Example sentences of "[vb past] us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipper worked nicely on the flat , so John built us a six inch cross pole to trot over . |
| 2 | And cer the determination of the women , that we were n't gon na be starved back to work , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , we were n't just gon na end in chaos and some of us going back and some of us staying out , I think it was the women possibly talking to their husbands or , and just reassuring each other , you know that helped us no end . |
| 3 | That helped us a lot . |
| 4 | I think the wives found it to their benefit to get amongst other wives who were sharing the same problems you know , how to pay the bills , how to buy food , and I think they seemed to get organized pretty well , they certainly helped us a hell of a lot . |
| 5 | She helped us a lot . |
| 6 | I had pulled the team together by the second half , and Sporting found us a very different proposition and were lucky to hold us to 0–0 . |
| 7 | It was , in fact , Iris who found us a cook . |
| 8 | PS : Blandly found us an excellent man to be captain , and Silver found a man called Arrow to be first officer . |
| 9 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 10 | I approached the Edinburgh Green Belt Trust , who thought the project a good one , and promised us a grant of £3,000 for materials and hire of equipment , subject to SNH approval . |
| 11 | But a few years ago , when they promised us the summer heat would last for months , she had it cut short . |
| 12 | Lloyd even promised us an interview with Andrew Ball but we heard nothing . |
| 13 | Clear skies allowed us to witness , once again , sensational scenery ; the worst storm of the summer only caught us a few hours away from Sasoma . |
| 14 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 15 | It cost us a lot to close it , but we are very pleased we did . |
| 16 | I refer not only to the substantial amount of money that was made available , resulting in a £45 per week rise for nursing homes , which cost us a total of £225 million , but to the amendment that allowed the Secretary of State , after community care had been in place for some time , to take account of the local authorities ' assessments of reasonable rates and of their experiences in general . |
| 17 | I hung a right which cost us a fair amount of starboard body work and a couple of hub caps . |
| 18 | And it cost us a bomb ! |
| 19 | It cost us a fortune in . |
| 20 | Even though it cost us the life of a very good agent . ’ |
| 21 | entire market price even though it cost us the business at this point in time . |
| 22 | One incident that has stuck with me was when he played us the Queen of the Night 's aria from The Magic Flute , telling us that it was notoriously difficult for singers as the top note reached ‘ F in alt ’ . |
| 23 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 24 | Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe . |
| 25 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 26 | ‘ Victor told us a grim story on the plane . |
| 27 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 28 | According to what Texas Instruments Inc told us a few weeks ago ( UX No 405 ) , it certainly had the chips . |
| 29 | Your father , Dermot told us a lot of course — I 'm sure your mother would have been none too pleased , if she knew , but his first loyalty was always to the cause . |
| 30 | He would juggle them with his tongue for us children and told us a tale of getting his glasses whipped off by a passing branch . |