Example sentences of "us [adv] as " in BNC.
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| 1 | THE brown cow eyed us suspiciously as we approached . |
| 2 | I do n't SEE WHy people grope us together as holigans 'cos we ai n't alright you get troble makers in every facktion But They do nt publish it if a niggeR does a old Biddy do they give us a faiR chance will someone as for stop being a SKIN I do nt think I will . ’ |
| 3 | The old rhetoric of disdainful dismissal , the one that grouped all of us together as ‘ cranks ’ , ‘ lunatics ’ , ‘ freaks ’ , or simple-minded members of an addled army of ‘ little old ladies in tennis shoes ’ — this old rhetoric is dead , or dying . |
| 4 | We were in Hartlepool in the March of 1890 when Mr Frobisher , our then actor-manager , told us all as we assembled for a Monday morning rehearsal that he had secured the services of a great singer . |
| 5 | Each time we went for another animal all those left howled and fought their chains to get close to us so as not to be left behind . |
| 6 | They read our body language better than we do ourselves , and signal to us just as they would to each other . |
| 7 | joined us just as we were ready to go overseas , he had just come out of er Flight School and of course his heart was set on being a fighter pilot and here he became a co-pilot so he was a very disappointed man and he did not stand up well in combat so there were n't too many missions , about five and I bounced him off the crew and would n't fly with him any more and got then other co-pilots to fly with me from our Squadron . |
| 8 | ‘ I have contacted Bruno 's lawyer and told him to tell Frank that if he wants to fight Lennox he should get in contact with us directly as I understand that Duff 's promotional contract expires in April . |
| 9 | Such practice appears to us now as rigid , authoritarian and unimaginative . |
| 10 | He adduces some non-musical reasons ( the plague of Thomas Nashe 's London in 1592 has 400 years later a qualitative and psychological , if not numerical , counterpart ) , but the score itself speaks to us now as perhaps it did not manage to do in its own time , when for ‘ significant ’ and profound modernity people looked towards composers who made a more assertive break with tradition . |
| 11 | To pass beyond it is to cross the threshold into another dimension which , for all its pragmatic gifts to the West over the centuries , remains as mysteriously little-known to us now as it was for the first explorers . |
| 12 | Hear us now as we attempt to contact Simon 's father and help him in the great spiritual work that awaits him in this prime time of his boyhood ! ’ |
| 13 | Who might be walking among us even as we pray to the Lord Jesus ? ’ |
| 14 | Now I 'd I notice there 's a an enormous telescope behind us here as well . |
| 15 | How can people have faith in us if we hold our job to redress the grievances of those who set us here as unimportant ? |
| 16 | According to this definition , time has no substantive existence but is a mental concept or means of measurement — a point of view that strikes us today as being remarkably modern . |
| 17 | If this strikes us today as quaint , peculiar in its literalness , we have to remember that he was addressing , through his parents , a nation that prized practicality . |
| 18 | And please help us today as we go our different ways to work , to school , to nursery . |
| 19 | Even Dad looked at us proudly as he paused in his job of putting up the bunting . |
| 20 | ‘ Are you sure you want us there as well , Robina ? ’ |
| 21 | This not only opens up what is going on , but takes us forward as well . |
| 22 | As we dropped down towards Gunnerside , rabbits exploded in all directions and Bill had so many to choose from he lay down confused , unable to make his mind up , looking at us pitifully as though we could make up his mind for him . |
| 23 | A woman was driving and she parked beside our land-cruiser , nodding to us briefly as she stepped out onto the road and flung a series of questions at the Indian , half in Spanish and half in a more guttural tongue , which I took to be Quechua . |
| 24 | We need to plan our leisure so that it is creative and recharges us mentally as well as physically . |