Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
2 | He moved towards us across the road . |
3 | George made his Football League debut for the Palace up at Bury — he equalised for us before the break , hit the bar soon after the interval and then set up Ben Bateman for the winner . |
4 | ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’ |
5 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
6 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
7 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
8 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
9 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
10 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
11 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
12 | People came to us after the meeting , we met this lady and er she was really interested in our cause . |
13 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
14 | David and Catherine shared with us during the evening service on December 29th , and explained how God had led David from being a car mechanic into the mission field in Brazil . |
15 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |
16 | He grinned at us through the darkness . |
17 | ‘ Our area has been pedestrianised , and while we are convinced that this benefited us in the summer , it worked against us in the winter . |
18 | That 's when Major , who was on the photo , he was Major in the army of nineteen fourteen eighteen M C Major M C , military cross well he took charge and er a chap off the shop floor , well he was an old contemptible of the nineteen fourteen to eighteen war , name of Bert he was made Sergeant because he was only one who had got any military experience , and he started with us on the shop floor in doing foot drill . |
19 | Even our sonship , mediated to us by the Spirit , has this ambiguity about it . |
20 | Everyone waved at us from the street and were ever ready to help with directions . |
21 | ‘ But instead of being delighted with the result he complained to us about the beer . |
22 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
23 | Queen Margaret and Catesby glowered at us from the head of the table . |
24 | A fat unshaven man sat opposite us on the train eating guavas . |
25 | Well I remember being aboard the Brandon , because Uncle John came and stayed with us at the cliff and er , er father was at sea somewhere but he came and stayed with us and then he now went down into er to see his captain cos they were sailing on on the tide the next day . |
26 | Fine weather stayed with us for the remainder of our passage down the East coast . |
27 | The fog stayed with us throughout the night as we made painfully slow progress towards Hartlepool with bedtime stories on the radio of ships colliding and running aground to cheer us on our way . |
28 | For the first , and last time a guard travelled with us in the box . |
29 | George slid from us into the darkness . |