Example sentences of "[noun pl] [subord] [pron] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does n't this place provide models if they want us to get these things right ? ’ |
| 2 | This is an interesting book even for non-Southern devotees as he takes us through from the most menial shunting operation with grimy British Rail survivors to sleek passenger workings with shiny green locomotives . |
| 3 | Erm and it 'll also help us to get the the out of your way , we 'll get out of your hair within five or six days if you give us all the businesses . |
| 4 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 5 | Because it 's a national thing I mean it 's something the company is hoping to go forward with the time it 's a government initiative , if we are offering trainee managers when they join us an , an N V Q and they do n't get it at the end of their training . |
| 6 | A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house . |
| 7 | May they remind us of birthdays and other gift-days as they teach us the secret that all life is meant for celebration and contemplation . |
| 8 | Half the time we carry on as if we did n't have a body : and we only think about our bodies if they trouble us — if we 're hungry or in pain . |
| 9 | Maybe we should listen to our friends when they tell us a few home truths . |
| 10 | Burridge became Palace 's top scorer in the two seasons after he joined us and his 20 League goals in 1963–64 were a key reason for our further progress to Division Two . |
| 11 | Indeed , the positive emotions are frequently more threatening than the negative ones because they open us up to others , and they allow us to become lost in causes greater than ourselves . |
| 12 | Since a version of this argument was repeated in his broadcast talks and made a linchpin of Lewis 's defence of Christianity , it may be profitable to lay down our books for five minutes as he urged us to do when thinking of a world without chloroform and meditate on what he has laid before us . |
| 13 | ‘ The Scots are in no mood to have foreigners , or Sassenachs as they call us , interfering in their affairs , but by all means keep yourself conversant with what is happening . |