Example sentences of "us [prep] one [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Carol is not , of course , a ‘ typical ’ child , nor is Dorothy a ‘ typical ’ mother , but the book has much to tell us about one child 's perception of books and their contents . |
| 2 | Reform was ‘ a flash of lightning illuminating us for one moment only , to leave us in greater darkness ’ . |
| 3 | When children nowadays are becoming more responsible to our society , and they see us as one world we have a responsibility to protect ourselves and our world , and that includes the animals in it . |
| 4 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 5 | But Bret did let us into one secret . |
| 6 | The programmatic development of the Copernican theory over more than a century has already provided us with one example . |
| 7 | Our billetors were obliged , wherever possible , to provide us with one bath per week ; where this was not possible , facilities were available at B.P. , but this interfered with transport provisions , and sometimes a request for private transport was necessary , though not readily granted , and arrangements for this were in the hands of a Mrs Wildboar-Smith . |
| 8 | It will increase God s purpose is to change us by his Spirit within us ( the word ‘ change ’ is used in the Gospels to denote Jesus ' transfiguration ! ) ; and to change us from one degree of glory to another . |
| 9 | Well , the work of the Spirit in the believer is supremely to transform us from one degree of glory to another : that is to say , to make us more and more like Christ . |
| 10 | For the rest , the older generation and the perennially mathematically innocent , it will be best to start by thinking of a vector as something like an arrow directing us from one point to another . |
| 11 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 12 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 13 | Any creature that could eat hundreds of rugby balls could swallow us in one go . ’ |
| 14 | A little while ago , we heard about something called AIDS , and it 's something that 's terrified most of us in one way or another . |
| 15 | Today we have over one million business accounts , from sole traders to the largest corporations , with the great majority of them receiving financial help from us in one form or another — from a simple overdraft to extremely complex arrangements . |
| 16 | Miss is just saying to me that a quick review of her chart , er could indicate that we have n't got any clear er how shall I say , clear indication , using the same word twice , that would point us to one sector only . |
| 17 | Our admission charge rations us to one programme . |
| 18 | Looking at the long sweep of the historical past , Temple had seen that ‘ Historical analogies lead us to one conclusion only ’ — that subject races invariably at some point regain their liberty . |
| 19 | This is an absolute treasure house for any editor or writer unsure of a common foreign phrase , an abbreviation , or the spelling of a tricky name — which means all of us at one time or another . |
| 20 | The fact is that , in an age when players were never encouraged or expected to be adaptable , the only positions that Billy did not fill for us at one time or another were those of goalkeeper , centre-forward and centre-half . |
| 21 | Confident youth may never imagine a world like this in a million Sundays , but these pictures tell it like it is for by far the majority of us at one time or other ; and I defy anyone to say that it could not be them — be they so lucky as still to be climbing when approaching 80 . |
| 22 | The main need , however , is to bring the two sides somehow together , since all of us at one time or another need help from both of them . |
| 23 | I mean we did a lot of things that other people probably did n't do , I always remember next door to us at one time the curate of the St Mary 's church , er , who is er , he is now Bishop of mm , gosh , he 's a up in Nottingham way , Bishop of something or other , we met him at a , at a do not so very long ago and he 's just the same , he 's marvellous and he was the curate and they were as poor as church mice and er in relation to them we were really well off you know , and er they had hardly any fires or anything and we gave them an electric fire to heat their place up and er when we met him , it was last February at a , a do of one of the research engineers from where I was work working the last job I had and er , he said I 've still got the electric fire |
| 24 | But we could n't eat all the curry it was very , both of us at one time , we could have scoffed the lot ! |
| 25 | Remember that cup of tea cos the water gave out on us at one stage ! |
| 26 | I went to the making sure they move us around one square . |