Example sentences of "us [adv] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Should we just enjoy the things that touch us in a painting or should it spur us on to learn more ? |
| 2 | For the moment let us merely have some abbreviations . |
| 3 | Apparently , most of us only remember two or three details . |
| 4 | None of us naturally has these qualities , since we are descendants of flawed parenting , in one degree or another . |
| 5 | In less dramatic contexts many of us already run such risks . |
| 6 | ‘ Most of us just hope this will be over as quickly as possible and that the Americans go home , ’ a diplomat said . |
| 7 | Tile lagoonal facies has been disputed and the estuarine facies is complicated in various ways and confuses the issue , so let us just consider three of these facies : the offshore , the deltaic and the fluviatile . |
| 8 | I put it in inverted commas , because many of us just do different kinds of non-waged work at the weekends , or work at providing leisure facilities . |
| 9 | We offered the Government time , saying , ’ Let us not waste each other 's time : let us abolish the poll tax now , and get rid of it by April 1992 . ’ |
| 10 | This will help us not to confuse physical pleasure with true happiness or the spiritual reality of joy . |
| 11 | ‘ Let us not forget dear Marissa … ! ’ |
| 12 | Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy . |
| 13 | Let us not forget young Imre varadi . |
| 14 | Exactly , and let us not forget this either . |
| 15 | Let us not shatter that illusion for a week or so . |
| 16 | ‘ The temptation is to give them everything , ’ says Janka Stuttard , the Russian speaker who co-ordinated the visit , ‘ but their parents asked us not to do that because it makes it difficult for them to settle back home . |
| 17 | ‘ You 've been trying to get us not to hush this case up . ’ |
| 18 | But come , let us not discuss these matters here . ’ |
| 19 | And he strongly recommended us not to accept this man . |
| 20 | Santerre hastened to open it but told us not to bring any torches in . |
| 21 | " We saw some prisoners being beaten , " explained Joseph , turning to Paul Devraux , " but he told us not to feel sorry for them . |
| 22 | Let us not have pious words about timetabling Bills every time that there is a debate on a guillotine motion , only to find that nothing happens . |
| 23 | An attendant warned us not to deface public property . |
| 24 | Erm I ca n't honestly see us ever getting that . |
| 25 | For many of us the practice was sternly discouraged in our childhood and , without doubt , many of us still feel embarrassed or ashamed by our own " indulgence " . |
| 26 | But most of us still feel hard-pressed to keep up with those changes that have already taken place . |
| 27 | There 's nothing to stop us still asking nice little earner as they say . |
| 28 | So Steve marches us off to find decent accommodation . |
| 29 | Although it was very late , Otto whisked us off to dine that night at a restaurant some way along the coast . |
| 30 | The task was to break up the old bureaucratic machine and construct a new one , but one which would ‘ enable us gradually to reduce all officialdom to naught ’ ( p. 42 ) . |