Example sentences of "the [noun pl] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Acts gives us many examples of Christian people bearing witness to Jesus , in particular his death and resurrection , to soldiers and governors , prince-lings and mediums , crowds and individuals . |
| 2 | ‘ But all the experts told us to stay at Bart 's . |
| 3 | ‘ The experts assure us that symptoms occur between one and four hours after this particular substance has been ingested . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ It is easier for the institutions to give us records of all accounts rather than trying to strip out just those accounts which paid above a certain level of interest . |
| 5 | The world is at last waking up to the dangers threatening us all . |
| 6 | Burrows and Hunter 's general conclusion is that " from the views given us by local authorities the 1988 Housing Act 's strengthening of the anti-harassment laws have made prosecutions slightly easier for local authorities but , in practice , there is often a failure to prosecute for a range of non-legal reasons " ( p. 41 ) . |
| 7 | Talus president , Steve Sarich says ‘ its like we 've been dropped on a different planet and all the Martians love us ’ — surely sales of NeXT boxes are n't that rare , or are they ? |
| 8 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 9 | So we 'd better get back behind our lines , because if the Germans catch us I ca n't believe they 'll invite us to join 'em for tea and crumpet . ’ |
| 10 | On 4 June , the day the Dunkirk evacuation ended , he wrote to the Chiefs of Staff : ‘ if it is so easy for the Germans to invade us … why should it be … impossible for us to do anything of the same kind to him ? ’ |
| 11 | The Germans left us to pull the last rope down and headed off without us , leaving us temporarily disenchanted with international fraternity . |
| 12 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 13 | Studying the graphs helps us analyze the performance of the component , the problems the component faces given certain types of speech input , and the problems the component will present to higher levels of processing . |
| 14 | The notes tell us that all the music was recorded in straight takes , and that no subsequent editing has taken place . |
| 15 | No timescale was placed on the proposals to limit US military influence and the USA called on the JSP to clarify its position . |
| 16 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 17 | For instance , The Times informed us that the ‘ unmarried office manager … kept her lunchtime appointment to have a contraceptive coil fitted ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 18 | Two , two , one and , and the groups tell us who the representatives are , and I , I wo n't serve on the committee , I think I 'll er , that I 'll , you 've given me enough to do anyway , there 's a limit , and unlike our officer , I do have to do some cooking . |
| 19 | How do you measure the contribution of organizations like Canadian University Service Overseas or the Methodist Church , who bent the rules to allow us to mail their supporters with our advertising literature ? . |
| 20 | In the evenings the merchants invited us to join them as they sat chatting on their cots in the middle of the courtyard . |
| 21 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 22 | ‘ There just were n't the windshifts to give us leverage , ’ Conner admitted . |
| 23 | ‘ We can have the Jheri-Curls chasin' us all the time tryin' to cut our hair and throw chemicals in it ! ’ |
| 24 | Madeleine came up to see me last Monday for a couple of days and arrived with a sore throat too , so she had a well deserved rest after the excesses of their very social Christmas and life and also encouraged me , the weather and the throats keeping us indoors , to do some MUCH needed turning out . |
| 25 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 26 | This thirty-seventh year of my marriage is the happiest yet , and hopefully the festivities will echo in some way through the generations to follow us . |
| 27 | The starships passed us by . |
| 28 | Which is the or the fourteen inch television colour telly I know because , the blokes let us down ! |
| 29 | The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses . |
| 30 | The writer of the letter to the Hebrews tells us what God 's love for us means : |