Example sentences of "[noun sg] [coord] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Sunday morning Bishop Harris of Middlesbrough celebrated Mass and delivered the homily in which he welcomed us into his diocese and congratulated us on the work we were doing . |
| 2 | When we explained that the underwater housing was to enable us to take portraits of the fishes underwater , they dissolved into disbelieving laughter and ushered us into the country . |
| 3 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 4 | The 1973 Act extended beyond planning blight and takes us into the much broader area of the law relating to compensation . |
| 5 | Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — " |
| 6 | Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development . |
| 7 | They protect the organs of the body and insulate us from the cold . |
| 8 | It will be white with a god-like figure like those Tibetan Buddhist temples which reflect the old vision of the winged disc and prepare us for the new . |
| 9 | In the flickering firelight Kalchu beseeched him , ‘ Lord , you are the one who , when we have nothing , feeds us with water and clothes us with the wind . |
| 10 | So it was that the eight of us ended up , kit gleaming in the spring sunshine , awaiting the arrival of the man who would diagnose our ills , administer a local anaesthetic and set us on the road to perfect health . |
| 11 | Separation releases the brakes of the inhibition and frees us in the two worlds . |
| 12 | He takes me and picks me up from school and takes us where we wan na go you know , off to the shop , off to here , off to get some get some drink and takes us for a drive and |
| 13 | We brought the figure down having at le , and waited two years and that 's th , I think that proves the lad 's foundation to the argument of how desperate the fire service need , need this station and it has absolutely nothing to do with Dovelands school er er whatsoever as far as I 'm concerned , I 'm the spokesperson for public protection not education and that 's it and er I 'm surprised er er that I know erm er er that Mr is is a very , very good supporter of the er southern fire station and supported us in the er in the er question we asked at the last council er meeting and er I 'm surprised he has n't spoke or even Mr who er , who likes to s , who likes to speak in the chamber but I 've has n't supported the fire station . |
| 14 | I doubt I am alone in responding to Hamish Brown 's article on Munros in the December issue , where again he adopts his posture of lordly authority and treats us to a display of elitism , self-righteousness , self-congratulation and contradictions . |
| 15 | Benjamin smiled , opened the stable door and joined us in the yard . |
| 16 | The Commission and the member states can draft as many biblical texts as they like , but the European Court of Justice has the last word and provides us with the ultimate truth . |
| 17 | It 's not the fat cats we got ta take notice of , who steal the cream and leave us with the sil sour milk even . |
| 18 | The hostel staff advised us about the best areas for walking , and also arranged for the essential guide , to keep us on the right path and to protect us from the buffalo . |
| 19 | Our inability to celebrate death takes the flavour from our food and leaves us in a state of wilfully maintained childhood with nursery tastes to match . |
| 20 | The steward answered Agrippa 's insistent knocking and took us into the main hallway . |
| 21 | The blast furnace heat at Aswan jumps off the tarmac and hits us like a blow as I lead my group towards the terminal building . |
| 22 | It 's doing something like this which is historically the foundation of this country and carries us to a new era . |
| 23 | It 's doing something like this which is historically the foundation of this country and carries us to a new era . |
| 24 | It was with such proclamations that the Cubists confirmed our lurch into the twentieth century and confronted us with the sometimes harsh realities that are alternative to the Renaissance view of mankind and certainly far removed from the elegances of Art Nouveau , Tiffany 's , the Moulin Rouge and the Paris Métro . |
| 25 | Britain is seen as having surrendered power to the Common Market in a way that has limited our freedom of manoeuvre and turned us into a colony of an embryonic West European federal state . |
| 26 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 27 | We are very grateful for Dr Carey Griffiths and Vic Smith for stepping into the breach and presenting us with a two-part programme . |
| 28 | I was standing in the bows looking forward when suddenly our gently hissing bow-wave turned into a glowing mass of green fire , which reflected from our hull and bathed us in a ghostly light . |
| 29 | Pat O'C Hegarty , Executive Committee nominee on the Pensioners ' Committee was a very welcome guest and presented us with the Association 's usual contribution of £900 for which we are most thankful . |
| 30 | Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure . |