Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 2 | You caught us on the hop there , ol' buddy . |
| 3 | ‘ Well , we do open to the public now , as you know , but oh ! the bills , and the staff want paying , ’ she said as she showed us to the door . |
| 4 | The manager was okay — all she wanted was to get the place calmed down — and she showed us out the back way . ’ |
| 5 | She alerted us to the possibility that ‘ using collaborative methods of working ’ could also mean ‘ helping children to create collaborative activities for themselves ’ . |
| 6 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 7 | " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? " |
| 8 | The figures you gave us at the beginning I I seem to remember that you sell a lot more water abroad than in this country . |
| 9 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 10 | And … and she set us to the station , and … and Mama promised to write . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ We were worried stiff , ’ she chided as she bustled us into the kitchen . |
| 12 | ‘ We got out of jail in Dublin and despite winning both games , they played us off the park ’ he claimed . |
| 13 | I mean Newcastle , we went to Newcastle and they showed us round the ground er when there was no match on and we saw the trophies and the directors ' box and various places like that . |
| 14 | They followed us into the sitting room |
| 15 | yeah , well they called us in the canteen |
| 16 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 17 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 18 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 19 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 20 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 21 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 22 | A GREAT big thank you to the people of Liverpool , especially for the magnificent reception they gave us on the march-past on Saturday morning . |
| 23 | They resented us in the beginning but I think as the years have gone by and they have seen the facilities that a new town has brought to their advantage I think they 're more acceptable now , but they did resent us in the beginning . |
| 24 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 25 | He led us across the antechamber to show us a tar-drenched jacket lined with sulphur which hung from a hook on the wall . |
| 26 | He led us into the house and introduced us to his two nieces , Nosheen and Simeen . |
| 27 | Our smiles of anticipation dimmed somewhat when he led us into the coffee shop , but he was a good sort and I hope we did not embarrass him . |
| 28 | He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me . |
| 29 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 30 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |