Example sentences of "[noun prp] [verb] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |
| 2 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 3 | Conor 's hit us with the big one . ’ |
| 4 | Once again Abbot Bere came to greet us in the guest house , accompanied by a monk who had been absent at our earlier meeting . |
| 5 | Sergeant Bragg remembered that your friend Aubrey Rivington has assisted us in the Past — through your good offices . |
| 6 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 7 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 8 | ‘ I was in Boston when the word came through that Derrygonnelly had beaten us in the championship . |
| 9 | As ever , time constraints meant that we could n't try absolutely everything , and so the Bass Centre 's manager Martin Gravestock agreed to guide us through the popular models within our categories , and we chose random examples from there . |
| 10 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 11 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 12 | He recalled an unsatisfactory meeting with President Carter , ‘ We had hardly got seated and Carter started lecturing us about the problems he had with one of the sections of the bill . |
| 13 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
| 14 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 15 | I could view the progress of the race from where I was standing , just before the home straight , and I could see that Elliott and Daley had kept us in the hunt . |
| 16 | And John 's got us onto the next one I see . |