Example sentences of "us from the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 2 | The old cry , familiar to us from the Exodus stories , now goes up again . |
| 3 | David says : ‘ After it finished , 18 of us from the course decided to carry on meeting but then everyone went their separate ways . |
| 4 | I and the one other passenger viewed the landscape through the grill dividing us from the driver , the mail , bottles of milk and newspapers . |
| 5 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 6 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
| 7 | No front garden , just two feet of concrete between the house and the pavement , with a little wall to separate us from the road . |
| 8 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 9 | After all , that is the first thing about us that others see and a well-groomed , well-dressed image reflected back at us from the mirror goes a long way to bolstering our private and public confidence . |
| 10 | He can defend us , can separate us from the past , from the concentration camps and lost wars . |
| 11 | Collectors would give anything for the chance to hear him project his art to us from the clarity of a recording studio . |
| 12 | Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods . |
| 13 | During the day we lay up in the desert , camouflaging ourselves with pieces of hessian sacking against the R.A.F. patrols who were out looking for us from the air . |
| 14 | The four of us stand watching each other in the dark street while the laughing crowd drifts past us from the pub 's side door . |
| 15 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
| 16 | Jamie snarls at us from the pillow . |
| 17 | Well that 's thursday behind us and there 's now only one day separating us from the weekend . |
| 18 | Two pretexts were given for the failure to release us from the airport : that one of the mares wore a head-collar with an obviously masculine name embossed , and that one of the fillies ’ passports was stamped GONE TO STUD . |
| 19 | A charming Chinese member of staff greeted us and took us from the airport to Robert Black College which was to be our home for four months . |
| 20 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 21 | A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad . |
| 22 | The cabbie , who drove us from the airport to our hotel , had spent some time in Oxford and London . |
| 23 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 24 | I suppose that was to fool anyone watching us from the river bank . |
| 25 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to tell us from the beginning , ’ said Montgomery softly . |
| 26 | It was clear to us from the beginning that 1991 would not be a very good year to launch anything — from magazines to Scuds . |
| 27 | They protect the organs of the body and insulate us from the cold . |
| 28 | It is a bloody , those of us from the south , now is as Watford , Hertfordshire , sorry about that , you know , we 're well happy , you stand no chance of oh dear , I 've got in the eye here , you know , we declared independence years ago . |
| 29 | Those of us from the South who left behind tree-strewn roads and gardens after the devastation of the recent October storm , were delighted to be in such beautiful surroundings again and to meet with our Lilleshall friends from other parts of the country . |
| 30 | The following , recommended by the Law Society , is now widely used : In consideration of you today completing the purchase of we hereby undertake forthwith to pay over to Building Society the money required to redeem the mortgage/legal charge dated and to forward the redeemed mortgage/legal charge to you as soon as it is received by us from the Building Society . |