Example sentences of "us in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Therefore the winds , piping to us in vain , |
| 2 | And imagine us in our world as ants on the leg of a table . |
| 3 | I had prepared an unimaginative tunafish salad for the two of us in order to show off my new personal austerity programme . |
| 4 | There were only three divisions in the city — east , west , and central — and each of us in our own division knew we were the élite ; for just as the men in the west were certain they were best , so the men from the east remained convinced of their own superiority . |
| 5 | In effect , the alternatives presented to the ‘ counter-culture ’ by the liminal experience were also available to some of us in our marginal police world , and we were forced to see that those concepts of order and disorder we had once taken almost as the natural way of things were in fact only one model for society ; a single framework for social action ! |
| 6 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 7 | ‘ Now , we are asking you ’ — he stressed the word with some irony — ‘ we are asking you to join with us in a petition to the government for relief from the Act . |
| 8 | He , like many others , was to learn the truth of the Talmud that , ‘ our passions are like travellers : at first they make a brief stay ; then they are like guests , who visit often ; and then they turn into tyrants , who hold us in their power . ’ |
| 9 | Same year as us in college . |
| 10 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 11 | Before us in the air |
| 12 | ‘ I 'll listen to Alastair Cook and join you later , ’ Harry told us in the morning , obviously intent on his Sunday ritual . |
| 13 | As we lost height , just the two of us in a landscape of dazzling white , so Liena regained strength and interest in the day , and we would stop every now and then to sit on our rucksacks in the snow that coated the glacier and gaze in awe at the beauty of the scene . |
| 14 | Among serious writers and readers in the United States ( as distinct from shallow and modish Anglophiles mostly around New York ) , it is taken for granted that Pound 's caustic dismissal of us in 1929 was justified , and that nothing has happened in the forty-five years since to alter that picture significantly . |
| 15 | ‘ The handicapped reach out to us in simplicity and trust … rejecting them we create a cynical selfish world for us to live in … we are walking a path which after Nuremberg it was said we would never be walking again , ’ she said to loud applause and a standing ovation . |
| 16 | Mr Kinnock has made the change all right , and , since he told us in his speech that he has acted with candour , we must believe him . |
| 17 | But those of us in the recycling business must take issue with the statement from the British Plastics Federation that recycled plastics can not safely be used to package food . |
| 18 | ‘ They kept us in a marshalling area surrounded by tanks being repaired . |
| 19 | They are looking at job-weighting , concepts of ‘ stewardship ’ and performance measurement in the knowledge that greater flexibility in pay ( and recruitment ) will be crucial factors in escaping from what Mr Montagu calls ‘ the rigidities that have bedevilled us in the past ’ . |
| 20 | He says : ‘ There are great forces at work , and they 've already embraced us in a world market , they 're sweeping us towards a European destiny . |
| 21 | Should we just enjoy the things that touch us in a painting or should it spur us on to learn more ? |
| 22 | The situation embarrasses us in committee . |
| 23 | It has put us in the position of villains , whereas the Secretary of State is the villain because he will not pay . |
| 24 | During the Thirties when we were all in the big bands , I remember the really fiery jazz clarinet he used to play with us in the Bag O' Nails , just about the first jazz club in Britain . ’ |
| 25 | But he added : ‘ It is not evident that most of our partners often perceive us in the same constructive light as we see ourselves . ’ |
| 26 | The album pulled a few Manhattan fads ( salsa , jazz , R&B ) into snappy pop figures and also revealed a newly flexible capacity in Jackson 's voice ; previously hard-edged and impatient , it could now sit comfortably on the grand slopes of a ballad like ‘ Breaking Us In Two ’ , a Top 20 hit in America . |
| 27 | As Terry Butcher admitted afterwards , Peter Shilton 's goalkeeping ‘ kept us in the World Cup ’ . |
| 28 | Our inability to celebrate death takes the flavour from our food and leaves us in a state of wilfully maintained childhood with nursery tastes to match . |
| 29 | Mr Healey — the best leader Labour never had , and a man of such substance as the party no longer possesses — was regarding , from under shaggy eyebrows , the large and rollicking volume of his autobiography , just published , which lay on the table between us in his hotel suite . |
| 30 | Either we attack the enemy positions , or they are going to attack us in strength . |