Example sentences of "us [adv] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lanto Synge , Mallett & Son , London ( leading dealers in English furniture ) : Themes certainly do stretch us artistically and commercially but they present an interesting and challenging exercise . |
| 2 | All the time the train is carrying us slowly but surely up the French coast . |
| 3 | He appeared reasonable at first , speaking to us slowly and explaining our daily routine . |
| 4 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
| 5 | ‘ Britain will suffer economically , will be isolated from Europe , and the rest of Europe will go ahead in some shape or form , taking decisions which affect us intimately and over which we have no control . |
| 6 | Imprisonment and becoming refugees had affected us badly and we needed the support we were given . |
| 7 | Each step leads us upward and forward , each providing further transformation of our lives before God and before ourselves in the light of God . |
| 8 | We even paid a surprise visit to Corsham , where Rosemary and Clifford Ellis welcomed us warmly and invited me to give a series of lectures and classes . |
| 9 | Rev. J. Black welcomed us warmly and Fr. |
| 10 | Sports — Will it pull us together or apart ? |
| 11 | One , Danny Blanchflower , called us together and told us he wanted the team to play like the great one-touch Spurs side of the 60s . |
| 12 | ‘ I recognize that there can be no future for us together and yet I know a great fondness for the prince — a fondness that time , I suspect , will not lessen . ’ |
| 13 | Of course , we had many political differences but the twin oppressions of being Irish lesbians and immigrants brought us together and gave us a strong framework upon which to build our own movement and within which to begin articulating our anger at English feminism . |
| 14 | I can still vividly remember the referee calling us together and saying : ‘ On your way . ’ |
| 15 | But while we were there they had several meetings because of course we were going to be demobbed anyway , and the Colonel er of the regiment he had us together and so did the officers , and warned us that when we got back to civilian life we must er beware of these agitators who tried to er create suspicion amongst the troops who were coming back , and telling them that they ought to join er these revolutionary parties . |
| 16 | After rehearsals , Sir calls us together And each group performs their play , But just as it comes to our turn The bell goes for the end of the day . |
| 17 | The invisible forces brought us together and made us waltz to an unheard tune . |
| 18 | Once we were issued with our camouflage gear , face protection and goggles the game marshals grouped us together and explained the rules of the game along with the safety rules . |
| 19 | killed whilst CO of No Squadron ) got a few of us together and suggested that we made a time-and-distance run from the seemingly everlasting fires of Rotterdam to the target — a large troop concentration some 35 miles away . |
| 20 | Drawing us deeper and deeper into its brightness — |
| 21 | ‘ Kenny 's contributions and success at Crewe impressed us greatly and he also has a reasonable knowledge of the local non-League scene . |
| 22 | You do n't we were u we had to use the immersion did n't we cos w we moved in in the June and Lofty and Brian said well do n't have it done cos you 're not gon na use until August so we they did it August time for us so but we did n't use Servowarm cos it had blown up , they just disconnected it for us , so we used the ho the immersion heater |
| 23 | He took us inside and introduced us to Kjell-Arne , a lanky , shy youth who worked for him and was told to make coffee , and Tove , the kennel girl . |
| 24 | Her mum came down the street steaming from the chip shop , and she rushed us inside and got me to make a pot of tea while she shared them all out between the three of us , and we all sat round their fire eating them . |
| 25 | Er , I ca n't say that I , I , I , I know they did do that yes , but I ca n't say that it er it interfered with us much and I ca n't er , ev ever think of anybody , you know wh sort of talking about it like in any respect . |
| 26 | Christ God dealt with the problem which spoiled his image in us and he has to do it because of fundamental thing , he 's got ta do it from the centre , you know you can get an apple , an ordinary apple and you can polish it up and you can have it so that it 's bright and glistening and the red is almost you know it , it , it , it almost dazzles you the shining on it , it 's got a real good polish on the skin , but inside , there 's a grub , and all the polishing in the world does n't get rid of the grub , and you see that 's so often what we do , we polish and polish away on the outside , that 's gon na make us better but it 's only skin deep because inside the grub is having a field day , he 's having a party of all party 's , he 's got an whole apple to himself and the grub of sin in your life and in my life is having , has a field day and we polish the outside and we try and make it look good and we be we become presentable and there like the apple on the market stall it looks good , it looks tremendous until you take a bite out of it and you see in the bit that you 've bitten there 's a , there 's a hole going through and you wonder where the grub is , is it in the bit that 's left or in the bit that you 've eaten and this is just like sin you see in our lives and so God in Christ he did n't deal with the outside bit , he did n't bother trying to make our conditions better , he did n't bother trying to work on the outside , that 's the difference between the gospel and social work and there 's nothing wrong with social work , it 's just that it 's going , it 's coming from the wrong end , it starts on the outside , it will educate people if we give them better housing , if we give them better circumstances , if we give them better wages , now all these things are right and that we should have them , but that does n't make any difference , you see , the person is a sinner , all he becomes if you educate him is an educated sinner , if you give him a huge pay rise all he becomes is a rich sinner , if you put him in a palace all he becomes is er a sinner living in a palace , it does n't make any basic difference to the person . |
| 27 | In reality , of course , nothing makes us better or worse than anyone else . |
| 28 | ‘ 'Appens to all of us sooner or later , ’ she said . |
| 29 | All our acts , he thought , come back upon us sooner or later . |
| 30 | ‘ Well , Ali , ’ said Owen , ‘ you have helped us already and I am grateful . |