Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 2 | It 's them or us , is n't it ? |
| 3 | Rather them than us but it 's still a great film . |
| 4 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 5 | Patiently , the practitioner examined them , me and us , and proclaimed that I would probably be able to see jolly well if I did n't have them inside out and in the wrong eyes . |
| 6 | but there 's only me and us though more rabbit |
| 7 | As one part-time policeman said , ‘ The regulars are all right , but there 's definitely a difference between them and us . |
| 8 | On the other hand , Finniston feels that the younger generation is having a favourable impact on the need to rid Britain of the ‘ them and us ’ syndrome that has plagued industry for so long and been at the root of so many of its ills . |
| 9 | He detected no atmosphere of ‘ them and us ’ , though he suspects that in similar circumstances today it might be a different story . |
| 10 | Managers ( where they existed ) did too little to involve the workforce and there were often great ‘ them and us ’ divisions between the medical staff and the rest . |
| 11 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |
| 12 | There is then no longer them and us , for the mind has expanded to include them and us in one larger us . |
| 13 | It was a good game between them and us . |
| 14 | Essentially , the industrial world was divided into ‘ them and us ’ ; a dichotomous view of the world in which there are those who manage and those who are managed . |
| 15 | The government has been keen to encourage employees to buy shares in their privatised companies , in an attempt to improve industrial relations and productivity and to eradicate the ‘ them and us ’ attitude in industry , by improving employee identification with their company . |
| 16 | But an exchange puts both them and us into a geographical funnel towards the meeting point . ’ |
| 17 | Just them and us , up here in the roof , and a storeroom and a bathroom . |
| 18 | Them and us |
| 19 | So often in working relationships there is a them and us mentality . |
| 20 | Do you think that there is even a sort of ‘ them and us ’ attitude , a feeling that the arts world is an ever open maw that cries out for endless sums of money and that the proper business of government is to resist ? |
| 21 | ‘ I do n't suppose you could put some distance between them and us ? ’ |
| 22 | In South Africa , God has ordained that the world be divided between the races : black and white , Boer and Brit , them and us . |
| 23 | The two component parts of Owen 's productive classes had been placed on the opposite sides of a divide ; and their separation into ‘ them and us ’ was now so far completed as to have become irreversible . |
| 24 | ‘ But we did n't mind a bit , a job here was so much more than just a means to an end , it was never a case of them and us . |
| 25 | ‘ He always recognized what we 've done ; there was never any them and us , ’ Dai recounted proudly . |
| 26 | The they 're never sort of given feeble excuses , we are erm very truthful with them , i in order to make them understand that , you know , there are limitations erm within our jobs as well , cos a lot of people expect things , and erm you may promise them , well other people may promise them , and it 's not delivered then of course it 's sort of them and us , and we , we try to dispel that idea , it 's not them |
| 27 | To suggest that the signs are up in order to show a ‘ vigorous contempt for the people whose productive labour pays for all their intellectual endeavour ’ is not only wrong but reinforces the old stereotype of ‘ them and us ’ which at least some colleges are trying to break down . |
| 28 | Other hon. Members intervened and I thought that the debate was developing along ’ them and us ’ or north-south lines . |
| 29 | But there 's another big issue , one that unions and employers have got to tackle to clear the ground for greater cooperation between us , and that 's the still passive acceptance of the them and us syndrome . |
| 30 | It 's very them them and us . |