Example sentences of "us [adj] [noun] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes , middle class women have done a lot for the ‘ Women 's Movement ’ but does she really think that us working class women have been sitting on our arses doing nothing all this time . |
| 2 | Although the band had chosen where they wanted to record the album — Compass Point in Nassau , Bahamas — they had no one to record with us usual collaborators Paul Oakenfold and Steve Osborne , producers behind the laid-back groove of ‘ Pills'N'Thrills And Bellyaches ’ , were tied up with commitments to their Perfecto label . |
| 3 | Join us each Friday lunchtime in the Square Cat Bistro for a mouthwatering menu of swinging summer jazz , accompanied by good food and drink . |
| 4 | ‘ If concessions are n't made for those who live in the desert , the results would be economically disastrous ’ , says US Representative Jerry Lewis ( Republican , California ) , who represents most of the rural Mojave . |
| 5 | Mrs Thatcher and Mr Lawson tell us that government policy is the last of these : Britain will become a full member of the EMS when France and Italy abolish exchange controls and when our inflation rate is similar to that of other EMS members . |
| 6 | Historical and sociological studies of the curriculum have shown us that school subjects are not simply rationally selected for explicit educational aims but are reflections of larger social and political forces . |
| 7 | One reviewer told us that case reports prove nothing . |
| 8 | Just a few months ago , Opposition Members were telling us that trust hospitals would fail and that they should be judged by the simple test of whether they do more or less work on NHS patients . |
| 9 | For Zen teaches us that love breeds fear , and fear breeds hatred , and hatred breeds violence , in a neve-rending , vicious circle . |
| 10 | John Boys in his Agriculture of the County of Kent 1794 , tells us that hop poles are the chief article which make woods valuable in this part of the country , there being not only local demand but the poles are carried as far as Maidstone and beyond , the planters preferring the poles grown on the hills to those of quicker growth . |
| 11 | New details from the South Down Machine Knitting Club inform us that afternoon meetings will be held on the second Monday in the month between 2 pm and 4 pm . |
| 12 | Within a week , we received a letter back from the minister informing us that Bracken House had been listed grade II* . |
| 13 | Jimmy Dale Gilmore is wild and wiggly , Nanci Griffith is captured in her old folksy form and Percy Sledge sings a Hank Williams tune — just to remind us that country music is n't simply a WASP-y preserve . |
| 14 | David told us that swan pattern of movement was currently being monitored in the north-east , so he was trying to read the leg bands through his glass . |
| 15 | Plus the young Catriona who designs and makes all her own clothes ( you 're kidding ! ) and informs us that leather trousers have been around for ‘ two or three years now ’ . |
| 16 | The answer might seem to be that experience tells us that nation states are a key fact of the current world and that they plainly do often behave in a self-interested way . |
| 17 | Hip-hop tells us that city life is impoverished , that real violence , as opposed to the symbolic stare-downs , is horrific . |
| 18 | If we believed in omens or portents , then I think we should have taken notice of some of the things someone or something was trying to tell us that June day . |
| 19 | When we arrived in Navarradonda where the body was taken , the local police assured us that ground searches had been conducted with dogs the day after Jeremy 's disappearance . |
| 20 | Give us that cracker thing I put this , where 's this , where your dad put the screws ? |
| 21 | It should not perhaps surprise us that trade unions appear to have made less bargaining headway on the issues of job design than on the question of equipment design . |
| 22 | They are part of a joint tour with Sisters Unlimited , the first in a series designed to bring us European folk music . |
| 23 | Please give us some expert assistance . |
| 24 | Can you get us some toilet rolls I put the last one in the bathroom or summit . |
| 25 | I remember Mrs Seaton gave us some mince pies and we ate them hot , sitting on the floor in front of the tree — just the two of us . |
| 26 | What 's wrong with a bit of shit stirring it is certain to get us some inch space ? |
| 27 | It 'll just give us some breathing space . |
| 28 | Tony was supposed to have been singing in a Black Sabbath ‘ reunion ’ in the States , which did n't happen for him in the end , but that gave us some breathing space . |
| 29 | There have been tired legs recently but this win gives us some breathing space . ’ |
| 30 | Either Germany should revalue upwards to give the rest of us some breathing room or Britain , France and Italy should combine in a joint downward realignment . |