Example sentences of "[v-ing] us [conj] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This is the language of the press release , breathlessly informing us that a speculator whose environmental record is not exactly unblemished and whose monstrous Land 's End ‘ facilities ’ are a blight against all aesthetic considerations , really does care what happens to the dear little flowers that have taken eternity to develop , and the cuddly cliff faces which shake and quiver at the climber 's intrusive touch . |
| 2 | Every Christmas we get a card from the Reverend , informing us that the weather is temperate . |
| 3 | It was from another officious Vadinamian Warden , informing us that the Recovery — which would release the Fraxillian package — would occur at exactly the mid-hour of the following bio-day . |
| 4 | We toasted our success , de Macon informing us that the market was a prosperous one . |
| 5 | The people who moved the instruments each day to the studio had a vested interest in persuading us that the Philharmonie was no good ; people even said privately that the change must be resisted at all costs because the coffee was so much better at the church ! |
| 6 | As a means of assuring us that the management of large public companies do not wield arbitrary power it is unsatisfactory . |
| 7 | I tell the young people joining us that the great division in their lives , if they climb in the business , is the division between the company and their family . |
| 8 | At the very least he is showing us that the Christian good news is for the whole world . |
| 9 | We are very unlikely to come across a headline telling us that a member of the Anglican Church has killed himself ( unless , perhaps , it is a vicar ) — in fact , the Anglican 's religious affiliation is one of the last things likely to be mentioned in a report . |
| 10 | The causal theory could be telling us that a belief is only justified when caused ( directly or indirectly ) by the facts . |
| 11 | Only Pliny the Elder interrupts the silence by telling us that a Zachalias Babyloniensis — surely a Jew called Zacharias — wrote a book dedicated to Mithridates ( Eupator ? ) on the influence of precious stones on human destiny : this must have been written in Greek ( N.H. 37.60.169 ) . |
| 12 | We receive letters telling us that a notice was put on a board in the office telling people that they could claim . |
| 13 | Mr Gee said : ‘ Scientists keep telling us that the situation is far more urgent than politicians are admitting . |
| 14 | People keep telling us that the NME ca n't go on because music is so boring . |
| 15 | The half-time score was nil-nil — yet there was our Brian promising us that the second half would be better ! |
| 16 | There was a better than average crowd watching us and a fair number were Press photographers who were intent on getting pictures of the unwitting discoverer of Froggy 's body . |
| 17 | What other libraries , museums and centres may help me ? reminding us that the maturer student will wish to venture further and work in his own time . |
| 18 | Yes , but On the last comment that er Chris made er bringing us and the letter to county about the the failure of the meeting on the twenty second cos we feel that they are just lying down to the situation and not pursuing a pursuing the D A P about whatsoever and erm we are , certainly in John 's letter probably get it signed tonight complaining and asking for a a meeting as soon as possible because we feel that that they ought to be pursuing the question of these two sites , they 're dragging their feet ! |