Example sentences of "[adj] [conj] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is rising so high that makes us afraid , he thought , lest we fall or are cast down . |
| 2 | WHAT is it about we British that makes us pay millions of pounds to actors who have never heard a shot fired in anger , while we ignore the heroes whose deeds they are paid to portray ? |
| 3 | WHAT is it about we British that makes us pay millions of pounds to actors who have never heard a shot fired in anger , while we ignore the heroes whose deeds they are paid to portray ? |
| 4 | ‘ It was only intended as a short-term measure , ’ Schaffer objected , ‘ to keep the valley clear and give us the best possible chance for a manhunt . ’ |
| 5 | In the legal context , we need to feel that the prohibitions of laws , in the way they are defined and in the way they are applied , are justifiable and influence us all equally ( or , again , if they do not , that they discriminate on acceptable grounds ) . |
| 6 | Failing that , make Punch a monthly instead of a weekly and charge us more . |
| 7 | We try to rotate all the jobs on site between the eight of us — it makes life more interesting and gives us more flexibility . |
| 8 | Elizabeth was brave and helped us ; her sweet smile gave us some happiness in the unhappy days after my mother 's death . |
| 9 | It is interesting to note that they come from the same stable that brought us the national insurance surcharge . |
| 10 | However , most of what they say has been very constructive and it is taking on board these improvements where possible that give us a better service to our customers . |
| 11 | Erm , right that gets us to the er performance analysis , and er graphs . |
| 12 | The composite that reached us was not attractive : to wear gloves , to redecorate and to pursue vicious joyless affairs under false names in highway motels . |
| 13 | In The Fountain the Boy 's offer of sonship had been similarly rejected ; perhaps Matthew is peculiarly honest and telling us that there are no substitutes , but we still have the ‘ sigh of pain' and the persistence of the memory to account for . |
| 14 | Our first request was completely ignored but after repeated less polite challenges and several near collisions , coupled with a threat to call in the British Navy , the skipper became more amenable and followed us reluctantly into Folkestone . |
| 15 | What I liked about it was that though it was biting sarcasm , the way he spoke it gave you the impression not of a man who was bitter in any way , but of a man who pitied the members of the government for being so rotten and pitied us for being governed by such scum . |
| 16 | She was much disgusted and sent us a postcard saying she was developing webbed feet . |
| 17 | Female sexuality and reproduction were seen particularly as representative of the mortality that separates us from the eternal and binds us to temporal corruptible life . |
| 18 | But though we might have to plough through the politics and suffer with Dennis as we do so , the book still ultimately gets the accept right and takes us out promiscuously to Korea and the Cape , Russia , America , Israel and Morocco . |
| 19 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 20 | It forces us to see man in total and forces us to recognise the limitations of a positivist view of the social sciences . |
| 21 | We never rested five minutes that he did not fall asleep and gave us a little nasal music , and which hindered me nothing so fully as I wished to have done . |
| 22 | The natural physiological mechanisms put us in a state of alert and prepare us for what is called the fight-or-flight response . |
| 23 | The effect from the Sunday Express article is just beginning to wane slightly and a boost now would be absolutely terrific and see us right through to Christmas . |
| 24 | Q : We paid for our holiday in Paphos , Cyprus , in January , but 36 hours before we were due to leave our tour operator , Saga Holidays , rang to tell us the Roman Hotel in Paphos was double-booked and to offer us the first week at another hotel which was , in our opinion , inferior . |
| 25 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 26 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 27 | Or just complete and send us the application form overleaf , and we shall send your membership card and pack within 28 days . |
| 28 | Backing up Bedu admirably were Rita and Jean , who worked hard and paced us well , so that we could still walk after hours of exercise . |
| 29 | To have won either award would have been a major achievement ; to have won both Environmental and Export Awards in the same year is remarkable and gives us great satisfaction . |
| 30 | Some used electric sticks , some beat us over the head with handcuffs , some kicked us , some pulled and pushed us , some beat us with rifles . |