Example sentences of "in [v-ing] us [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | They try to keep everyone happy , but somehow succeed in annoying us all . |
2 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
3 | Alan got a message for you all the stewards and secretaries within Pilkingtons and also the A E U , M S F and the T & G thanks very much for the initiative you 've in getting us all together and the initiative you 've took in getting us part of the European set-up company Pilkingtons , at this present time are very negative . |
4 | PC Pick said : ‘ The Freeman Hospital have been exceptionally good in giving us two heart valves to take over . ’ |
5 | It is a prayer , but I thank the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments for his courtesy in giving us that information , which I am sure will be much appreciated by the House . |
6 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
7 | But in giving us this faith , he does n't go with a , a picking order into the warehouse of heaven , a and look there up all the great pallets and boxes of faith , or boxes of love , or boxes and cartons of peace , and say right , there 's one , I 'll give that to you . |
8 | When the time came to close the office , he took great pleasure in posting us all as far away from our homes as he possibly could . |
9 | Furthermore , this is probably one of those cases where social psychoanalysis can succeed in telling us more about this primitive superego-structure than can the clinical analysis of modern individuals unaided by cultural insights . |