Example sentences of "as [noun prp] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | I intend to concentrate on provision for the 18 per cent unstatemented pupils who remain in mainstream schools but who , as Warnock reminded us , have special needs . |
| 2 | By June 1944 , those statistics had improved greatly , but as Dan tells us , ‘ Statistics proved you were dead after 25 missions in those days . |
| 3 | The students were , as Kelly tells us , becoming ‘ a medium of public opinion in their own right ’ ( Kelly 1987 : 140 ) . |
| 4 | This ‘ democratization ’ is , as Bernard reminds us , a relatively new trend of the last hundred or two hundred years , and one which contrasts with an earlier situation where marriage was ‘ … a kind of privilege , a prerogative , a gift bestowed by the community ’ ( Bernard , 1976 , p. 123 ) . |
| 5 | Even household pets , as MacIver reminded us , can be accorded similar if less formal privileges . |
| 6 | Etymologically , as Fromm reminds us ( 1973 : 189 ) , the English word is based on two Latin words , ad and gradior , with the combined sense of ‘ movement towards ’ . |
| 7 | So the erm but as , but as Katherine reminds us , I mean if , if that 's the kind of life our emotional parameters are my , my guess is that that , is that that 's probably the truth , certainly a persuasive argument . |
| 8 | You must not take risks and the idea is to hit the opposing tackler and keep the momentum going through second phase , which is not pretty to watch — and not always effective if the other team can tackle , as England showed us recently at Murrayfield . |
| 9 | As Weill reminds us : ‘ Good light music is appreciated as being more valuable than bad serious music . ’ |
| 10 | As Koss reminds us , |
| 11 | In the eighteenth century it was the practice , as Misson reminds us , to put bran and sawdust at the bottom of the coffin to a depth of about four inches , and extra wood shavings at the head end . |
| 12 | It is no coincidence that , as Barthes reminds us , rhetoric was born of a property dispute ( 1970a:90 ) . |
| 13 | As Tacitus informs us , all the tribes occupying that territory on the Roman side of the Rivers Trent and Avon , which was effectively the new province , were disarmed . |
| 14 | This is quite patriotic of the poet — Owen then goes on to say that it is quite ironic how the sun woke up the world , started life yet it can not wake up this lifeless man , who is still warmblooded and full-nerved as Owen tell us here : |
| 15 | I stammered out a fairly acceptable reason for declining their invitation to make a personal appearance at the songs premiere , and very shortly Mala and I were back on our ship as Posi took us off-planet , with much relief all round . |
| 16 | When she pronounced us clean , I lounged and smiled some more , thought peacefully about the Frazillian fee , watched peacefully as Posi took us into Firstlight . |
| 17 | I howled with the pain , howled again when something like a mountain fell crushingly on me as Posi hurled us straight back up to Highlight . |
| 18 | Still , as Sidcombe stuffed us twice this season they can go to hell . |
| 19 | Be imitators of God , therefore , as dearly loved children , and live a life of love , just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God ( Eph. 4:3–5:2 ) . |
| 20 | But as Lazaris reminds us , money ( like nature ) is just a set of vibrations , an illusion that we create — and we can have as much as we like of an illusion ! |
| 21 | As God made us for himself , how are we relating to him ? |
| 22 | As we give up concentrating on our selves , our lives begin to reflect more clearly what it means to be human , as God intended us to be . |
| 23 | God 's people are to be practical in their love , because we realise that we were once restrained and confined , unable to live as God intended us to live . |
| 24 | After Henry Hanna 's hall , the first colleges to be established , as Peck tells us , were general schools open to all , such as Brazenose College by St. Paul 's Gate . |
| 25 | Inside the hall — a catering palace of strict and impeccable kosher credentials , as Goldie reassures us , lest we fret — the two sexes part into separate rivers . |
| 26 | ( It is also relevant to Athenian fears that , as Livy tells us under the year 431 , Carthage now encroached in Sicily for the first time , iv.29.8 with R. M. Ogilvie ( 1965 ) Commentary on Livy i-v , Oxford . ) |
| 27 | As Christine takes us on a final tour of the house she and Doc D share in a village ten miles out of Norwich , I venture the question that must be on every SHE reader 's lips . |
| 28 | These are the areas where the difficulties of the LM 's lie and , as Hahnemann tells us in §278 , theorizing is not enough to tell us what the ideal degree of smallness of the dose is to effect a gentle cure , and that ‘ Only pure experiment , the meticulous observation of the sensitivity of each patient , and sound experience can determine this in each individual case . ’ |
| 29 | Only , as Lewis tells us in Surprised by Joy , ‘ when we set out I did not believe that Jesus Christ is the Son of God , and when we reached the zoo I did . ’ |
| 30 | As Lewis tells us in the preface to the published version of this book , his initial reaction was to wish for anonymity , ‘ since if I were to say what I really thought about pain , I should be forced to make statements of such apparent fortitude that they would become ridiculous if anyone knew who made them , . |