Example sentences of "us [prep] [adj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Yes , of course , Flick has been going it lately — her letters have been awfully scrappy , but she 's told us about all the dancing and bridge , and that Russian prince with the name like a hiccup who takes her all over the place . |
| 2 | Jason and Rachel Sheffield rush between us , helping with the boat , and there is Jean who has been our main support and encouraged and organized us through all the long months of preparation , fed us , nagged us and even done my washing ! |
| 3 | ‘ Those fans who stayed with us through all the shit are really great , but the general rank and file sort of faded away rather quick . |
| 4 | However , everything was very civilised , as the Chinese travel staff , in their inevitable blue caps and jackets , ushered us through all the details , and even provided tea and lunch at the border station , in a rather old world atmosphere of chintz curtains and sofas with antimacassars . |
| 5 | The ‘ Sinatra/Jagger/Jive Bunny 's Back ’ joke has seen us through many a long winter . |
| 6 | We stayed in a cheap boarding-house from which the landlord saw fit to evict us for all the hours of daylight ; strolling abroad , we devoted our time to churchgoing and to incoherent altercations with the Italian police . |
| 7 | Well I think an awful lot of people think of Oxfam and think of the shops , er and the shops have been terribly important to us for such a long time , but we 've found a few years ago that er people who , er were asked said that they would give money to Oxfam , but that they were n't necessarily always asked . |
| 8 | Er and Jane has sent us in some proposals , which erm she 's s since modified and is now working on and she 's calling in to see us for half a day in the near future |
| 9 | That we sit down with the figures and it might be another thing like we did with the bridal magazines , that we go to somebody and say , look we would like to do this to increase our turnover , will you fund us for half a year ? |
| 10 | But Charlton joint manager Alan Curbishley said : ‘ They slaughtered us for half an hour — but only half an hour . |
| 11 | He will then bill us for half the cost as agreed . |
| 12 | Although we have been playing teams which have been going through crap periods , I think this has worked against us as all the opposition players and fans etc have been desperate for some sort of result . |
| 13 | For Page has deliberately divided his dancers into the traditional hierarchy of principles , soloists and corps , and in so doing reminds us of all the great courts of 19th century ballets . |
| 14 | It strips us of all the illusions and idolatry of the world , to face our basic personal need . |
| 15 | After another 13 years of getting the country into a mess the Tories tell us of all the good things they are going to do if re-elected . |
| 16 | Charismatics can be very dismissive and intolerant of those who do not share their religious perspective and Rolle frequently reminds us of such an attitude . |
| 17 | Sir Austin Pearce , one of the NRM 's guardians , told us via muffled a Tannoy ( uncannily similar to a real station announcement ) that the NRM would not merely look to the past , but also to the present and the future of rail . |
| 18 | While G.P. was the one who led us into all the serious things . |
| 19 | Using the personal food and drink audit we should be seeking a new balance in our diet that will provide us with all the essential nutrients that our bodies need . |
| 20 | Abu piloted us with all the aplomb of a sailor surging through dangerous surf , and finally brought us to an entire circular village of some sixty three-storey houses , all shaped like space-arcs . |
| 21 | Nor have I mentioned several subsequent sightings during Rainbow 's taxi runs , when the little beast prowled two or three cars behind us with all the tenacity of a television detective or a thirsty midge . |
| 22 | An old servant , bald as a badger , yellow-faced and wizened , bustled towards us with all the speed of a snail ; he mumbled apologies in French but Ralemberg just tapped him gently on the shoulder and told him not to worry . |
| 23 | Winnicott provides us with such a concept . |
| 24 | [ reading ] " I always thought my young master a fine gentleman as everybody says he is , but he gave these good things to us with such a graciousness that I thought he looked like an angel . " |
| 25 | The National Health has told us one and a half percent if we want an extra day 's holiday , if we want an extra day 's holiday , then we would have to take three days , we could take two , that would leave us with half a percent . |
| 26 | God bless Mummy , Daddy , all our family , those throughout the world ; Keep all Evil from our home , And by the great mercy defend us From all the perils and dangers of this night , amen |
| 27 | You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see . |
| 28 | He made his Palace debut at Clapton Orient ( 0–1 ) on 26 February and made 13 appearances for us in all the remaining matches of the season . |
| 29 | It steals between us in such a way that whether or not he sees me only as the outline Woman , I see him through it only as the crude outline Man . |
| 30 | Can we not do more even than we 're doing at the moment to restore to the centre of the life of the church the glorious concept of a team of pastoral care and a high command of power strategy in which dominance by ministers will be reduced to the minimum in order that together we may be ready to let the lifeblood of Christ flow through us in such a way that we will be better able to welcome the twenty first century in his name . |