Example sentences of "us [art] [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Below us the lights of the City did what they were good at , they just sat there and twinkled . |
| 2 | Donald , alas , had been dead for thirty years when Hilary Spurling published her admirable biography Ivy when Young and gave us the answers to our questions . |
| 3 | Thousands of years of philosophy can not give us the answers to these questions . |
| 4 | To conclude , the play does give us the answers to the questions we demand from Hamlet , we understand the delay 's he makes in killing Claudius due to the nature of his thoughts , he is concerned with the future of his soul and this seems to me the central issue in Shakespeare 's Hamlet . |
| 5 | Will he now give us the figures for the whole period since 1979 , when the Government came to office ? |
| 6 | He told us the rules of the game , just as I 've described them to you . |
| 7 | Notice , though , that while flow figures are useful in telling us the directions in which companies channel the funds they received , they do not tell us how active intermediaries are in any particular market . |
| 8 | The chef , Master Worker Chang , is a caricature of a Chinese chef , very large and fat , who is very solicitous for our welfare , and comes in and explains to us the dishes in a sort of Chinese version of Hyman Kaplan 's English . |
| 9 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
| 10 | The stream-of-consciousness novel only ‘ shows ’ us the operations of the mind by another kind of telling than straightforward authorial report . |
| 11 | I do not propose that we enter new markets at this stage , but rather that we seek strategic alliances with practices that offer professional services that we do not , and can bring to us the benefits of their expertise and client base on a reciprocal basis . |
| 12 | 1 You are preparing for us the scripts for the following items : |
| 13 | We seem to have a breed of unadventurous promoters who can only offer us the likes of Grooverider and Carl Cox , making it difficult for talented newcomers to get the break they deserve . |
| 14 | This required juggling between us the hats of sleuths , writers , researchers , logisticians , cameramen , diplomats , doctors , navigators , tooth-pullers and leech-pluckers , to name but a few . |
| 15 | Surely it is time we stopped talking of elephants as if they were a commodity to be traded , like so many cans of paint , and accept them for what they are , ancient and splendid fellow inhabitants of the earth who share with us the joys of close kinship bonds and grieve when they are severed . |
| 16 | Above us the fronds of the palm trees clattered in the warm wind , while out to sea Bonefish 's ragged and patched sail dipped in the steep waves beyond the reef . |
| 17 | Yes , I think as adults one thing we have to do is actually trust the wisdom of our children to let us know , to give us the cues to when they need to talk or express their fears in some way erm I mean that 's our duty not to stop them talking , not to stop them asking questions , but to be aware of when they may have fears . |
| 18 | Suddenly we were into daylight and right ahead of us the waters of the Jequetepeque ran brown and white , the river 's level close under the rails of the girder bridge as it flowed , deep and very fast , through the gorge . |
| 19 | Not really well we the Blackstone engineer fitting up engines , he stayed with us for a while to show us the ropes like you know . |
| 20 | Can you give us the prices of , have they got prices ? |
| 21 | In a public statement he agreed meekly that ‘ the resolution has shown us the goals towards which we need to strive to serve the Soviet people better ’ . |
| 22 | He provided for us the necessities of life — food , shelter , clothing . |
| 23 | ‘ Our well-paid spin-doctors must get off their backsides , Mr Chairman , and give us the tools with which we can finish the job . ’ |
| 24 | This set will finally give us the numbers of vibrations of each symmetry species . |
| 25 | And if any readers want to reveal their previous loves , send us the details at the above address , with your daytime telephone number . |
| 26 | ‘ He gave us the details of the phones . ’ |
| 27 | The man who gave us The Romans in Britain still knows how to make an audience feel uncomfortable . |
| 28 | ‘ At Christmas , a fan sent us the remains of their Christmas dinner , ’ recounts Patrick , with a measure of embarrassment , ‘ a potato , some stuffing , and a mince pie . ’ |
| 29 | He enjoyed — almost proprietorially — showing us the museums in Ironbridge , which certainly are outstanding . |
| 30 | I believe that he has , in a single word , delivered to us the votes of the majority of general practitioners in the country , for which I am most grateful . |