Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] [prep] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The opening ceremony was managed for us by Cosmo PR in Tokyo and a specially selected audience of 120 people came to the event including around 70 customers from the four business areas represented at KITEC . |
| 2 | To adhere to the ( 1855 ) treaty that has been made , and which we on our side have kept … you have broken the treaty not we … that engagement was made with us for 20 years … |
| 3 | But I threw it away and wrote instead to tell him that the Victorian nonsense was his , not ours , since the rule was imposed on us by Parliament . |
| 4 | The match was regarded by us as a little bit special , because their amalgamation of players between two places five miles apart seemed faintly dishonest . |
| 5 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 6 | I felt that the news was broken to us in a very inhumane manner , but perhaps there is no way to sweeten the statement , and the sooner the news is conveyed the better for both the giver and receiver . |
| 7 | Round about midnight our supper was delivered to us from the cookhouse in a thing called a ‘ haybox ’ . |
| 8 | I think in Britain we were all rather amazed at how much solidarity was extended to us from Europe . |
| 9 | But in a reply to a letter from prospective Stockton South Labour MP John Scott , a senior ambulance officer says : ‘ The account was submitted not to the patient but to a relative whose name and address were given to us at the time of the booking . |
| 10 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 11 | We had a lecture that afternoon in which the course and aim of our training was explained to us by Sergeant-Chef Gibeau , an angular Frenchman with a perfectly shaved head and a tendency to wear sunglasses in the rain . |
| 12 | The steward was waiting for us at the foot of the steps . |
| 13 | Reality was thrust upon us by a passing Midland H.S.T. , as our loco ran round at Riddings . |
| 14 | Our first challenge was put to us by Father Peter and Phil , the youth volunteer . |
| 15 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 16 | The Führer was sent to us from God , though not in order to save Germany , but to ruin it . |
| 17 | The rest of the party were waiting for us in a courtyard full of yapping dogs ; long , lean greyhounds , black , white and brindled . |
| 18 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 19 | A great fuss was made of us on that trip , according to my mother . |
| 20 | Remember , this task was given to us by you . |