Example sentences of "[noun] [noun] [vb past] us [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Richard Branson saved us over the boredom .
2 On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh .
3 She said desperately , ‘ Miss Evans sent us for the goose .
4 Mr Trelawney met us at the cave .
5 The Club Captain , John Gunne and Lady Captain , Josie McPhillips joined us for the Outing and for the evening celebrations .
6 And I did n't know about the drugs until the Customs launch stopped us in the bay .
7 ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic .
8 We then sang The National Anthem and Mr. Russ addressed us on the subject of patriotism .
9 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
10 Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke .
11 But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke .
12 I learned about trailer driving the hard way during a competition retrieve , when an enthusiastic crew member took us off the road with an Eagle two-seater in the trailer .
13 The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) .
14 A Zim motor-car took us from the airport to the Europe Hotel which is just off the Nevsky prospekt , the wide main street of Leningrad .
15 Our last cliff path led us above the water , west into the setting sun , to Mgarr where we had landed a week earlier .
16 And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose .
17 At the Din as Reserve we followed the nature trail ; a board walk steered us over the bossy bits .
18 The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo .
19 When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away .
20 After a simply splendid lunch , Bari Logan introduced us to the art of long term preservation from the medical school anatomist 's point of view .
21 Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us .
22 At the end of our golden period in the 1930s a 2–0 victory over Ditchford Colliery took us past the Preliminary Preliminary First Qualifying Round , although we faltered in the following Preliminary First Qualifying Round , losing 6–2 to Bonsford Hartley of the South FC .
23 Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream .
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