Example sentences of "[prep] [adj] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | There was nothing really special about that distinguishes us , distinguished us from the pack . |
| 2 | A performance such as this persuades us that such assessments are quite wide of the mark , and almost as unjust as the neglect of Summer 's Last Will . |
| 3 | Via the expression of a perverse masochism , with its disturbing mix of abjection and arrogance , this act , in one sense the supreme antithesis of everything Christ died for — he died after all to save us all — is identified as Christlike . |
| 4 | For example in one school we asked the head of French to show us on the shelves the books she had ordered under the project . |
| 5 | All of this helps us to realise that a great miracle lies in the very handing on of faith . |
| 6 | All of this leaves us asking what we will hand on to our children , to our neighbours and to our friends . |
| 7 | The fall of 17 per cent in company liquidations for the third quarter of 1991 brings us down to a figure which is still 44 per cent higher than the same period ; it does not yet represent a net recovery . |
| 8 | Six out of 10 told us they would like to be ‘ in love ’ when they make love — especially the girls . |
| 9 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 10 | ‘ My nan waited up till half past three to see us on The Chart Show , ’ says guitarist Rat shaking a tousled head . |
| 11 | None of these tell us exactly where this house stood but go to great pains to state that a field of this name is still extant . |
| 12 | A reconsideration of these moves us onto a more analytical plane , and points the way forward to discussion in subsequent chapters . |
| 13 | So we set some of our comics the toughest challenge of all make us laugh about Maastricht . |
| 14 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 15 | Se , we need someone first of all to save us from our sin . |
| 16 | Ian , a cracking debut ; first of all take us through that er first half save , you had nothing to do , conditions awful and yet you pull off a save like that . |
| 17 | He was really friendly actually , he got him out , and it was quite , sort of good to help us with it , you know , I just did n't have a clue . |
| 18 | We bribed the guide with silver and a promise of more to take us to Leicester . |
| 19 | ending the scene as he had begun it , with a soliloquy , how lucky he is to have The naked statement of self-seeking reminds us of Iago , as does the confidence with which he approaches the task — ‘ easy ’ ( ‘ For'tis most easy/Th ’ inclining Desdemona to subdue/In any honest suit' ( Othello , II.iii.332ff. ) ) — and the scorn for those taken in by his traps ( ‘ Thus credulous fools are caught ! ’ |
| 20 | ‘ IT TAKES A NATION OF MILLIONS TO HOLD US BACK ’ Public Enemy |
| 21 | Repeated use of NEW allows us to generate additional variables of this type . |
| 22 | Experiments such as these help us to appreciate the entirely automatic and non-deliberate nature of natural selection . |
| 23 | We were playing with so much arrogance that it needed something like that to make us play . |
| 24 | ‘ Biddy ’ sounds like biddable showing us that that is what Biddy is — content with her life . |
| 25 | Supplying engines to projects like this lets us compete with the supercars and avoid all the complicated polemics they create , ’ said Reitzle . |
| 26 | Corp Ainsworth , of the REME 's 15 squadron workshops , said : ‘ Something like this gives us the opportunity to put our equipment through its paces . |
| 27 | The UK airshow season for 1992 gave us all the things we love : |
| 28 | Taking a big step up price-wise puts us in real working musician territory , with a notional £1500 to spend . |
| 29 | The road ran through seemingly interminable pine forests with little to encourage us to stop and explore , and we covered over 1300 kilometres in thirty hours . |
| 30 | You love England , you above all want us to be successful . |