Example sentences of "us [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They keep telling us about this poll tax , they 've got to cut the staff and then they decide that they 're going to give this man this money . |
| 2 | Pat was having an affair — and in a crowded restaurant , he asked her at the top of the sentorian Williams voice : ‘ Well tell us about this man you 're having the affair with then . ’ |
| 3 | He messed us about this weekend did n't he ? |
| 4 | In my knowledge he has never spoken to us about this business . |
| 5 | Now if the fox enters a hole but the hole that he enters is the head so what does that tell us about this fox ? |
| 6 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 7 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
| 8 | I 'm getting us off this planet as fast as I can . ’ |
| 9 | In fairness to the mother he should have directed that she be given notice of the foster mother 's application ; had he done so he would have learned — as we have learned from the mother 's statement which clearly should be admitted in evidence before us for this purpose at least — that if the matters to which she spoke were correct ( viz. the foster mother 's preventing her having access to and contact with the children , and allegations which she says the children made to her of their physical and emotional abuse by the foster mother and other members of her ‘ family ’ ) , then the mother 's wishes and feelings were not lightly to be ignored . |
| 10 | ‘ Can we tek it then that thoo 'll be leaving us for this land of milk and honey ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ Do we ask Sir John to restrain the soldiers — which he can not do — or do we bind him not to pursue or hound us for this action ? |
| 12 | That she , who has always denied any further consequences of their evil — ‘ A little water clears us of this deed : /How easy is it then ! ’ |
| 13 | Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’ |
| 14 | Our Lord 's ministry , for instance , provides examples to guard us against this danger . |
| 15 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 16 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 17 | So what can he do — having got us into this mess — for the good of OUR people ? |
| 18 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 19 | I did n't get us into this mess — ’ She broke off with a guilty look over her shoulder . |
| 20 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |
| 21 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 22 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 23 | Why does the Lord bring us into this land , to fall by the sword ? ’ |
| 24 | ‘ The people who seem to be giving us all the orders now are the very people who , um , got us into this trouble in the first place ! ’ |
| 25 | In the 80s , the banks , with poor management , had conspired with government to get us into this situation . |
| 26 | A couple of years of university so familiarises us with this idea that literature dissolves entirely into the drudgery of reading and writing crit . |
| 27 | I am grateful , as is the House , to my hon. Friend the Member for Croydon , North-West ( Mr. Malins ) for providing us with this opportunity to consider education for adults in Croydon . |
| 28 | Please collect your sponsor money and send it back to us WITH THIS SPONSOR FORM , to Greenpeace , Whale Walks Department . |
| 29 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 30 | If we were naughty or disobedient the nursemaid would threaten us with this man who , she said , hid at night in the high bushes by the gate , and would know what we had done and come and get us . |