Example sentences of "[adv] [pron] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Quickly he immerses us in the euphoria of the Israelites and the terror and bravado of their enemies . |
| 2 | Er , but councillor other remark about the labour party moving towards the conservatives is of course a very fair one , but then surely nothing surprises us at the moment about the labour party . |
| 3 | How well they remind us of the purpose for which the ark has been fetched ! |
| 4 | yeah , well they called us in the canteen |
| 5 | But that realisation should not be a disappointment : rather it liberates us from the job of creating masterpieces , and gives us a much more achievable task . |
| 6 | Two there 's the one with Judith and I and then you join us for the last session . |
| 7 | Then she shut us in the byre — and we stayed there a long time ! |
| 8 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 9 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 10 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 11 | 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 ! ) . |
| 12 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 13 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |