Example sentences of "us [adv] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Even the least of these would give us vastly more sediment than we normally seem to find preserved for us in our stratigraphical record . |
| 2 | It was hot and the demonstration went on much too long , but it gave us all some idea of how caring the teachers were and it was a practical illustration of what the school was trying to do . |
| 3 | Provided America does n't pull out of the alliance completely , that ought to give us all some protection . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Anne , bring us all some coffee please , and ring Brian Harley wherever he 's billetted . ’ |
| 5 | Miss Mates will make us all some tea , give you some sweet biscuits , and only when I am fully satisfied that you are fit again shall I allow you to leave . |
| 6 | I mean , this next plan will also take us down that path . |
| 7 | yeah it was running us down this morning cos Britain something something something . |
| 8 | It is the overall speed of the articulation which was so surprising , and which caused us so much difficulty at the stage of transcription . |
| 9 | Some £150,000 will be allocated to various recreational schemes in London , most of which will be in boroughs through which the course runs ; boroughs which give us so much help . |
| 10 | Not the colour supplement or phot-album idealized view , but the ‘ warts and all ’ closeness to others that can bring us so much happiness — and pain . |
| 11 | " The judge asked how we could possibly do any more with the garden , and it 's true that the only way forward is by making small changes , which we like to do as it gives us so much enjoyment . " |
| 12 | We must also make it crystal clear how much shopkeepers , who gave us so much flak when we introduced the business rate and the community charge , will now be paying . |
| 13 | Our Spanish friend Juan , who had given us so much time , had to work next day , so we needed a replacement to help tackle the bureaucratic process of preparing the body for despatch to Britain . |
| 14 | And if , in a woman-centred , woman-positive , pro-woman environment , women discover their affiliation and affection for other women , which raises critical questions about friendship and solidarity and love , and why we spend so much time and emotional energy on relationships with men which cause us so much pain . |
| 15 | FRANKMOBILE : A certain tour van that gave us so much pleasure and pain during the first six months of this year . |
| 16 | Clearly , I am focusing on the idea that it is the residues of bad experiences that lurk as bad objects in our psyche that cause us so much trouble because they have to be avoided at all costs and so rarely get modified by experience . |
| 17 | Olazabal 's dislike of US Open courses and their preparation is well-known , but he said today : ‘ This course offers us much more hope than in previous years . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The listing will give us much more flexibility and will also enable us to use the market for capital raising exercises if necessary . ’ |
| 19 | So we need , it 's simply a question of pulling in on the reasons for this , if it 's maternity , it 's suspension , it gives us much more understanding than simply globally assuming everybody who 's away is sick . |
| 20 | She writes a letter to us just this morning — she is ill , she can not sing tonight ! ’ |
| 21 | This fact was disastrous to us , as we had only brought with us just enough food for a one night camping trip , with the minimum of emergency rations , and we had eaten most of this . |
| 22 | The pressure will be on us more this time but it does n't worry me . |
| 23 | It was too cold to stand and stare , and the wind kept buffeting us dangerously each time we tried to gaze across at the Ocean . |
| 24 | His resignation letter declared that " the course of the war threatens to distance us further each day from the objectives fixed by the UN " . |
| 25 | They 'll be reporting back to us later this week on how they coped without a car and with their views on how public transport filled the gap — or not , in ’ The Road Ahead ’ . |
| 26 | It seems to us natural that love should be the commonest theme of serious imaginative literature : but a glance at classical antiquity or at the Dark Ages at once shows us that what we took for " nature " is really a special state of affairs , which will probably have an end , and which certainly had a beginning … |
| 27 | Isambard broke stillness and tension together , saying with careful serenity , and to the hall in general : ‘ Lucky for us both that intent and act are sometimes so far apart . |
| 28 | It took us both some time to wake up to the fact that the world did n't owe us a living . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ But first I 'll get us both some tea . ’ |
| 30 | Bunny joined me at the bar and bought us both another drink . |