Example sentences of "us [prep] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Could you tell us about swimming in , in the canals Mr , what , what you used to do ? |
| 2 | And he , he used to tell us about his travels around America , you know and he , he told us about working in Baltimore in the forty sixth street or something , in a forge , they called them forges out there . |
| 3 | Can you possibly arrange for a BVU copy to be made for us for posting by Thursday this week ? |
| 4 | Then they wo n't be cross with us for interfering in their primitive rituals . ’ |
| 5 | Sir Alf Ramsey included David as substitute in his England Under 23 side against Wales at Swansea on l November 1967 , but Palace fans of the period will contend that David was worthy of further honours He eventually left us for orient in August 1973 ; his departure was regretted by the fans , who had always held this likeable young man in immense respect and affection . |
| 6 | I mean , what help has the British Government given us for preparing for 1992 ? |
| 7 | Hugh chides us for selling at what he regards as low prices , but he forgets that our hobby not our source of income ; it is a way of relaxing during evenings and weekends when the serious business of earning a living is over . |
| 8 | ‘ As far as I was concerned he was just a big fella who used to come out of the shop and bellow at us for playing against the wall . |
| 9 | So it was an especially good performance for us after losing at Maine Road last week . |
| 10 | ‘ People who have called have told us of going into deep trances . ’ |
| 11 | We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England . |
| 12 | A big-boned , red-haired Irish woman tears through the crowd , stands squarely in front of us despite pushing from all sides and glares down upon us , her gaze steady , her freckles flushed . |
| 13 | ‘ None of us like talking about that period very much , ’ he replied . |
| 14 | The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile . |
| 15 | Efforts to do so are misplaced and can positively mislead us into believing in the efficacy of the internal organization of the structure of the company as a means of legitimating corporate managerial power . |
| 16 | If you find that the results are likely to be disastrous , and that the principles underlying it , which we detect not only from the official utterances of members of the Government but also from the more indiscreet explanations of so-called supporters of the government are pernicious and that the whole matter is one that has never been duly referred to the people of this country , then I venture to say that your Lordships have a clear duty before you — not to decree the final extinction of the Bill — because that is not what we propose , but to insist that before it becomes law an authoritative expression of the opinion of the electors of the United Kingdom shall have reached us with regard to it . |
| 17 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 18 | The only horrible memory of the nineteen fifties that even today makes me wince was that teaspoonful of cod liver oil followed by the concentrated orange juice that was spooned on us before leaving for the school in the morning and off you went with your flask of tea and your sandwiches in your school bag . |
| 19 | Even sad wankers like you , ’ he informs us before launching into ‘ Karaoke Queen ’ and posing his way through the three-minute Buzzcock guitar pile-ups and singalongs of ‘ Indeed You Aaaagh ’ , and ‘ I 'm In Luff ’ ( its not really how you spell the song titles , it 's the way he tells ‘ em ) . |
| 20 | When we worry too much about the way we are playing it inhibits us from listening to all the elements of the music . |
| 21 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |
| 22 | Does the Secretary of State believe that the action of the board of Vickers Shipbuilding and Engineering Ltd. in disqualifying us from competing for this work is fair to Cammell Laird ? |
| 23 | First , of course , you have to know what you are : that there is another life , another set of attitudes , other responses out there in the world , which prevent most of us from aspiring to better things . |
| 24 | So that 's what privatization is about and how do we stop the privatization how do we really represent the members by attacking the legislation that prevents us from acting in a spontaneous manner , which will assist our members in their hour of need . |
| 25 | I realised then how our own personal embarrassment and refusal to face up to our own mortality prevents us from behaving to others in a natural and human way . |
| 26 | providing tension to the girders ( bones ) and cables ( tendons ) that keep us from crumpling to the ground at any instant . |
| 27 | A spokesman from the Department said : ‘ There is nothing stopping us from asking for a total ban . |
| 28 | Summing up , we are concerned that the recession continued to prevent us from contributing to the funds of the RIBA at the same levels as in 1989 and 1990 and are far from complacent about this situation . |
| 29 | It does n't prohibit us from talking about them . |
| 30 | Two young , fit squaddies desperately need the help of any females from 16 to 55 to save us from this dull and boring existence- Please , please keep us from talking to the penguins any longer — write now ! |