Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] [to-vb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ His agent came to see us at the St Louis Lollapalooza show , and we talked about the possibility of doing something together . |
| 2 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 3 | Once again Abbot Bere came to greet us in the guest house , accompanied by a monk who had been absent at our earlier meeting . |
| 4 | As ever , time constraints meant that we could n't try absolutely everything , and so the Bass Centre 's manager Martin Gravestock agreed to guide us through the popular models within our categories , and we chose random examples from there . |
| 5 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 6 | By denying the existence of administrative law in the face of the structural pressures for the growth in administration , the influence which Dicey 's theory had on political and legal thought served to shield us from the realities and to prevent us from addressing the issues raised by these developments in a constructive fashion . |
| 7 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 8 | But you 're right about Willesden and how you ladies managed to find us in the blackout beats me . ’ |
| 9 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
| 10 | It angers me that an insurance company attempted to kick us in the teeth when all we were trying to do was protect ourselves . ’ |