Example sentences of "[noun pl] [vb past] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 2 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 3 | Our nervous Iraqi guards kept us inside the small bungalow that was ‘ home ’ for the 12 of us . |
| 4 | Occasional cairns led us to a challenging rocky descent into another forest , full of rhododendron blossom , pine scents and birdsong . |
| 5 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 6 | The Quartet can be read as a ‘ simulacrum of simulation ’ in this sense : it reveals the simulated nature of the projections , speculations , and reconstructions fed us by the oral media and the role of story-telling in all so-called ‘ objective ’ compilations of factual information . |
| 7 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 8 | Our crewmates warned us about the Biranese girls ' reputation as practitioners of a dangerous form of magic which could trap a man on their island for ever ; then they disappeared ashore into the backstreets . |
| 9 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 10 | A steep climb through bracken and bilberries brought us to a wide rocky plateau . |
| 11 | " The ceremonies taught us by the Chinese emperors ceased to be celebrated fourteen years ago in China itself when the revolution of Sun Yat-sen put an end to the Manchu dynasty . |
| 12 | A short walk along the coastline past the few prettily painted small hotels brought us to the gorgeous bay lined with palm trees which we shared with the numerous shy crabs which intermittently popped out of the holes in the white sand . |
| 13 | This we did by making sure every request for spare parts , made on order slips , had been met by the delivery of these parts told us by the exact delivery slip . |
| 14 | From here , boatmen took us through a dog-leg cave where refracted light gleamed strangely blue in the water . |