Example sentences of "[conj] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The formality of the dining-room furnishings seemed at first to change his mood from ease to starch , but it appeared to me after a short while that he was troubled rather by indecision as to which side I was now on , them or us . |
| 2 | ‘ You or us ? ’ |
| 3 | Bob Roberts himself is a monster never quite accessible to the cameras or us , vilifiable only by off-the-cuff remarks ( ‘ Do n't take crack , kids … it 's a ghetto drug ’ ) , and opposed only by Bugs Raplin ( Esposito ) , a wired outsider-hack linking him to every scandal of the '80s in a string of fact-filled rants . |
| 4 | All of that placed him very safely above London 's poor manual labourers — but it should not persuade either him or us that he had achieved social parity with the genteel and leisured classes . |
| 5 | It 's them or us , is n't it ? |
| 6 | And if we recognise our true position as skilled labourers performing with more or less ability a given portion of a comp 's duties , it would be utterly absurd for you to propose , or us to expect , equal remuneration with men which I suppose is what you mean by insisting on getting the true value of our labour . |
| 7 | Or us , eating |
| 8 | ‘ Not about you or us , ma'am . |
| 9 | I hope that you , Mr. Deputy Speaker , will consider it in order if I state precisely what that £1 billion could mean to those or us who live in the Network SouthEast region . |
| 10 | ‘ We urge him to contact his family or us so people can help him . |
| 11 | And was that minus one just the western side or us as well ? |
| 12 | and this is why military strategies have always said we were gon na get we could hold them for a year , two years maybe three , but in the preventional warfare we would start loosing and military strategy have always said along that it would probably be somebody like France or us that would first use the nuclear weapon |
| 13 | And was that minus one just the Western side or us as well ? |
| 14 | There is no evidence that he thinks they can be argued out of their scepticism , but , since they have convinced neither him nor us , this is no cause for concern . |
| 15 | You have no more freedom than us . ’ |
| 16 | We never seemed to see anything strange in the fact that he was maybe 10 years older than us . |
| 17 | Whereas the chimpanzees ' warfare and cannibalism changed for ever her rose-coloured idea of them as somehow ‘ better ’ than us . |
| 18 | We were up on the top floor and Ralph Horton came up to listen to us and was impressed , although I think he was more impressed with David than us . |
| 19 | ‘ He is wealthy and he does n't eat better than us and his father works in his garden ’ was a comment tinged with admiration , but dominated nonetheless by the thought that a man so obsessed did not lead the full life . |
| 20 | ‘ If for any reason the runners were able to go faster than us in the marathon , I 'm sure they would organise it differently for them . ’ |
| 21 | There will always be people who own more than us as well as plenty who own less than us . |
| 22 | There will always be people who own more than us as well as plenty who own less than us . |
| 23 | No matter how sorry we may feel for ourselves at times , there are always people worse off than us . |
| 24 | And our chief must be a bigger rogue than us all — and ruthless with it , when need calls . |
| 25 | They seemed silly and childish and so much less wise than us who really did live in a drab and depressing world and yet found happiness in it . |
| 26 | We find that the bank is actually paying interest to us rather than us paying interest to the bank . |
| 27 | But , rather than spend the money and trouble on another of these exercises in exhibitionistic virtue , could we all just gather at some shrine , shout , ‘ Thank you , Arthur Miller , for being so much better than us ! ’ and go home to dinner ? |
| 28 | And this enigma was all of nineteen , not much older than us , but he was posh , not common like us , and we considered him to be superior , just the right boy to be in charge of our Charlie . |
| 29 | I feel so sure that you and your people here today know more , have a key , no , just know something more , than I , than us . |
| 30 | ( Much braver than us , you see . ) |