Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun sg] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The neck button disappeared — but not the buttonhole — and today a wedding boutonnière reminds us of the sporting ancestry of the coat . |
| 2 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
| 3 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
| 4 | Surely those were good questions which need answering , and to abandon the community interpretation deprives us of the only possible answer . |
| 5 | 1 April : The Sun guns for Jack Straw , for having three houses : ‘ I 'm alright Jack — Shadow education minister lectures us on the scandal of private education from the luxury of his £300,000 cottage , his £200,000 town house and his £40,000 flat ! ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The paradigm example to remind us of the conventionality of the relationship between meanings and perceptions is the case of expressions for colour , and this holds good even if we are willing to accept a case for the universality of certain focal points of colour perception . ) |
| 8 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 9 | The intervening years have seen the chip gradually replacing the cathode ray to provide us with the most pervasive and persuasive form of global mass communication . |
| 10 | All that we said in Part 2 about exploiting the control video gives us over the material is as relevant to the teacher trainer as it is to the teacher . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Our last cliff path led us above the water , west into the setting sun , to Mgarr where we had landed a week earlier . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | What we were doing was a half-hour walkabout to accustom us to the feel of the birds . |
| 15 | At the Din as Reserve we followed the nature trail ; a board walk steered us over the bossy bits . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | How much does the Gordon growth model tell us about the determinants of the price — earnings ratio ? |
| 18 | THE sight of Martin Bell falling injured after being hit by Serbian mortar fire reminds us of the risks reporters take to bring us the news . |
| 19 | ‘ How pleasant , then , for you to relax on this assignment , ’ Roman countered smoothly , a steely note beneath the surface , ‘ knowing that family friendship absolves us from the need for stiff formality . ’ |
| 20 | We are grateful for a flysheet-pitch-first tent in the Tromsdalen campsite and as we work speedily on its erection , the man in the camp reception hut watches us through the windows . |
| 21 | Recent newspaper reports have highlighted the potential threat to Britain when the Channel Tunnel links us with the Continent . |