Example sentences of "[noun pl] [prep] us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 2 | Archie usually performed as a combative left-half for the Palace , but he was also occasionally drafted into the front line , to play as a makeshift centre-forward to most useful effect , because his considerable height gave him a distinct advantage in that department and he scored on his first two outings for us in the number nine shirt . |
| 3 | She is not working here this week but should be fielding calls for us after the election . ’ |
| 4 | After leaving Argentina illegally in 1940 , he flew Spitfires and Hurricanes for us during the war . |
| 5 | Tony Asmar 's lined up a couple of people in Beirut to shoot some pictures for us near the airport . |
| 6 | All the pictures of us on the beach , with got all . |
| 7 | They would spend the whole of the next four months with us during the time it took to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 8 | As he talks a train of small boys returning from school tramps behind us to the beat of the folk-pop tape . |
| 9 | There were crates with us in the carriage ; he was escaping from home again . |
| 10 | And I would like to say at this point I was very disappointed that we did n't have any other conservatives with us in the afternoon . |
| 11 | It 's quite a while now since I 've bored you with a few observations about our friends the dumb animals who share their lives with us on the planet and the more you observe them the more convinced you become that they 're anything but dumb . |
| 12 | We 're we are part of the that process and it 's it 's sometimes encouraging for us to remember that there are small denominations , small groups like us around the world who are struggling to make their Christian witness real in their particular context . |
| 13 | Some goes to us from the junction , the rest goes to the barracks . |
| 14 | Evolution is presented as a progression from simple to complex forms with us at the pinnacle of it all as the most complex . |
| 15 | The Cavalier has stopped twenty yards behind us on the road . |
| 16 | We were camped on a sand and gravel plain with the road running north–south , fifty yards from us to the east . |
| 17 | But the worst silence of all is when we take it for granted that they know how much they are still appreciated and that the calloused hands or fingers are symbols to us of the love and caring poured into our lives . |
| 18 | ‘ S funny , in n it , ’ he ruminated , ‘ ow we got yer on the run today , arter all yer wins over us in the past ? |
| 19 | Oh , cos he did a couple of nice bits for us in the past |
| 20 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 21 | Talisker may not be too healthy for the likes of us at the moment , I 'm thinking , ’ Ratagan said . |
| 22 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 23 | ‘ Being there , where Paul wrote home such humorous , hopeful and reassuring letters to us in the middle of all the trouble , will mean something very special to us . ’ |
| 24 | Jamie snarls at us from the pillow . |
| 25 | The four of us stand watching each other in the dark street while the laughing crowd drifts past us from the pub 's side door . |