Example sentences of "[noun pl] [pron] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two voices I want us to concentrate on are ‘ the laughing voice ’ and ‘ the Gothic voice ’ . |
| 2 | Fortunately , however , most of them are closely related to others , and the separate characteristics which concern us are relatively few in number . |
| 3 | We acted , sang , danced — hoping always for temperate weather , dreading the sudden heat waves which lost us audiences as surely as rain and snow kept them at home — burlesques with preposterous titles ( Very Little Hamlet , The Vicar of Wideawakefield ) , comedies , farces . |
| 4 | We invented this game after investigating the latest scientific research into pheromones , the sex hormones which help us find and identify our partners . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It is not just the lack of manners which appalls us , but the sheer bad timing . |
| 7 | We work with kids from schools which treat us properly . |
| 8 | Where did you learn the words which summon us ? ’ |
| 9 | Er if , if there is a sufficient er indication in these words an indication , a pointer as I say , if there 's a transparency in these words which enables us to see through to the truth then our formulation of it does n't matter all that much . |
| 10 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 11 | We can not and never will understand this place appointed for our second race , for we are implicated without choice in the catastrophe of the copulations which splatter us into existence . |
| 12 | By 35 , our faces have undergone structural changes , so that the hair-styles which suited us throughout our 20s may suddenly seem severe and make us look older . |
| 13 | It is the behaviour of the indicators which enables us to unravel the conceptual and definitional ambiguities . |
| 14 | ‘ As far as we were concerned those are the sessions which got us excited in the first place and apparently it was how a lot of people discovered us also . ’ |
| 15 | When I was working in London , we often got clients who blamed us if their pets died . |
| 16 | British Airways staff are fantastic , whatever class you travel , and plied Kenneth with enough booze to soften the effect of two Sun journalists who approached us for a story and picture after we 'd been airborne for about eight hours . |
| 17 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 18 | Not the bomb craters in the road , not the checkpoint guards who wave us on . |
| 19 | Please pass on our thanks to all the Mums , Dads and kids who gave us such a great present for our involvement with the creche over the past couple of years . |
| 20 | They saw us just like we were jungle animals , jungle animals they treat us . |
| 21 | For my rent , for the funds they advance us — ’ |
| 22 | " It 's exactly like those fairy-tale books they terrified us with . |
| 23 | In all these respects he reminds us today of Schleiermacher . |
| 24 | The rewards for those working in BP come in the quality of the opportunities it gives us for the future . |
| 25 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 26 | And the traders themselves told us that , by calling weekly and establishing a personal relationship with their customers , they can rely on collecting debts from people who might not reliably send off payments , say to an H P firm . |
| 27 | the schizophrenic will clearly have a far more intense experience of any given present of the world than we do , since our own present is always part of some larger set of projects which force us selectively to focus our perceptions . |
| 28 | There are just six fundamental interpersonal skills which give us a process that is equally applicable in ill situations . |
| 29 | Moreover , if the moral judgment which we require to make is one which involves our own personal interest we might reasonably look to the relevant law as representing a less partial view of the matter than our own ; for , without attributing to the law a non-partisan impartiality at variance with most available knowledge about the actual political and legal processes , it might still happen to be less partial and more informed than we are when making judgments about cases which affect us closely . |
| 30 | We will find ourselves missing golden opportunities , getting ourselves involved in time-consuming , time-wasting activities which distract us from our main goals . |