Example sentences of "what be [prep] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ When what 's between us is so personal ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ We 've just been agreeing that what 's between us is personal , have n't we ? ’ |
| 3 | We 're free to indulge what 's between us , to let it run its course , so why not accept the inevitable ? ’ |
| 4 | You know I ca n't — I ca n't control what 's between us . |
| 5 | ‘ What 's above us , Sir John ? ’ |
| 6 | I phoned me friend up you know and erm on Friday and asked and she said you do n't sound very well , I said I 've got a headache I said I 've had a headache every , cos I 've been on a diet and she turned round and said , she said you know she says it 's funny she says erm , you know what 's with us , what 's it with ? |
| 7 | Considering what 's against us ? |
| 8 | We are living in a world of dwindling timber resources , and Gerwyn believes that we are going to have to turn back to using what 's around us . |
| 9 | And I think you can see why I call it pessimistic because , basically it says in the Anglican prayer book , there is no good in us , what 's in us is , is bad , in the sense of anti-social egoistic , and if people are going to cooperate and if there 's gon na be social order , then as it were , it has to be imposed on them . |
| 10 | What is without us is also within . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ What is between us is — ’ |
| 12 | Having a sentimental attachment for them , I can not resist mentioning the Cotswold Hills of western England where the formation still quaintly known by William Smith 's original name of the " Inferior Oolite " , reaches what is for us the tremendous thickness of about 100 feet . |
| 13 | It is our long-held view that foreign spent nuclear fuel should not be sent to Dounreay for storage , let alone for reprocessing , because it breaches what is for us a fundamental principle : that the responsibility for the disposal of spent nuclear fuel should lie with the reactor operators . |
| 14 | So we begin to put pressure on the child , and the child reacts because he ca n't appreciate what we 're trying to get across to him , and so we get a sort of stalemate situation , where the teacher , be it a professional teacher or a parent , is pressurizing the child to understand something which appears quite simplistic , and the child is responding quite deadly , because he can not focus , he can not conceptualize , what is to us a very simple concept . |
| 15 | As the Upanishads state : ‘ What is within us is also without . |
| 16 | This means that our assessments of what is on offer are not governed solely by what is before us . |
| 17 | It will not be perfect , it will not be what I should like , but it will be better than what is before us — better in terms of our particular problem — and I hope that it will deal entirely with the discrimination . |
| 18 | Well , we do see a good deal of what is around us and not simply whatever it is that we happen to be staring at . |
| 19 | For many people life today is such a bustling affair with so many things to get through in the day that it is not difficult to forget to be aware of what is around us . |
| 20 | Moralists able only to think of autonomy , of the active imposition of the will on what is round us , miss the essential values of receptivity , of contemplation , of openness to the splendours of what is not oneself . |
| 21 | Finally , as if rewarding us for our efforts , Yuri provided us with what was for us the highlight of the day — an impromptu performance ( to a disco beat ) which left us in no doubt at all as to why this tall , handsome athlete is Russia 's leading ballet super-Tsar ! |
| 22 | I 'm also grateful that you did n't … you did n't take advantage of what was between us six years ago . |
| 23 | ‘ When you 've been so resentful of what was between us — so ashamed of it ? |
| 24 | It all seemed too important for that : a warning of what was inside us all as human beings and of what we must avoid at all costs . |