Example sentences of "[pron] [conj] [vb -s] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | To me that puts us in a difficult position when trying Germans , whose crime was obeying their superiors ’ orders , whatever our horror at what those orders led to . ’ |
| 2 | ’ So , after appearing to settle for third-person narrative , he doubles back on himself and leaves us to make what we can of an omniscient author who is bound hand and foot to a far from omniscient protagonist . |
| 3 | But our deepest fears should be reserved for everything that keeps us from becoming more human , more personal , or more spiritual . |
| 4 | Yet I 'm still grateful for my religious upbringing because the religious sense is our relationship with everything that surrounds us . |
| 5 | We pretend that we never think of everything that makes us what we are . ’ |
| 6 | Weather is something that effects us all , so Charlie and her team will use the latest technology to bring 21st Century forecasting to your screen , 8 years early . |
| 7 | ‘ The principle is that once we find we can do something that makes us feel good , we repeat it , ’ he explains . |
| 8 | Why should we succumb to something that makes us lose our logic and turns our brains to marshmallow ? |
| 9 | ‘ The longevity of these two companies is something that makes us special , ’ says Anderson . |
| 10 | It is the demand to feel better , for one of the most basic injunctions of all is the one that tells us tautologically , that worthwhile people do not feel worthless . |
| 11 | And somebody said to me at the last children 's mass , thank you , you 're the only one that tells us we 're not needed . |
| 12 | But of the two jubilees it is the one that gives us more to ponder . |
| 13 | Well , so we do , about Handel and the way he makes the best effect ( at least on us ) ; but a different kind of historical awareness is needed here , one that puts us into the frame of mind of late eighteenth-century Vienna and its perception of Handel . |
| 14 | The high ball in the air at the back is one that causes us problems . |
| 15 | We can move , of course , change direction , rattle about , but our movement is contained within a larger one that carries us along as inexorably as the wind and current … |
| 16 | Medicine is a powerful system of knowledge , and one that affects us all ; it is therefore illuminating to find that within modern medical thought these fragments continue to be influential . |
| 17 | This element of anticipation of death is therefore one that affects us all if the circumstances warrant it or seem to do so . |
| 18 | What is it that sets us Brits apart so unmistakably ? |
| 19 | Breeding and sex in general were a part of the natural order of things to the people of the old farming community ; and this is another aspect of it that reminds us of its ancient roots . |
| 20 | er , I 'd believe in theory we could because the lease provides us or gives us the opportunity to do so , but we would not go against the wishes of the residence |
| 21 | I 'm here because I believe that we share many objectives and because I know that there 's more that unites us than divides us . |
| 22 | Although there are no plans yet to increase their presence in the Gulf , a defence official said last night : ‘ We are ready to deal with anything that confronts us . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I think in order to improve relationships , an awareness that the task before us in the Kingdom of God is greater than anything that divides us as denominations , is helpful . |
| 24 | The more usual alternative however is to explain our discovery as being due to a certain causal process , something within us that makes us behave in a certain way . |
| 25 | At its best it satisfies the sense of hubris in all of us and helps us to forget the inevitable contrast between real and ideal , in human love as in every other human impulse . |
| 26 | It traps us and pins us down in time , urging us to agree with Kierkegaard , that if life can only be lived forwards , it can only be understood backwards . |
| 27 | So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) . |
| 28 | The implication of this for theology is that if it is really theology , it can only take place as God conveys his own Word to us and enables us to hear it ; but the Word itself always remains his and not ours . |
| 29 | And equally it is the Spirit who liberates Christ 's risen power in us and enables us to share in his triumph . |
| 30 | Even if someone else comes up to us and tips us off about a possible shoplifter we can only act if we see the person steal again , ’ she adds . |