Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Liverpool University has not approached us regarding flood defence assessment . ’ |
| 2 | I 'm afraid you have n't caught us at our best . |
| 3 | You 've caught us at kind of a low point . ’ |
| 4 | But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it . |
| 5 | PLAYER : ( Acknowledging the description with a sweep of his hat , bowing : sadly ) You should have caught us in better times . |
| 6 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 7 | Burke , said Patten , had reminded us of our duties as trustees for the nation , of its traditions , its values and its riches . |
| 8 | Their views are readily recognizable in a world where the fuss about the Turin Shroud has reminded us of a time when high hopes and claims of miracle were commonly attached to pieces of the true cross or heads of John the Baptist , where much Christian literature promises believers great success in life if only they have enough faith in God , and where men and women of political power still try to have God and his Church on their side , and to use their authority to enhance their own . |
| 9 | Greenstein has reminded us of Marshall McLuhan 's distinction between " hot " and " cool " media , " hot " media presenting a complete pattern of stimuli , " cool " presenting an incomplete pattern and therefore requiring greater processing and hence a higher level of engagement on the reader 's part . |
| 10 | He depicted the life of enslaved mine workers in dark colours , and was altogether sensitive to the suffering of the humble ( as Professor Strasburger has reminded us in Journ . |
| 11 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 12 | Before we had time to correct his mistake , Mr Postman had sat us in a row at the top of the courtyard . |
| 13 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 14 | Our fathers disciplined us for a little while as they thought best ; but God disciplines us for our good , that we may share in his holiness . |
| 15 | The church had been carefully laid out and constructed , but the basic unit of measurement had eluded us until December 1982 , when Michael Vickers of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , a former member of the excavation-team , suggested that it might be the cubit , and , specifically , the long cubit . |
| 16 | That activity occupied us between our starting date ( 1968 ) and 1971 , when the launching of Language Studies as an academic department marked the beginning of a second stage . |
| 17 | ‘ Blessed art Thou , O Lord our God , King of the Universe , who hast sanctified us with Thy commandments , and hast commanded us to make our sons enter into the covenant of Abraham our Father . ’ |
| 18 | It 's really dropped us in it . |
| 19 | Got ta find this two and a half percent that has dropped us in it ! |
| 20 | Meanwhile , those of us deprived of information struggle on as best we can to make sense of a technological world which — despite Francis Bacon 's promise that modern science would make man ‘ the master and possessor of nature ’ — has once again amazed us with its vulnerability . |
| 21 | It 's strange that the Germans have not attacked us with tanks . |
| 22 | I can quote you three particular instances where farmers have rung in with good information only to be told at the other end of the phone what the bloody hell have you rung us for and they 've got nothing within the local police whatsoever . |
| 23 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 24 | ‘ Tiananmen has obviously moved us towards an attitude of caution . ’ |
| 25 | And it was a terrible winter that winter , there was about a foot of snow on the ground and I remember Slayney 's moved us with er er a pair of horses and er and er a little removal van . |
| 26 | The consequences of our choice are serious , because God has made us in his image and likeness . |
| 27 | He had missed us at Alassio and followed the train in his car , he had something to speak to her about . |
| 28 | That 's saved us about nine hundred and forty pounds . |
| 29 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 30 | Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today . |