Example sentences of "us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get an idea of the profit made , let us compare Turner 's prices against those actually charged by the funeral furnisher in Chadwick 's 1843 Report for a simple earth-burial funeral in the metropolis . |
| 2 | Let us compare this with situations in which the issue of race has been involved . |
| 3 | Let us compare that with our experience in the EC . |
| 4 | For one more example , let us compare two terms which will be familiar to many readers ; when the phrase logical theory is used , an obvious difference of meaning is involved , depending on whether we are talking about a theory which has the characteristic of being logical ( with ascriptive interpretation of the adjective ) or about a theory which is concerned with aspects of logic ( associative use ) . |
| 5 | Last Sunday I sat in a cold room with my daughter , the two of us reviling the malign fate which had robbed us of Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea , our weekly TV fix . |
| 6 | We were following a long , straight road in visibility of about twenty yards , all of us hanging out of the windows in a vain attempt to spot landmarks , when a ghostly figure loomed up , saluted , and announced in long-suffering tones , ‘ Excuse me sir , Mr Mills , you 're on the main runway ! ’ |
| 7 | They kept us hanging around for a while . |
| 8 | ‘ There 's no point in us hanging around here any longer . |
| 9 | ROS : They 'll have us hanging about till we 're dead . |
| 10 | Soon after , we received a telephone call requesting us to attend a meeting at the Department with the Head of the Directorate of Ancient Monuments and Historic Buildings . |
| 11 | The lord cardinal wished us to attend one more of his interminable banquets — and this is where I made a bad situation worse . |
| 12 | None of us expected it to go to the proportions it has gone to . |
| 13 | None of us expected to see it , but we did . |
| 14 | Christian was one of the few killed in the capture of Rangoon , which had come about more quickly than most of us expected . |
| 15 | None of us expected the hospital workers to save us from Thatcher , and yet they tried harder than most . |
| 16 | ‘ It was n't something either of us expected , perhaps … ’ |
| 17 | ‘ None of us expected the single to take off the way it did , ’ adds Dermot . |
| 18 | We were all of us outcasts ; we were all of us flung out by the Lords of Tara , who were jealous of their lineage and protective of their inheritance . |
| 19 | As adults , however , many of us cripple ourselves with fears of making mistakes , of making a wrong decision , of failing , of feeling embarrassed , of repeating the past . |
| 20 | ‘ Apparently , it is up to us to uphold the high standards of Riverbank . ’ |
| 21 | Of course this 6000 includes some individuals that we picked up more than once ; but by marking the toads we ensured that we counted each one only once each year , and standard marking and recapture techniques enabled us to estimate the size of the population , and the annual rate of mortality and recruitment of newly matured adults to the breeding population . |
| 22 | As detailed in the previous section , using a theoretical framework developed from American research into heroin ‘ epidemics ’ , this formula allowed us to estimate that prevalence was still increasing but that incidence was decreasing . |
| 23 | These enabled us to estimate numbers of resident males aged 11–21 and 22–35 . |
| 24 | Our study allowed us to estimate dose equivalence from the dose response findings with salbutamol and salmeterol . |
| 25 | Household interviews will be conducted and individuals will be asked questions which will be carefully designed to allow us to estimate their valuation of given public transport services . |
| 26 | His hurried journey allows us to estimate a more usual journey as taking about six to eight weeks . |
| 27 | ‘ He told us to wait till he came . ’ |
| 28 | The doctor had n't arrived yet , but another man wrote down Sigarup 's name and village and told us to wait . |
| 29 | When life seems ordinary St James encourages us to wait patiently and joyfully for Christ 's coming and not to lose heart . |
| 30 | As we walked through the gate , Hannah popped out of the byre and asked us to wait until she had finished showing someone else round . |