Example sentences of "[pron] be us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Who 's us ? |
| 2 | We are us , you are you , I am me and our friends are our friends ! |
| 3 | We are us . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ I 'm sure they 're as good as we are but , they 're them and we 're us . |
| 5 | If someone was looking for The Bar in those days — because there was no name written up or sign for it , no lights at all , and not even a number on the door , Madame liked to keep it that way even when she did n't have to any more — I mean when she opened up we may all have been in a sort of hiding , and not many people knew about The Bar and our life there , but it was n't that way later , and now you know we can have lights and advertising and you see boys queueing up outside every night , very public , and I like to see that — but in those days , in those days if somebody arranged to meet you for a date there , and it was their first time and they were n't sure how to find us , you 'd joke with them , and you 'd say well first there is a wedding , and then there 's a death , and there 's the news , and then there 's us ; meaning , first there 's the shop with the flowers , the real ones , and next door to that is the undertaker 's with the fake flowers in the window , china , all dusty ; and then the newsagent 's and magazine shop , and then right next door to that is The Bar . |
| 6 | There 's us lot working and slaving from dawn till dusk for nowt , and the two who 've not stuck to the straight and narrow as come off t'best . |
| 7 | ‘ There 's us , of course . |
| 8 | Oh god Oh no wonder you say there 's us like eating cockles I suppose as the French eating snails int it ? |
| 9 | Now there 's us working working , taking everything in , working slowly taking everything in piece by piece we could end up with a job at the end of it cos we know what we 're doing . |
| 10 | I think there 's I think there 's quite a few and I think this is what swayed it , the fact that they have had erm , I know of at least ten say ten , there 's one , two , three on the other side of the road which is good because Bob which is another one , so that 's four , there 's which is the other side of the shop , is five , there 's us , six , Jean seven , the eight , erm the guy the other side of the which is nine , there is Ginny over the and the erm old persons ' home , that 's ten that I know of for certain about , er and then I 've heard of other people were gon na be writing in , now whether they actually did or not I do n't know |
| 11 | And there 's us saying that we were sick of the rain . |
| 12 | Er two bedrooms , it was a number sixty six Street in those days , there were new houses built on where it is now , I have n't been into Palfry for years but er there were five houses in the row , there was a family named at one end , there was us my nan of course we were next to , next to us was Mrs , a Mr and Mrs , and then er that was one side of the entry the other side of the entry was a family named , they had quite a large family , there was er two or three of those married Mrs and then er then Mrs they were all relatives , cos there was no such thing as overcrowding in those days you got as many in as you could you see , there was , another was Mr and Mrs she was a daughter of Mrs there was Mrs and Mrs she was another daughter of Mrs , and then er there were , there was a , a young man he was a son of Mrs , the were I think show people originally cos they were a bit anyhow there were five houses down the yard we had n't got running water in the sink , we had a , a big stone pump pipe in at the bottom of the entry we all had to go and draw out our own drinking water from this one standpipe . |
| 13 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 14 | But it 's us who are getting shot and blown up . |
| 15 | To get in I and the friend who is taking me hammer and hammer on the door , shout over and over again in Bengali ‘ It 's us , it 's us , let us in ’ . |
| 16 | To get in I and the friend who is taking me hammer and hammer on the door , shout over and over again in Bengali ‘ It 's us , it 's us , let us in ’ . |
| 17 | Once more , it 's Us and Them . |
| 18 | It 's us who 'll have the next lot of babies , not you . |
| 19 | We have met the enemy to good marketing and good relationships and it 's us . |
| 20 | It 's us , our team . ’ |
| 21 | It 's us and them . |
| 22 | Well , maybe it 's us guitarists ! |
| 23 | ‘ It is Obvious that it 's us , ’ averred Mr Wahlberg . |
| 24 | He thinks it 's us trying to come on like Einstein . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ Wo n't folk be saying it 's us , not Allan Lamb , who are bringing the game into disrepute by acting out a lie and covering up for Pakistan 's bowlers ? |
| 26 | It 's us who untied you back in the Emerald Suite . |
| 27 | At the same time we were organising meeting 's to tell local people about it and to get there views and to make it clear again that we were , you know , we were in a position where we were being forced to do something by this legislation that we did n't want to do and we wanted just , the alternative was if we had set a rent rise , which have been dramatically higher , I mean the four pounds , twenty five rent rise that we eventually had to agree to was higher than what the Council wanted to put the rent 's up by , you would think well the Council put the rent 's up by four pounds , twenty five , erm , and you know , that , that 's why the Council does that sort of thing but it 's us that gets involved in that kind of work , producing information and developing responses and then the secon d major area is what I 've just labelled a strategic policy development , and that mainly erm put policies that are like a rise within the Council rather than things that come from outside , like for example , because were the kind of Council we , we are , there was a debate amongst officer 's and member 's to develop an anti poll strategy and two hundred and eight thousand pounds was found to be linked to that strategy and erm , as that 's enabled various initiative 's to get under , under schemes , crashes for children in the town , stuff like that , er and also , erm to provide an overall policy frame work for other Council department 's . |
| 28 | Erm , and eh and we , if the the Council also can provide supports for those groups and it 's us that will provide the support and we leave it as general as that . |
| 29 | They 'll just assume it 's us . |
| 30 | What had excited him was the message — " it 's us against them . |