Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [prep] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Hours of bending and stretching and twisting down on the prom in singlets and shorts while the wind whipped over us from the wintry sea . |
| 2 | Our full terms of reference and supplementary guidance given to us by the Secretary of State for Education and Science are contained in appendices 2 and 3 . |
| 3 | Just to be told what 's going on , what 's in the packet , what the future holds for us in the food game . |
| 4 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 5 | Three or four cars wheezed past us on the dusty road . |
| 6 | Tiny green balls of light phosphorescing at us from the dark of the bracken . |
| 7 | Elinor said , pointing to a figure marching towards us along the riverside . |
| 8 | I got back to Ingard House a bit after four o'clock , and went up to rooms 207–8 , the offices allotted to us for the purposes of our audit . |
| 9 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 10 | He drinks the tea brought to us by the koko gravely , and makes exasperated noises . |
| 11 | I do n't think anyone will dispute that those are not offices suited to us in the nineties . |
| 12 | We had sergeants and inspectors jumping on us for the least little thing and very often trying to get us into trouble , whereas young fellows learning the job , what we needed was assistance . |
| 13 | There should be a car waitin' fur us at the airport when we get in to Lima . |
| 14 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 15 | From our balcony we could see the great Bugis sailing prahus scything past us into the harbour . |
| 16 | Our values are distorted by the power of advertising and the ideology fed to us via the mass media , they would claim . |
| 17 | A taxi-cab stopped alongside us at the traffic lights . |
| 18 | Being certainly lost an opportunity by not being it 's only body there is an editing element in the book publishing section from the P G B and there are elements relating to us in the S P G of the Periodical Training Council and there will be bits of them in the public relations in the marketing one of which I 've got a copy of the draft , but you know there is nothing all embracing B T E C do graphics and journalism but there is no single forum , I mean that 's what so astonishing and interestingly somebody at B T E C told me the other day there 's been a bit of a problem about the the book editing part of the editing level three element um , and that 's partly political as to editing versus production because production 's level four and editing is level three , and that has made some problems apparently |
| 19 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 20 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
| 21 | For the first , and last time a guard travelled with us in the box . |
| 22 | The divine drama illuminated for us by the Holy Spirit disintegrates into puzzles , conundrums and endless interpretations . |
| 23 | The sound moved through us as the gunman 's shoulder and body jerked with the recoil of the rifle , the small boy 's face alert , fixated . |
| 24 | The wind and rain swept upon us as the ferry , our fellow passengers and all associations with warmth , comfort and civilisation disappeared into the greyness . |
| 25 | David and Catherine shared with us during the evening service on December 29th , and explained how God had led David from being a car mechanic into the mission field in Brazil . |
| 26 | Educational integration therefore becomes a wider concept than social integration since it involves , among other things , how we use the knowledge given to us by the act of socialisation . |
| 27 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 28 | A lorry rolled past us along the road , its crumbling body bright with painted pictures plastered over with dust . |
| 29 | As a consequence we are still constrained to conform to standards of behaviour expected of us by the group . |
| 30 | There are skylarks and foxes and an owl sits in the apple tree staring at us by the fire in winter . |