Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 2 | So , pack your cycle clips and either pick up a brochure from your local travel agent or call us on freephone . |
| 3 | For full details see your travel agent or Call us on 01– |
| 4 | I suppose it was the isolation that gave us such a feeling of camaraderie . " |
| 5 | We have begun to measure these trees , noting characteristics that give us clues to their genetic relationships : these trees , growing under plantation conditions , will eventually tell us whether we really have collected new genes useful to farmers who grow cocoa . |
| 6 | Steven continues : ‘ There 's a complete balancing out of all the different musical influences which enables us to write songs that make us sound like no-one else . |
| 7 | We 're articulate enough to fool ourselves that we 're nice people , but there 's a strong undercurrent to our thinking that encourages us to view people with a disability as lesser , and until we come to terms with that , we will never have a proper support system . |
| 8 | The muddled thinking that makes us claim at least some vague idea of what God is leads us disastrously to thinking that if we say God can not be one kind of thing we must be saying he is the other . |
| 9 | Our limited ambition can , therefore , only be to sustain a reasonable quality of life for ourselves and for those animals that serve us . |
| 10 | It is difficult to resist the conclusion — which Foucault actually denies — that the techniques of discipline and surveillance , of individuation , and the strategies of power-knowledge that subject us , leave us always trapped . |
| 11 | So we were better being turned down until we found a deal that suited us better . ’ |
| 12 | A force that provides us with food and warmth and light … and upon which we 've become very dependent , maybe to our cost . |
| 13 | It is because no institution or individual is proof against the third essential ingredient that makes us what we are — the Zeitgeist , the spirit of the times . |
| 14 | Often we are baffled , because having found love it then eludes us ; there is no permanence , only loss that leaves us wanting . |
| 15 | In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale . |
| 16 | This clearly allows the bilingual audience — and one 's knowledge of a language does not have to be particularly broad for one to know the rude words — to appreciate a pun that tells us much of the character of the fabliau : the essential place of the con in the conte . |
| 17 | It is fear that stops us from living a life of fulfilment . |
| 18 | ‘ It was brilliant to hit the goals that took us to the top , and it 's got to be the best 90 minutes of my career . ’ |
| 19 | For the Stones , satisfaction was the goal : everything would be all ALL RIGHT if we shed the inhibitions that held us back and down . |
| 20 | Because of the potential importance of the association , as well as to overcome methodological limitations of the original study , we analysed data from a prospective study that allowed us to assess the association between dental disease and coronary heart disease . |
| 21 | The madness of all this is constantly illustrated by a jumbled host of fragmentary images that surround us , of body hair and smells and leakings , of panty liners , bikini lines and cellulite . |
| 22 | The mind 's gardens are composed of images that move us emotionally . |
| 23 | They are experiencing what women have always known — that the life-sustaining relationships that enable us to grit our teeth and pick our way through the mess made by men , to endure and to survive , are those we share with other women : our mothers , our sisters , our neighbours and friends . |
| 24 | It was only in the late eighteenth century that spelling became standardised in a way that we would recognise today , and as late as 1900 you can read variant words that surprise us rather — shew for show , for example . |
| 25 | I du n no it was arranged but it was a a small water boat that took us down , the Flying Kestrel . |
| 26 | There 's a rotary chin switch which you depress to activate an amplifier that lets us talk , visor to visor . |
| 27 | Pictures that tells us our Royals ca n't bear to be together … |
| 28 | However , of all the confusions that confront us the rumours alleging that the Hooligan gangs were armed with guns are particularly difficult to unravel , or to state in any balanced way . |
| 29 | For example , Wittgenstein ( 1953 : 132 ) warns that ‘ the confusions that occupy us arise when language is like an engine idling , not when it is doing work ’ . |
| 30 | The majority in the community from which I come would welcome internment at this time , and I can not believe that the integrity of the Roman Catholic community is such that its members would choose this continued slaughter in our Province in preference to removing from the streets those who command and control the violence that besets us . |