you must n't make , your gon na have poverty , your gon na have loneliness , your gon na have hardship . |
| 20 | And it allows us to make out a vision of our own lives and , more importantly , the whole life , the world 's life . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ There is less wear and tear on top management and it allows us to arrange meetings more quickly which might not take place otherwise , ’ says Royal Bank spokesman Alwyn James , speaking in Technicolor from his studio in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Keith hits and kicks any child playing with a toy he wants ’ is an objective description of the problem and it allows us to decide whether it should take priority over some other problem behaviour . |
| 23 | We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday . |
| 24 | on long play and it lasts us eight hours . |
| 25 | Psychoanalysis has made unfamiliar with the intimate connection between the father-complex and belief in God ; it has shown us that a personal God is psychologically nothing other than an exalted father , and it brings us evidence every day of how young people lose their religious beliefs as soon as their father 's authority breaks down . |
| 26 | And it brings us back to the Mnarja , at the Buskett Gardens . |
| 27 | For Constanza it created a sort of void — no real responsibility ; and it tied us all together in new ways . |
| 28 | And it assures us than even with minimal faith , God 's purposes will be accomplished beyond all that we can believe . |
| 29 | Because the mistakes have to be rectified and it puts us under even more pressure because you 've got even less time . |
| 30 | Sometimes it has been a case of seeing something done really well and it inspires us to do it even better . |