Example sentences of "[prep] us [subord] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Anyway , there was hardly an atmosphere of trust between the two of us so the idea of me ‘ dealing ’ with him was not a comfortable one . |
| 2 | ‘ She 's badly run down anyway — like most of us since the war — and has very little resistance . ’ |
| 3 | It wo n't be over for any of us until the people who make war have been destroyed . ’ |
| 4 | Crilly , I 'll tell you about the sparkle of Belgravia , the shimmer of white marble , a sumptuous , salubrious white , the sugary white of fluffy friendship , cloudship , feely white , and the slim cobblestone road which led to the river where I met James who was fresh from Waterstone 's with his arms full of Pinter plays , O he was as a young Terence Stamp , Crilly , but for the sly cracks of wisdom about the corners of his eyes , and we drank espresso and he told me about Spain and the high mountains of India , and the Pyrenees he had taken on foot , and though I was as trite as my shopping Saturdays and my small muggy and squirming palms in summertime , he painted my body swirly-lined and peach upon a large canvas and made love to me upon the tip of the Heath with all of London a basin of rooftops beneath us while the sky loomed low in grey and pink , the Heath a dark pudding of sloping mountains , wild and white and wide as Brontë country , with only the smug suburban cliffs of Highgate Village peering from behind its sprawling hem , and big dogs scurried like brown birds to the crevice of foothills and then disappeared , so we made love for a while beneath that sky , which cast a blaze upon us the colour of cream . |
| 5 | I mean if we go , we 're sitting on the outside and invariably they 're a bit over into the gangway well if a chap kept pushing against us as the car went round corners it would n't be very nice would it ? |
| 6 | At a time when we are on the threshold of change , indeed very considerable change , in local government and when our burghs which have been with us since the earliest times are about to disappear , it may be of interest to look at the burghs of Scotland prior to the passing of the Reform Act and their position in the election of Members for the Westminster Parliament . |
| 7 | I can still hear in my imagination the sounds of lambing in springtime , particularly from Blind Beck , just over to the north-east from us where the Lowsons farmed . |
| 8 | It does not seem that we necessarily are always simply taken , let alone overtaken , by our desires , so that they act themselves out in us as the force of the wind acts on a leaf . |
| 9 | Jesus Christ , Piper , our guns are better at inflicting casualties on us than the Germans . ’ |
| 10 | The early feminists make more of an impression on us than the overwhelming mass of their contemporary sisters who took it for granted that their place in society would be one of legal and social inequality to men . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's more precious to us than the crown jewels . ’ |
| 12 | In the event , the military offered rather less opposition to us than the Iraqis did to them : which was a mixed blessing . |
| 13 | If you do so you must repay to us immediately the amount by which your withdrawal exceeded the amount available and if you fail to do this we may debit any other account or accounts you may have . |
| 14 | Order , will the right hon. Gentleman seek to have the report of the Select Committee on Energy on the privatisation of the electricity industry in Northern Ireland available to us before the debate takes place ? |
| 15 | They want a spread of expenditure for the contract works So what we agreed with them is that we will forthwith start sending them client reports and I 've asked them if they will report back to us whether the client reports are in the form they want them . |
| 16 | Probably many of us have treasured letters containing gems of spiritual guidance which have come to us when the writer could not , or during times of personal need or crisis . |
| 17 | So promise thou 'll come to us when the year is up . |
| 18 | ‘ You know what will happen to us if the book is not found , ’ snarled Dashwood . |
| 19 | Clearly it will be most helpful to us if the responsible people for the teaching of a course themselves fill in the details . |
| 20 | They come to us because the manufacturer or retailer wishes to take advantage of exposure in what is simply the best and biggest fishkeeping magazine in the UK . |
| 21 | ‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs . |
| 22 | But she ministered to us as the tape-recorder whirred . |
| 23 | We have now the Cambridge Encyclopaedia which is probably as important to us as the dictionary is to them , it 's a really important new publication for us , and a book which there is n't really an equivalent from Oxford , so I think there 's room for both of us . |
| 24 | Nothing could have been worse for us than the children having to suffer and , thankfully , so far they have not had to . |
| 25 | Perhaps an even greater shock for us than the small population , tiny towns and scattered rural communities is the shape of the countryside ; the physical geography seems to be different . |
| 26 | While it may be exaggerating to say that the Scottish Office is anti-cycling , it has in the past done far less for us than the local authorities have , and despite changes of public opinion the Scottish Office still views cycling as a ( road safety ) problem instead of a solution to traffic congestion which is healthy ( cf. the BMA Report , ‘ Cycling : Towards Health and Safety ’ , 1992 ) , cheap , quick and pollution-free . |
| 27 | Strict conventionalism would be a very restrictive conception of law for us because the explicit extensions of our putative conventions Of legislation and precedent contain very little that has much practical importance in actual litigation . |
| 28 | However , perhaps it would be best for us if the tour is not soon ’ — LAURIE MAINS ( new All Black coach ) on future contests with South Africa . |
| 29 | She is neat at sewing , and we will take in lodgers between us until the business is paying its way . ’ |