Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] [prep] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm we are reassuring everyone who has written to us in the that all of the will be taking it fully into consideration when the money application is is considered . |
| 2 | Les left the party for what he calls ‘ the superior ideology of Moral Re-Armament , ’ and has worked with us for the past sixteen years . |
| 3 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 4 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |
| 5 | So often , what has happened to us in the past determines whether or not we find it easy to trust both ourselves and others emotionally as adults . |
| 6 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 7 | If he 'd done something to or around the horses , I thought , then he had to have travelled with us on the train . |
| 8 | With regard to English , he suggests that what he sees as the limitations of ‘ metropolitan ’ use of the language may not be present in other registers : ‘ still an integration of thought and feeling in metaphor and imagery is what we seek to have recreated for us in the best literature ’ ( ibid. p. 78 ) . |
| 9 | On the very Sunday that the new church opened we looked in vain for the empty seats in St Luke 's : it seemed that God had given to us at the mother church a new group of people who had either moved into the area or who were to be converted and we saw the truth of the saying : ‘ Give and it will be given to you , pressed down and running over . ’ |
| 10 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 11 | We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name . |
| 12 | My mother enquired after Ras Tafari 's wife and family , especially after his eldest son , Asfa Wossen , who as a baby at the time of the battle of Sagale had sheltered with us in the Legation ; then they spoke of mutual friends , and recalled events that had occurred while we were in Abyssinia . |
| 13 | After that , we drove to the Ming Tombs close by , and stopped to have an enormous picnic which they had packed for us at the Friendship Hotel . |
| 14 | From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February . |
| 15 | I realized with a start that the beautiful young woman who had spoken to us on the bank was his wife . |
| 16 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 17 | Mr President , fellow members of Probus , I on your behalf would like to propose a vote of thanks to John , for the very lucid explanation he 's given to us on the operations of Trent Water . |
| 18 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
| 19 | he has done this morning , and he 's talked to us about the film . |
| 20 | The hotel leaflet ends a few paragraphs on : ‘ The Newton has had many celebrities who have stayed with us over the years , including the late Harold Macmillan and Charlie Chaplin … ’ |
| 21 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |