Example sentences of "[prep] us in " in BNC.
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| 1 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 2 | She is very pleasant and helpful , and also Comrade Yu , a young teacher with plaits who looks after us in Sian and acts as interpreter . |
| 3 | ‘ I think we had reached about 11,000 feet when the barrage opened up over Valetta and , against the white puffs , I saw seven biplanes heading directly towards us in a shallow vic formation . |
| 4 | Four golden heads ( six if you count the retrievers ) turn towards us in mild surprise . |
| 5 | It looks at Willie and shunts over towards us in disinterested stages . |
| 6 | She told the court : ‘ He lifted the gun up and pointed it towards us in our car . |
| 7 | Below us in the village square Kalchu had pegged out his backstrap loom and was weaving a length of grey goat's-hair cloth to make a rug . |
| 8 | I had prepared an unimaginative tunafish salad for the two of us in order to show off my new personal austerity programme . |
| 9 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 10 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 11 | As we lost height , just the two of us in a landscape of dazzling white , so Liena regained strength and interest in the day , and we would stop every now and then to sit on our rucksacks in the snow that coated the glacier and gaze in awe at the beauty of the scene . |
| 12 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 13 | But those of us in the recycling business must take issue with the statement from the British Plastics Federation that recycled plastics can not safely be used to package food . |
| 14 | Later this evening , about 11 p.m. , the Germans mounted a bombardment of our positions which convinced us sheltering in the slit trenches that the enemy were still in front of us in strength and were telling us that they intended to stay there . |
| 15 | For most of us in Britain , Christmas and New Year are a time of good cheer in the company of family and friends . |
| 16 | Large numbers of us in this country are getting fed up of being talked down to and dictated to by the existing planning , architectural and development establishment . |
| 17 | My Mum brought up five of us in a flat far worse than what these immigrants complain about . ’ |
| 18 | All of us in leadership know something of that . |
| 19 | There were always things to be done , and Grandma joined in with the rest of us in her quiet , dreamy , unobtrusive way . |
| 20 | It was only a pound a time including tea and biscuits ; fifty pence for OAPs , UB40s , students and disabled , which was most of us in Claro . |
| 21 | It will also have every reason to lose confidence and trust in us , and be more wary of us in the future . |
| 22 | All of us in the team knew that we were totally dependent on the Lord for any ‘ success ’ — but it was still reassuring at each crusade when Walter would murmur to me as he surveyed the huge first night crowds — ‘ Well , Harvey , that 's your job safe till the next one . |
| 23 | The result was so spectacular that those of us in the front line who were showered with debris turned up at future games wearing motorbike goggles to protect our eyes and in honour of our hero . |
| 24 | He says she is still the MP she was ; in 1986 she told a hard left conference that ‘ if they come for Militant in the morning , they 'll come for the rest of us in the afternoon ’ . |
| 25 | The only certainty is that the eclipse of the pollsters , and — by implication — all of us in the media who focus so much attention upon their findings , is a happy outcome for democracy . |
| 26 | THE CASE of World Athletics versus All Credibitity has now reached such a pitch of mealy-mouthed , farcical dithering that some of us in the public gallery are considering leaping into the well of the court and making a noisy scene . |
| 27 | Ian Woosnam came to Augusta National playing , in his own words , like a 24-handicapper , though those of us in that category just wish we could spray the ball similarly around the practice ground or putt it so waywardly . |
| 28 | Few of us in Hut 6 ever knew that our revered chief was a mere lance-corporal ! |
| 29 | No recreation was arranged for those of us in outlying areas . |
| 30 | It must be a cause for concern to those of us in the public sector that in the period 1979–90 the percentage of children receiving private education increased from 5 per cent to 7.8 per cent a growth of over 50 per cent . |