Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We played in Guernsey and this man came after us waving a stick and shouting that we were heretics and ‘ Thou shalt not be a false Messiah ’ . |
| 2 | And that Famlio had come after us to get it . |
| 3 | He who is the blameless party takes the initiative in running towards us to forgive . |
| 4 | " There were many of them , hundreds , coming up the street towards us shouting . |
| 5 | This dry pattern will continue into tomorrow but the cloud I 've told you about in Scotland will wander down towards us bringing some thicker cloud for a while . |
| 6 | And one day we were coming along and these local ladies were coming towards us said oh we love going down the country roads and you know , oh look at all these poor refugees ! |
| 7 | We were both absorbed in our work when we heard angry cries : the owner of the field hurrying towards us armed with a big stick . |
| 8 | When the men who are coming towards us have passed , climb back up and run to the place where the staging descends to the street . |
| 9 | The loamy bat-dung crawled with poisonous six-inch millipedes , and at one point we automatically prostrated ourselves amongst them as a horde of disturbed bats swept towards us to escape . |
| 10 | Then coming towards us appeared His Excellency , President Camille Chamoun … |
| 11 | He ambled towards us smirking , tapping a packet of air-mail envelopes on his palm . |
| 12 | ‘ Below us lay the winding valley of the Onny , with the dense woods of Plowden rising on the other side . |
| 13 | A third warned , ‘ If you think we are discouraged , how do you think the people below us feel who watch us repeatedly fail ? ’ |
| 14 | Fifteen thousand feet below us flowed the Hunza River and edging it , like fine purfling , the Karakoram Highway . |
| 15 | Below us sparkled the Garbh Uisge , bouncing noisily down from the melting snows over jumbled slabs . |
| 16 | I felt Edward 's pressure at my hip wheeling the hug until the three of us circled in a scrum of affection . |
| 17 | You know , some of us specialise in soap operas and some of us in news . |
| 18 | All of us finished , all of us finished |
| 19 | All of us finished , all of us finished |
| 20 | In the bustle of everything , none of us noticed her do it — there was no reason for us to . |
| 21 | I 'm sure none of us noticed what must have been expressions of pure panic on the faces of our two teachers and the several parents who had volunteered to keep their own children and their classmates from certain death by drowning in the pool . |
| 22 | Well , it was supposed to be a holiday , and I did promise Claire I would n't take anything to do with work to Barbados , but both of us noticed fairly quickly just how few dogs there were on the island . |
| 23 | Some of us contemplate this prospect with horror . |
| 24 | Well I do n't think there 's any danger of us unleashing the nationalism . |
| 25 | ‘ You mean the matter of us costing you your wife , your job at the department , a dog named Blue and six months in intensive care ? ’ |
| 26 | Three of us exchanged telephone numbers and the Chinese Lesbian Group was formed . |
| 27 | As the British conservative Roger Scruton rather inelegantly expresses his own indignation about feminist linguistic reform , ‘ Each of us inherits in language the wisdom of many generations . |
| 28 | For all of us listening this was a spur to further ‘ action with the world 's poor ’ . |
| 29 | Four of us fished that night and four of us blanked . |
| 30 | Few of us worry about security when we write a cheque . |