Example sentences of "they [vb base] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities . |
| 2 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 3 | Because they all hate us , they hate us for being different , for not being them , for their own not being like us . |
| 4 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 5 | They want us to be ourselves and they themselves and to meet as friends … only after some quiet times with a dolphin do we enjoy letting it be in charge of the encounter , and see what it may decide to do next with us . ' |
| 6 | ‘ That 's what they want us to be . |
| 7 | it 's all going ahead they want us in as soon as possible that 's how we got such a good |
| 8 | They expect us as a matter of course to advise them if they should be taking advantage of their inheritance and capital gains tax exemptions and to ensure that the share capital structure of their companies is maintained to ensure they are not in control for any tax-related purpose , but can still ensure young Harry is kept in his place . |
| 9 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |
| 10 | On the other hand , they supply us with essential fatty acids , often known as vitamin F , which are the starting materials for prostaglandin synthesis . |
| 11 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 12 | They persecute us , they crowd us out , they send us to Coventry , they sneer at us , they yawn at us , they blindfold themselves and stuff up their ears . |
| 13 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 14 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 15 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 16 | There 's a limit to what can be done on those little caravan stoves they provide us with . ’ |
| 17 | I I I do n't want to go down the road to the same extent that they 've done , when they put us into debt by fifty er fifty billion o o o o o o o just on on on one day , but I 'm sure that there is a a strong case to look |
| 18 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 19 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 20 | ‘ They put us under tremendous pressure . |
| 21 | I need a visa and have failed to obtain one , Rosita likewise , and so they put us behind bars like prisoners . |
| 22 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 23 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 24 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 25 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 26 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 27 | In a very real way they put us in touch with people in the past , especially ordinary people . |
| 28 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 29 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 30 | And they accept us for what we are and we 've got a good erm relationship with the the people w who are left in er the flat complex . |