Example sentences of "be us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'm sure they 're as good as we are but , they 're them and we 're us . |
| 2 | ‘ The way things are going we shall lose more of our friends , or it could be us next time round . |
| 3 | Dwyer , who guided the Aussies to World Cup victory last year , insists : ‘ There has been such an improvement in Welsh rugby it could be us who go in as underdogs . ’ |
| 4 | There is no reason why , out of the whole Universe , it should be us at the centre . ’ |
| 5 | They must not know what can be used against anyone , for it might be us . ’ |
| 6 | the , the in-house , friendly at atmosphere we 've had up to now , er non-competitive , across to what we 're gon na see in the future , in the future , which is competitive with a professional client giving a professional remit to a number of tenderers , which will be us . |
| 7 | ‘ It could be us , ’ Rincewind pointed out logically . |
| 8 | Shut one of them down , it 'll probably be us . |
| 9 | The big difference between it and option one is that the government would not be us ing social-security receipts to reduce its outstanding debt but would instead be making multi-trillion-dollar investment decisions in the private economy . |
| 10 | There would n't be any room for us to be us . ’ |
| 11 | It wo n't be us at the next E I P , but are n't you inventing the same problem |
| 12 | ‘ God help us , we can only be us , and that 's the pity of it . ’ |
| 13 | Erm after football 's done , then it must be us . |
| 14 | would n't be us cos we went to the |
| 15 | ’ And the element of surprise could allow is to break away , or could being us into a position to fire on the other ship ’ . |
| 16 | She arrives , convincingly , at a much more positive — for the women in question — interpretation ; but also one which allows the writings and lives of these women to have a depth and dimension for us which was simply not available in many cases while we insisted on trying to see them as sexual victims of appalling restrictions of personal freedom : to see them as though they were us . |
| 17 | Aye that 's , right , that 's it , that were us |
| 18 | ‘ It is absurd to talk about a fourth Reich , because it is us Germans who are today leading the way in ceding national sovereignty to European institutions ’ , he said . |
| 19 | Too often it is us , the anxious onlookers , who want the person to be admitted to ‘ care ’ because it makes us feel better . |
| 20 | It very nearly is us : as personal and as deeply embedded as childhood memories of Christmas or school terms . |
| 21 | The enemy is us |
| 22 | Still , there is plenty to justify Scrooge s charge of humbug in our present day Christmas practice , and I sometimes wonder if it is us who need to be frightened out of our effervescent joy . |
| 23 | ‘ If we want to buy a player , it is us who decide the price . ’ |
| 24 | Oldtimers will remember the famous panel from the US comic strip Pogo that had one of the cartoon 's forest creatures utter the immortal words , ‘ We have seen the enemy and he is us . ’ |
| 25 | Perhaps it is us who have made them what they are ? " |
| 26 | Us an Dem it is Us an Dem |
| 27 | Us an Dem it is Us an Dem . |
| 28 | Us an Dem it is Us an Dem |
| 29 | Us an Dem it is Us an Dem |
| 30 | ‘ Oh my God , this is us . ’ |