Example sentences of "us [conj] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , in a postscript , as if feeling that his measured words had not yet said enough , he added with a sudden note of desperation : ‘ May God preserve us & make us continue to be joy & comfort & wisdom & virtue to each other , my dear , dear , Poole ! ’ |
| 2 | Goreng had given us two guards — whether to protect us or to stop us getting up to mischief I 'm not sure : maybe both . |
| 3 | As we became well known , people kept things for us or told us of toys they had spotted . |
| 4 | The existence of a loving God and the occurrence of some disaster can be made compatible by interpreting the disaster as being sent to try us or to punish us , whichever seems most suited to the situation . |
| 5 | Establishing a positive self-image does not depend on a cheery morale boost , but on appropriating the promises of God and praying and planning expectantly for their outworking in the situations in which God has already placed us or challenged us to become involved . |
| 6 | It might destroy part of the ozone layer , which would permit the sun 's ultra-violet radiation either to tan us or fry us , depending upon how large a hole had been blasted in the stratosphere : it might equally well cause the onset of a nuclear winter , which is so popular a topic among both scientists and laymen these days . |
| 7 | Her father , Stan Silberbauer , said yesterday from his daughter 's hospital bedside : ‘ She does not see us , hear us or know us . |
| 8 | With luck , nobody would notice us or suspect us . |
| 9 | It 's not entertaining us or making us feel comfortable . |
| 10 | er , I 'd believe in theory we could because the lease provides us or gives us the opportunity to do so , but we would not go against the wishes of the residence |
| 11 | I 'm here because I believe that we share many objectives and because I know that there 's more that unites us than divides us . |
| 12 | The more usual alternative however is to explain our discovery as being due to a certain causal process , something within us that makes us behave in a certain way . |
| 13 | When our appearance is being changed — in the hairdresser 's , beauty salon or fitting room — there is great vulnerability , and if we ask for assistance we are giving others considerable power to judge us , alter us and witness us stripped of normal dignity . |
| 14 | At its best it satisfies the sense of hubris in all of us and helps us to forget the inevitable contrast between real and ideal , in human love as in every other human impulse . |
| 15 | We start to notice that people look after us and protect us , especially if we 're girls . |
| 16 | " I expect they thought they would be down here in a moment to indulge in carnal conversation with us and to murder us , " replied Miriam rather cruelly , becoming blunter than ever . |
| 17 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 18 | When struck by shyness , we think that other people are very interested in us and evaluating us . |
| 19 | The horse 's behaviour may be modified by trying to get it to have confidence in us and to like us ; and by keeping our own aggression under control , so that we do n't arouse the horse 's aggressive instinct . |
| 20 | If you want in Colossians chapter one in verse twenty seven , it 's , it 's given again very simply , again can I use J B Phillips , he puts it like this , he says the secret is simply this , Christ in you yes he says Christ in you , bringing with him the hope of all the glorious things to come , so what God does he comes in to this situation that 's marred that 's warped , that 's twisted and he comes in by himse , Jesus Christ comes into it , he becomes the central point , the focal point and that circle , it starts to get dealt with , that marred twisted like , it does n't happen being like that , we knew creation straight away , we do n't have to work at that , but he , as we allow him to dwell in us and to work out his purpose , he restores that relationship with God and God starts to fashion us , he starts to work on us and bring us back into how he originally created us . |
| 21 | When we arrived I was very worried but the whistle had just gone and my teacher Mrs Edwards came out to get us and show us where our class room was . |
| 22 | The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses . |
| 23 | We did have er , judges and censors who would judge us and reward us if we d did good and punish us if we did evil . |
| 24 | It traps us and pins us down in time , urging us to agree with Kierkegaard , that if life can only be lived forwards , it can only be understood backwards . |
| 25 | But he looked across to us and saw us and then he really cheesed off with me we he di he virtually sat |
| 26 | But before we could reach the Pacific , a violent storm hit us and drove us to the north-west of Tasmania . |
| 27 | Perhaps this surrender to the invading power of God 's Spirit , this willingness for him to take us and break us and use us , IS one of the prime lessons which the charismatic movement throughout the churches is teaching us at the present time . |
| 28 | ‘ Heal us and reveal us , take us beyond racism ! |
| 29 | The Bishop designate 's secretary received us and asked us into his presence . |
| 30 | Right well it came up when War on Want wrote to us and asked us to affiliate and we had a brief chat about it and felt that there are many groups that we could affiliate to . |