Example sentences of "[that] [pron] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | If it is so for choices of means it is so for choices of ends ; and it is one of the greatest temptations to irrationality that nothing compels us to acknowledge in the realm of ends what we can not afford to deny in the realm of means . |
| 2 | ‘ And he just stood there , ’ Emlyn concluded , ‘ looking so desperate that I gave us both an enormous gin and tonic ! ’ |
| 3 | On the other hand , we can never possess such a certainty that someone loves us . |
| 4 | But it is precisely the possibility of being wrong in believing that someone loves us that makes it appropriate to talk in this context of trust . |
| 5 | Ah , well I was explaining that to er the woman that cleans , you know that she told us we can wash ourself , you know . |
| 6 | ‘ Yes , I know that she deceived us as to who she is , but how could you believe a word Lord Blaine said about her , and she such a good hardworking girl ? |
| 7 | It seems that the author has deliberately left things vague by choosing the intransitive verb construction : that she wants us to have the delicately ironic impression of a deferential , high-class shop in which doors , as it were , open and shut almost of their own accord . |
| 8 | How if she chooses this moment and this audience to make it known that she visits us only out of pure charity , that what lies in her handsome reliquary is in reality the body of the young man who committed murder to secure her for Shrewsbury , and himself died by accident , in circumstances that made it vital he should vanish ? |
| 9 | ‘ She said she was sorry and that she loved us and she just did n't realise what she had put all the people through . |
| 10 | This woman I 'd never seen , darker than me , darker than mum , my height but four times as big every other way , her hair hanging down in a big shaggy mane that looked as if she cut it herself once a year , big wooden earrings in her ears and a dress down to the floor with embroidery all over it and her feet stuffed into ugly shoes that were made of leather She told us that She wanted us to admire them , because this was a big day for her , Auntie Muriel had got dressed up to come to the city and see her sister and her sister 's child . |
| 11 | One of our most faithful customers has written to say that she sees us a ‘ a crusade gathering strength as time marches on ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It was only in the last years that you knew us . ’ |
| 13 | I expect to double the yield of Tobacco this harvest , but I am sensible that you desire us to put more land under the cane , this sugar trade being the more profitable at home and the Negroes most apt to its cultivation . |
| 14 | And why it 's vital that you help us to stop it . |
| 15 | We thank you that you sought us out and you demonstrated your great love for us , and you reached out and rescued us saved us . |
| 16 | I see from my files that you asked us to reserve a copy of the OALDCE 3/e computer tape for your the University of Edinburgh . |
| 17 | And then that 's the one that you gave us copies cos you had you said you were gon na get five |
| 18 | Thank you , Father , for the fellowship that you want us to enjoy in the church . |
| 19 | Lord Jesus , thank you for a nice sleep , thank you for another day , please help us to do the kind of things that you want us to do , prayer for Christopher to behave at school , help him to do his best and for daddy at work , for Tim and I as we stay at home , help us to know the kind of things we do and this afternoon when grandma comes we 'll spare the time for her as well , Amen . |
| 20 | I says no I ca n't , he says it 's not very far , I said it 's not the distance that bothers me it 's the fact that you want us to sit there till eleven o'clock at night and not get paid for it , he says yeah but if you want to say something , I says I 'd say something if I thought we 'd be backed on it , but we 're not , oh I 'm not going anywhere to be if I 'm not being paid |
| 21 | Where 's these comments that you want us to have a look at . |
| 22 | What we need from you is really a specific proposal about the kinds of groups and individuals that you want us to sit down with . |
| 23 | SUZANNE WILKINSON , Consumer Research Editor , reviews the subjects — hot and cold — that you wanted us to investigate this year . |
| 24 | And then , turning its head to look round the workshops , it said , ‘ We do not ask of you that you give us your slaves , Robemaker , for it is vital that the Looms are kept weaving . |
| 25 | I was reading in the , in er , in that paper that you give us , you know , I was reading soaps and that |
| 26 | ‘ Do I detect from your tone , Chief Superintendent , that you think us a couple of queers ? |
| 27 | erm and it was so successful that they asked us again to do one from the United States |
| 28 | The principles of inference by which we are to move from basic to non-basic beliefs are fallible , in the sense that they take us sometimes from true beliefs to false ones . |
| 29 | Ten minutes indoors in the small jug , and they all begin to open , sometimes so fast that they make us laugh . |
| 30 | ‘ If we comb through our stories and one encounters with wild whales and dolphins , we find that they seem to hang together along a shining thread — that whales and dolphins know what they are doing , that their actions are purposeful , and stunningly specific to the occasion , that they intend us no harm , that they are aware . |