Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us [prep] this [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 He is not afraid to come before us in this book as a full-blown figure , someone who is quite recognizable ( from earliest school letters and the accounts of Kirkpatrick ) as ‘ the real Lewis ’ but who is also , for the first time , ‘ found ’ as an artistic voice .
2 We had never met her before she came , yet she immediately called us Mummy and Daddy , and still writes to us in this way from Nigeria .
3 Two difficulties in particular , are relevant to the arguments that have been addressed to us in this case .
4 As an adopted ball for LTA sanctioned events , ( adoption into the LTA Sponsors Ball Pool ) , it has already been selected for us in this country at the 14 , 16 and 18 and under Midland Bank Junior Championships .
5 We , the young people of this area , extend our greetings to you and thank you for listening to us on this Youth Sunday .
6 Father , why has no word been said to us of this matter ? ’
7 The people who created the Garotter 's Act , together with the gentlemen who egged them on from the sidelines helping to fashion the vocabulary of objections to penal reform which remain with us to this day , were thus the same men whose blunted moral sensibilities enabled them to preside over this magnanimous process of ‘ civilisation ’ without turning a hair .
8 In my knowledge he has never spoken to us about this business .
9 It is the argument founded upon analogy with R.S.C. , Ord. 24 , r. 14A and it seems to us in this context a little stronger .
10 The majority of KPMG 's offices in Europe do not have a pro-active search capacity although several have been involved by us in this type of work — in particular Amsterdam , Utrecht , Paris , Frankfurt and Madrid .
11 He is a good man to have with us on this journey … ’
12 I should perhaps add that I was not a member of the committee who heard these appeals in the first hearing since I became involved only when your Lordships who sat in the first hearing suggested a second hearing under my chairmanship and accordingly I have not been asked to consider this matter apart from the discussion of the extracts from Hansard which have been put before us in this appeal .
13 If it were put to us in this way we might be less prone to think of it as imposing a vastly increased burden on the community .
14 And they sent back and now this is what they said to us in this letter I remember this distinctly that er if we want you to come out we 'll tell you but we regard your factories as our second line of defence .
15 If you would like more information on coping with the effects of head injuries please write to us at this address :
16 ‘ We have 1,500 people working for us in this Opera House , and everybody is talking about the ghost .
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