Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [pron] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Nothing prepares us for his next move . |
2 | The comrades we have been teaching are very pleasant , but a bit more reticent than elsewhere — the people at Peking and Sian got round to calling us by our first names , but here it 's ‘ miss ’ and ‘ Professor ’ ( or , to give my name in Chinese ) . |
3 | Here the good sisters comforted us on our last journey with a manchet of bread and a cup of wine . |
4 | Denice tells us about her first date , when she was seventeen , and talks about her early life in Houston . |
5 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
6 | This provides us with our next guideline . |
7 | This discussion of learning provides us with our next guideline : |
8 | Dishes of dainty ‘ amuse gueule ’ teased us into our first course of whole baby Brittany lobster , seascented and sat upon a diminutive salad of oil-tossed green leaves — simple you might think — splendid simplicity in fact . |
9 | Since then she has written to tell us of her first reply and we thought you 'd also be interested in some of the suggestions that came in , including Dee Murton 's account of the origin of these cardboard cones which was news to us . |
10 | Miss Laverock would often drop into my office to tell us of her next celebrity concert , and she was generous with her courtesy passes . |
11 | We can therefore anticipate — and this brings us to our second theme — that the answers we seek actually lie elsewhere than in a simple equation between creative and mad thought . |
12 | This brings us to our third point , that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups . |
13 | This brings us to our last category , the encyclopedias . |