Example sentences of "[vb -s] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he drops us in Earls Court , the back of his cab smells like we dropped a bottle of brandy . |
| 2 | He coasts it through Southwark to the Old Vic , crosses Waterloo Bridge , heads west along the Strand into Trafalgar Square — empty of pigeons in the dove-grey light — mooches out through the West End , glides round Hyde Park Corner as if it was always free of traffic , and drops us in Earls Court like it was just the street next door . |
| 3 | More recently , we have amended the legislation in the Environmental Protection Act 1990 , which again places us in the vanguard of Europe , with additional provisions for integrated pollution control for those industrial processes with the most potential for pollution , and for a duty of care for all producers and handlers of waste . |
| 4 | Caroline Durkan , the GDA senior projects executive handling the scheme , said yesterday : ‘ It places us in an awkward position if we try to get cash from the public sector if the private sector do not see the benefits of Citywatch . ’ |
| 5 | It strips us of all the illusions and idolatry of the world , to face our basic personal need . |
| 6 | It is that , more than the power of abstract reasoning , which elevates us above the kine and the denizens of the deep . |
| 7 | It behoves us to be sceptical , then , about Victorian genealogical status symbols ; frequently there is an inverse proportion between the degree of pomp and the humble nature of the ancestry . |
| 8 | But I wish to relate to the council a particular episode , which I hope will convey something to those people who are perhaps still wavering erm , and whilst we all have principle stands on issues it behoves us as members to consider the views of our constituents and the sorts of things that take place in our wards . |
| 9 | And this would be the point from which to look back at Olson , as Catherine Seelye wants us to , and to regard The Maximus Poems as embodying ‘ the way of confusio ’ . |
| 10 | He wants us to be with Him , so that He can show us His Love . |
| 11 | As the recriminations between the brothers become more explosive , and the wounds of jealousy reopen , I 've a horrible suspicion that Harwood wants us to be genuinely moved , but after all the superficial comedy , his attempt to lend the play emotional depth arouses embarrassment rather than pity . |
| 12 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 13 | We , he wants us to hea hear the words spoken , spoken words , yeah ? |
| 14 | But you know if you wanted to talk about sanctification , as a for instance , that 's growing in grace and holiness , becoming more the person that God wants us to be . |
| 15 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 16 | He was joyful , because that is the way God wanted him to be , and because that is the way that God wants us to be . |
| 17 | ‘ My father 's made it clear enough that he wants us to — to — ’ |
| 18 | That , that kind of er that kind of alienates us from |
| 19 | So what we actually are possibly seeing is ourselves coming out of the trough so therefore part of it 's a training curve , but we do need to see that training curve start to come down and get back on to a level but we do n't know where the level is , that 's what worries us at this stage . |
| 20 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 21 | If we are intended for great ends , we are called to great hazards ; and , whereas we are given absolute certainty in nothing , we must in all things choose between doubt and inactivity , and the conviction that we are under the eye of One who , for whatever reason , exercises us with the less evidence when He might give us the greater . |
| 22 | Unable to do anything for ourselves , and then God comes and rescues us in our hop , hopelessness , and helplessness . |
| 23 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 24 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 25 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 26 | Unless it starts us down that road fairly quickly , the people of the north-east and the other regions will not want to follow . |
| 27 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 28 | Blessed by God the eternal mystery creator of the universe heavens of human kind the almighty who loves us with a mother 's love the everlasting one who holds us as children to his cheeks Glory |
| 29 | One focus is Jesus , who reveals the love of God for us , and so reconciles us to God , ; the other is the spiritual and ethical community which he founded . |
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