Example sentences of "us [prep] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The spacecraft results also confirm that ground-based observations can indirectly tell us about fluctuations in the solar constant . |
| 2 | And they , they asked us about mines in the area and we said mines |
| 3 | Their role as the principal form of money for over two millennia means they can tell us about economies for which we have little or no written evidence , and the fact that they were mass-produced and have survived in such large numbers offers the opportunity to approach the economic history of some societies in a quantitative way . |
| 4 | At best they can tell us about aspects of the general biochemical and hormonal ‘ state ’ of the brain necessary for learning and memory formation to occur , the tuning and volume mechanisms , but not about the memory processes , the message on the tape itself . |
| 5 | Because only a small handful of events can ever be experienced by individuals at first hand , we inevitably rely on the mass media to inform us about events beyond our immediate grasp . |
| 6 | ‘ What Pamella Tells Us About Men of Power , ’ ran the headline . |
| 7 | Francis came to tell us about arrangements for the funeral and he brought with him one of my father 's pictures which had been taken to the shop for framing . |
| 8 | Skin eruptions are common to many of us during times of stress and in women during the pre-menstrual phase . |
| 9 | His one-man show takes us through states of mind and body . |
| 10 | It is through suffering that we learn obedience and trust , and God , in his wisdom , will lead us through stages of growth that feel like anything but growth to bring us to Christ-likeness . |
| 11 | They lead to habits of attention that ‘ … hurry us through encounters with works … eclipse the unique features of lived occasions and … reduce experience to the reaction of a limited number of stereotyped patterns ’ ( Jenkins , 1958 , p. 225 ) . |
| 12 | According to Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , the powerful speaker of the Iranian parliament , ‘ The Americans started contacting us through scores of channels begging us to help them in the Lebanon ; through Japan , our neighbouring countries like Pakistan , our embassies , the United Nations and numerous arms brokers . ’ |
| 13 | Gas Catering Equipment Programme — ask us for details of our combined qualification . |
| 14 | Streatham Hill Theatre ( now a bingo hall ) was on the pre-West End circuit , and we had chorus girls staying with us for weeks at a time . |
| 15 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
| 16 | They 'd been known to us for years as a couple of minor police informers , dabblers in espionage who never come up with anything much . ’ |
| 17 | They wanted to sell us as slaves in the markets there . |
| 18 | The same may be true of the Prinias horsemen , but the relief there is rather low , and an alternative is that they turn their eyes on us as guardians of the house : the ‘ terror-mask ’ , a concept we shall meet again . |
| 19 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 20 | Well it 's impossible at the moment , with the media coverage and the erm information about war and the situation in the Gulf , not to touch children , however careful the adults around them may be , and it 's very important for us as adults to not be so caught up , in our excitement perhaps even , about what 's going on and all the razzmatazz that may be attached to the sort of glory of whose ever side they may be on that we forget the extent to which children are very much affected by how they see the adults around them respond to what 's going on . |
| 21 | up to us as examples of the kind of living faith which overcomes the pressing difficulties of inner conflict of these kinds . |
| 22 | He does n't see us as a part of a crowd , he does n't see us as a number on a computer , he does n't see us as numbers on a bank account , or in some other organizational er er er computer set up or whatever it is , he does n't just see us as that he sees us as individuals . |
| 23 | He does n't consider us as rivals in the large-animal field . ’ |
| 24 | The struggle begins when they see many of the things that seem routine to the rest of us as ways of devaluing them . |
| 25 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 26 | Society 's values are passed on to us as children via our families . |
| 27 | Chronology of building forms can be established only approximately , and archaeology can not tell us of variations in the prosperity of a community from one year to the next . |
| 28 | But the presence within us of pockets of tender vulnerability is a normal part of humanness . |
| 29 | For The Sun told us of members of Britain 's Asian community being brought together to win the votes of that community . |
| 30 | So the changes in the spectral lines tell us of changes in the Sun 's temperature , which in turn reveal changes in the solar luminosity . |