Example sentences of "assured us " in BNC.
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| 1 | At 11.58 David Dimbleby assured us on BBC : ‘ A total of four results have been declared so far . ’ |
| 2 | All the Iraqi people with whom we met assured us that they were eager for negotiations in order to avoid war , but said that they would not take orders from George Bush , and that none of the parties should insist on any conditions to the holding of these negotiations . |
| 3 | Instead of retracing our steps , we dropped down into An Lairig , the glen between the ridge and the deceitful Beinn a' Chlachair , mainly because Mr OS map assured us with a neat dotted line that there was a stalkers , path there . |
| 4 | She assured us they had only been worn a few times . |
| 5 | Another item assured us that ‘ Mr Cook was personally conducting one of his Highland Tours ’ . |
| 6 | Six months after Opren came off the market he proposed no improvements but whatever changes we make in our monitoring system ‘ it is almost certain ’ , he assured us , ‘ there will be another such incident sooner or later ’ . |
| 7 | He would n't be gone long , he assured us , but the look Karen and I exchanged confirmed that it would be long enough . |
| 8 | We told Jean Paul that the cut-off jeans held together with masking tape and ground-in dirt were a bit trop , and he assured us that the too-small cycling caps would look genuinely ridiculous when they were made up . |
| 9 | Limited by what , in a recession , it could realistically claim to be spending , and obliged to exaggerate its fiscal rectitude to appear electable in the City , Labour had either to trim its sails to an economic situation it assured us was dire — thereby undermining the main reason why people supported them — or hold to its promises , confirming the impression that , once the party was in power , taxation and spending would soar . |
| 10 | This , they assured us , would cut out the air and so stop the flames . |
| 11 | ‘ We realise now we made a mistake but everyone in Cyprus assured us it was a formality , ’ said Mary . |
| 12 | Things really do seem to be looking up , and we can now discount all those gloom-merchants who assured us it would all be over before Christmas . |
| 13 | When we arrived in Navarradonda where the body was taken , the local police assured us that ground searches had been conducted with dogs the day after Jeremy 's disappearance . |
| 14 | After we left the lake , our friend drove us inland to a forested area where , he assured us we had a good chance of seeing a great grey owl . |
| 15 | When pressed on this , one member of the team assured us that schools were by no means excluded from consideration on these grounds , but we may speculate that members ' own positions regarding comprehensive reorganisation will have played some part . |
| 16 | He had often experienced it , he assured us , but had thought it had died out with the Christian missionary influence of recent years . |
| 17 | But Mr Frobisher , who had been having trouble with his male leads , assured us he was just what was needed . |
| 18 | Whenever we asked for reassurance , Mr Smith assured us that his tribal chiefs were loyal to him and would vote for whatever agreement he advised them to . |
| 19 | Mahmoud assured us that there would be no more problems and said if we were upset we should n't get angry but must talk to a chef . |
| 20 | Dixons supplied the machine with 2Mb of RAM , but assured us they would supply a 2Mb upgrade within a few days . |
| 21 | At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail . |
| 22 | The rest of the band were not available for comment , but all the record companies we spoke to assured us that they had enough new material from Various to see us well into the next century . |
| 23 | He assured us that the preservation of a proper pension scheme would be a consideration taken into account by the Secretary of State in determining to whom the subsidiaries of the Scottish Transport Group were to be sold . |
| 24 | Omar assured us that the Somalis he had engaged would wait contentedly with the camels until we turned up . |
| 25 | At first I was doubtful about taking him , for he did not look strong ; but the Sandfords assured us that he had stood up to several long treks with them , invariably producing good meals even under the most unfavourable conditions , that he never interfered with other people , and was always ready to lend a hand at any job . |
| 26 | Chief executive Ross Shimmon said : ‘ When we met Peter Brooke in late November he assured us that there was no prospect of VAT being imposed on books , but stories in the national press continually suggest that opposite . |
| 27 | The FO chap knew all about it , of course , and any time things looked like coming off the boil he dived in and assured us this could be the biggest coup since the Zimmerman telegram . |
| 28 | Club Secretary Sean O'Neill assured us that we would get out to play our competition and so we did . |
| 29 | These were all , the psychiatrist assured us , very precise diagnostic terms . |
| 30 | The right hon. Member for Blaby will be remembered as the Chancellor who dismissed rising inflation as a temporary blip and who , having put up interest rates to 15 per cent. , none the less assured us that the economy would have , to use his phrase , a soft landing . |