Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] us a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | This year he found for us a first edition of an early play by Samuel Beckett , an important book about China , and the original German text of theopera DerFreischütz , as well as other lovely things . |
2 | ‘ She seemed to us a shining light , who did a lot for Liverpool . |
3 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
4 | This happened to us a few years back . |
5 | Loch Ranza opened to us a complete change of scene : there were houses , a church , an inn , and even the old castle was allowed to retain its site , and guide the fishers in their homeward course . |
6 | He shared with us a singular fascination for tropical waters and everything in them , and had acquired the franchise for scuba equipment for the whole of the Moluccas . |
7 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
8 | Everything at Berbera was unfamiliar and exciting : the barren , burnt-up countryside , so very different from the highlands of Abyssinia ; the camel herds at the wells ; the gaunt , half-naked Somalis with great mops of hair , leaning on their spears and talking a harsh incomprehensible language ; the bugle calls ; the uniformed troops drilling on their parade ground , and especially an evening when they staged for us a realistic attack with blank ammunition on a position " held " by tribesmen . |