Example sentences of "[noun sg] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , if we are grooming a horse and it tries to cow-kick us , we retaliate with a sharp verbal reproach or a smack with the flat of the hand , and usually the horse decides to accept that we are the boss and minds its manners in the future . |
| 2 | It would be no good us offering just tour operator packages . |
| 3 | It 's no good us saying oh well , nobody writes about that article , because a vast majority of people , that 's all they know about it , if they 've read that article at all , and not everybody reads the parish magazine . |
| 4 | And it 's no good us having |
| 5 | But that should not distress us . |
| 6 | And then it came turn and er was er speaking quite well when this girl behind us this wee well along side us was thumbs up on him all the time you know he was doing well and that . |
| 7 | ‘ Not trying to swindle us , Tom . |
| 8 | A Sergeant and four Corporals arrived from Orange to pick us up on the following Monday . |
| 9 | The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses . |
| 10 | It would be unrealistic to suggest that a good organic diet , daily meditation and aromatherapy massage is the answer to life 's problems , and that it will somehow cocoon us in an etheric pink haze for the rest of our days ! |
| 11 | A final visit to say goodbyes to all our Malaysian friends and intensive packing saw us reluctantly depart for our homeward flight — Penang , Kuala Lumpur , Istanbul , Brussels , London , Yorkshire . |
| 12 | For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art . |
| 13 | I feel that teachers must be educated , if they can education us . |
| 14 | In brief , Shawcross suggests that the means of modern mass communication bombard us continually with images and information about world events and specifically about natural and man-made disasters , for example , wars , famines , floods , etc . |
| 15 | The massive resources of ( RCAM in creating Boulez 's Répons produce the latest galaxies of computer-manipulated sounds , which engulf us and bombard us like meteor showers . |
| 16 | Likewise , Le Gai Savoir , made in 1968 , was a gloss on Rousseau 's Emile ou l'éducation and propounded that ‘ the central problem of education is to provide some understanding of the sounds and images that bombard us in our everyday lives ’ ( MacCabe 1980 , p. 20 ) . |
| 17 | And then that one fell through because they had n't done the repairs on , so they gen us this flat . |
| 18 | We have n't been out for a drink us since , I think last time we went out New Year 's Day |
| 19 | Working in conjunction effectively with you , our members , and it has to meet your needs and interests as well as our own , and I 'm therefore looking forward to the possibility , in fact , the certainty of us having a year of achievement us for the interests of the voluntary sector . |
| 20 | The club 's honorary secretary , Chris Mountain , said : ‘ It is an honour fir us to stage the game . |
| 21 | I thought the last war would dae fir us all , but it didnae . ’ |
| 22 | Mr manager at branch mean the area manager us , she said he 's not even had the decency to tell me himself |
| 23 | Some tasks help to ground us , give us time to think and allow us to feel more in touch with the domestic cycle . |
| 24 | ‘ Are yer goin' to sit an' talk wiv us ? ’ |
| 25 | ‘ If yer miss payin' 'e 'll do the same as 'e did wiv us . |
| 26 | Rose and her ma exchanged smacking kisses , and ‘ Ere 's McAllister from the doctor 's , ma , come to ‘ ave tea wiv us , ’ Rose announced . |
| 27 | " Item whereas there is Sixscore pounds due unto mee by Roger Harper and Johnn Barrett Payable at Certen Dayes and tymes agreed uponn betweene us , My mynde and will ys That the Somme of Fortye pounds being a Thirdd parte of the sayd Sixscore pounds shall be and remayne to the augmentacion and increase of the wages of the Schoolemaster of Stockport for the tyme beinge , for ever , to be hadd and receaved at suche dayes and tymes as the same shall bee due , And further I do will and bequeath the sume of Tenn pounds for and towards the augmenting of the Schoolmasters wages afforesayd to make upp the sayd sume of Fortye pounds the Full sume of Fyftie pounds All the sayd Sume to be Imployed and used for the benefit of the Schoolemaster afforesayde by the Parsonn of Stockporte the Maior of Stockport and the most Auncyent Alderman thereof for the time being . |
| 28 | Secondly I think the sad thing is is that at one time the idea of the foyer bar was the fact that er mother 's and children go in for a coffee facility or tea facility now I 'm I 'm one of one of the problems about criticism is is perhaps they do n't know all the facts and one of the facts which I think astounded me was the actual local police stopped that and said that that was n't permissible for if you were selling alcohol then it did n't it was n't right that that children under age and young children were allowed in the same area and that was that was changed then we got a new a new police superintendent and he said it was permissible and then we got another super he went they do n't stay very long in Harlow and we got somebody else came along and he said no that is n't permissible so we got very schizophrenic about what you could do with the foyer bar one minute you could have and the idea of about telling people and there young mothers going shopping come here for coffee , cakes for the children etc stop that we 've now got a new superintendent in Harlow and I think with applied going back to him and saying well please advice us can we or ca n't we ? |
| 29 | ( Boy would never , of course , have used the word us at this time . |
| 30 | And there 's lots of men wo n't use the word us , still . ) |