Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Once again Abbot Bere came to greet us in the guest house , accompanied by a monk who had been absent at our earlier meeting . |
| 3 | ‘ I was in Boston when the word came through that Derrygonnelly had beaten us in the championship . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |