Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] us in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
2 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
3 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
4 | yeah , well they called us in the canteen |
5 | They resented us in the beginning but I think as the years have gone by and they have seen the facilities that a new town has brought to their advantage I think they 're more acceptable now , but they did resent us in the beginning . |
6 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
7 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
8 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
9 | His flight engineer WO W. G. Higgs wrote : On the night of 10/20 September 1942 we were attacked by a Bf110 from below ; he hit us in the port mainplane and set fire to numbers five and six fuel tanks , " the ailerons were jammed and the fuselage was also on fire . |
10 | If Professor Benson here were to make a very brief precis of the lecture he gave us in the wardroom this evening it might give them something more to think about . ’ |