Example sentences of "[vb past] us all " in BNC.
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| 31 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |
| 32 | Refreshed , they bade us all adieu , and sped off in their big car . |
| 33 | Eadred coolly agreed , informed us that food would be sent across and bade us all a courteous good night . |
| 34 | At the close , over the coffee and brandies , he thanked us all for attending , told one short and amusing joke and wished us on our way . |
| 35 | Nobody owned up so he ordered us all to fetch our kit downstairs and to spread it out in a line on the wet grass , while he went along inspecting our underpants and spare trousers . |
| 36 | This time they were sent to Alfred Bowles of Ipswich and bear the inscription " Alfred made me and hung us all " . |
| 37 | She touched us all , including our district nurse who had a chronic whiplash injury and her friend who had an arthritic hip . ’ |
| 38 | He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west . |
| 39 | The boilerhouse bridge needed repairing before it pitched us all into the river . |
| 40 | Now , in the very week Greenpeace urged us all to send postcards to Mr Scopes , the chief executive of ICI paints , to say , ‘ I wo n't buy Dulux paints until ICI stops des-troying the ozone layer ’ , Northampton borough council struck its own blow for the atmosphere . |
| 41 | We all had our recollections of our own special moments , but the abiding memory is of the blessed peach and tranquillity of the Shrine and the almost tangible bond of companionship and caring , love and laughter which bound us all together . |
| 42 | They called us all down to see what a million pounds looked like . |
| 43 | Yeah , they come round and they were all on about it and er , erm and that was it , Darren called us all into the canteen , well I , I mean Pam must have told you that I was , I could n't get over it and he said thanks for all you 've done , all your support and I thought yeah |
| 44 | Jack Sangston warned us all . |
| 45 | it it does n't ev I mean the , the , the one main item is th th that shocked us all is that is only Chris can approve the use of consultants , in any shape or form . |
| 46 | For Constanza it created a sort of void — no real responsibility ; and it tied us all together in new ways . |
| 47 | Alan Parton , Ian Shepherd and the staff of JM Burslem treated us all to a wonderful welcome and an excellent buffet lunch which was most appreciated at the end of a long and winding road . |
| 48 | Analysing the moral status of a whole society calls for clear thinking and a certain coolness of mind , elements conspicuously absent from most of the pronouncements of public figures in recent weeks , aptly if unintentionally encapsulated by the Prime Minister himself when he exhorted us all to try to understand less . |
| 49 | So a sergeant named Jimmy Barlow — he took us all down . |
| 50 | Mary 's fiancé , Johnny , who was a sergeant motor mechanic on one of the bomber air fields in Yorkshire , came down to visit her and took us all out for a drink one evening . |
| 51 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 52 | At Mohnyin ten convalescent officers and twenty-eight men , the two faithful sergeants and myself got off the hospital train and made for the hospital of the BCMS where Dr Russell and the two nursing sisters took us all in and gave medical treatment to those needing it . |
| 53 | The dead children 's distraught grandfather Trevor said last night : ‘ Garry took us all out for a big family meal and then on Sunday we had a lovely picnic by a lake . |
| 54 | Emma took us all on a bumpy buggy ride over to the second stage , until it was confiscated by security . |
| 55 | ‘ I remember when in 1987 he took us all to a castle near Como , ’ says Adriano Galliani , Milan 's managing director . |
| 56 | One Sunday my dad took us all up to see the new pit-head baths . |
| 57 | He took us all in with one sombre glance . |
| 58 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 59 | spirits on , spirit something , well I said where we went I said you 're doing something similar to what we did , we had brandy and it took us all through the cellars |
| 60 | Sure I d I mean the day he took us , took us all out for dinner |