Example sentences of "us [adv] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Your father does owe us rather a lot of money , you know , will your cousin meet the obligations ? ’ |
| 2 | Dame Gillian Brown thanked the speakers with great enthusiasm , congratulated the Principal on ensuring the succession , and also thanked Patricia Hutchinson and Mary Keen for a successful meeting , and the University Womens ' Club ( worth joining even if it is known as Pussy Cat Hall by my irreverent 88 year old cousin , a St. Hugh 's gal ) gave us rather a good tea . |
| 3 | He guided us along a functional passage or three , then finally into a large open area where he halted — obviously to let the full impact hit us . |
| 4 | ‘ Next time why do n't you come down to see us , to hurry us along a bit ? |
| 5 | Then my father slowly raised his rifle and there was the tiger , padding towards us along a narrow game trail , his head moving from side to side . |
| 6 | £ But I think to give us perhaps a more vivid idea of what it must have been like for ordinary people , these are 3 houses in St Aldate 's that do n't exist any more , they 're down more-or-less where the police station is , erm and we do know exactly who lived there , and who was actually there during the war . |
| 7 | Perhaps God in his wisdom has told us only a little about the nature and personhood of Satan so that we are not tempted to dwell on him with morbid fascination . |
| 8 | For it is becoming increasingly clear that a semantic theory alone can give us only a proportion , and perhaps only a small if essential proportion , of a general account of language understanding . |
| 9 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 10 | After dropping 100m in about 4.5 miles , a sneaky left hand turn ( just after you come to some dry stone walls ) led us down a long rough track to the Low Mill — Gillamoor road . |
| 11 | Bertie led us down a sloping alleyway to a heavy door where we left our shoes . |
| 12 | It 's tied us down a lot . |
| 13 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 14 | But erm I I think some of them let us down a bit . |
| 15 | ‘ If it could come for us just a little way away I would n't mind , ’ Gurder quavered . |
| 16 | ‘ Tell us just a little bit more about what she does , ’ Matilda said . |
| 17 | ‘ Some of us just a little . |
| 18 | And if we can just er just go back just for for one minute , just to draw a bit of before you were captured , er and whatnot , could you tell us just a little bit about the living conditions that you had when you were actually at the front . |
| 19 | Could she give us just a handful of examples of people who were moved from geriatric beds into the private sector in the early stages of the development of the policy and were given the assurance that she says was publicly given that the Government had no intention of meeting fees , however high ? |
| 20 | Ms Walter offers us not a contralto tragedy-queen but a real woman passionately attached to her husband ( to whom Mick Ford lends a shy goodness ) and children . |
| 21 | Here we are , hale and hearty , neither of us exactly a moron . |
| 22 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 23 | Gary Stebbing was a stylish England Youth international and sometime captain who joined the Palace straight from school in 1983 and played in a variety of midfield and defensive positions for us over a five year span . |
| 24 | As Ms Harvest has said to us over a satellite link , ‘ Dr Proctor … he was the Devil all right . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ George , he 's got us over a barrel . |
| 26 | We have an impressive ability to recognise those familiar to us over a wide variety of conditions : for example varying lighting conditions , viewing angles , cosmetic changes ( hairstyles or make-up ) and even age . |
| 27 | At first they came to visit us once a month but then the visits became few and far between . |
| 28 | ‘ Bobby trains us once a week at the local leisure centre and we 've really progressed this season under his supervision . ’ |
| 29 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 30 | They sent us nearly a box full of it . |