Example sentences of "[prep] us [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And the only privilege they have is of looking after us is n't it ? |
| 2 | That is why the initiative of God towards us is so vital for a new start in life and marriage : ‘ We love God because he first loved us . ’ |
| 3 | It means rather that he ‘ has the value of God for us ’ because in him the love of God towards us is made known . |
| 4 | Minimal displays of aggression towards us are usually best ignored . |
| 5 | I noticed people coming towards us were n't getting in her way . |
| 6 | But accelerating towards us was a row of sharp , jutting , foamy peaks , like a set of upturned shark 's teeth wreathed in toothpaste . |
| 7 | Relationships of this kind , including most of those between normal adults , give a place to emotions such as resentment , gratitude , forgiveness or disappointment which are only appropriate when we believe that someone 's behaviour towards us was conscious and intentional . |
| 8 | Below us is the spot where King Lir 's second wife , a witch naturally , turned his two daughters into swans . |
| 9 | In the Mala Strana , the secretaries and the artists , the nurses and the busmen return to their apartments , the lights go on in the high windows , the courtyard below us is filling up with the smells of food and voices discussing — what ? |
| 10 | The track levelled out , the glen widened , and there below us was the bay . |
| 11 | Below us was the battle zone , 464 square miles of urban decay , whose every street was a border to someone . |
| 12 | ‘ The best thing for all of us is for me just to go back to London . |
| 13 | The opposition in front of us is getting less and less as we advance . |
| 14 | We turn a bend in the road and there in front of us is an entrance to a town . |
| 15 | Yet it 's estimated that about one in five of us is affected . |
| 16 | What is likely to apply for most of us is the following scenario . |
| 17 | Each man of us is as ancient and complicated , as lofty-spired and as deep-vaulted as cathedrals and castles of old , and in those lands our crypts and dark foundations are dimly remembered . |
| 18 | Neither of us is making much sense of this right now . |
| 19 | But what has outraged all of us is the spectacle of attempts to make you the scapegoat for failures of the criminal justice system , the cause of which , however defined , lay outside your control or responsibility . ’ |
| 20 | None of us is starving , however , and we all have more than enough clothes to wear , but we still spend a large part of our lives worrying about our material needs — what should we eat ? |
| 21 | None of us is perfect . |
| 22 | ‘ One of us is up , ’ Mary Mauchline said in a low voice . |
| 23 | Because each of us is unique , we will never really know ourselves . |
| 24 | Our genes may be immortal but the collection of genes that is any one of us is bound to crumble away . |
| 25 | But each of us is different , and our needs vary according to the time of day and what we are doing . |
| 26 | ‘ None of us is good at the lot . |
| 27 | None of us is pure as far as animal exploitation is concerned . |
| 28 | The sun of us is raining , |
| 29 | the light of us is dark , |
| 30 | Sometimes I almost feel on fire with the immensity of this : each of us is a person , alive , growing and relating . |