Example sentences of "[coord] [pers pn] [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
| 2 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 3 | And … and she set us to the station , and … and Mama promised to write . ’ |
| 4 | The manager was okay — all she wanted was to get the place calmed down — and she showed us out the back way . ’ |
| 5 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
| 6 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 7 | ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’ |
| 8 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 9 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 10 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 11 | They influenced our BEHAVIOUR and they drew us into the realms of MYSTERY . |
| 12 | The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast . |
| 13 | I mean Newcastle , we went to Newcastle and they showed us round the ground er when there was no match on and we saw the trophies and the directors ' box and various places like that . |
| 14 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 15 | We left and he followed us to the church door . |
| 16 | Fortunately , the landlord had n't seen our arrival and he served us with a smile and an offer of menus . |
| 17 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 18 | One of the Ness men was acting as guide and he took us to a rock bothy which the men use during their stay . |
| 19 | We were a little disappointed — or at least I was — with David because he was n't in a dress and he was n't nearly as crazy as we thought he would be , but nevertheless , we liked his music a lot and he introduced us from the audience and Cherry Vanilla stood up and popped out a tit for the other 20 people , and David said that we were doing Pork . |
| 20 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 21 | And he leaves us with the teasing comment : ‘ Weizmann 's fermentation process with regard to oil works ; but that , for the moment , is all that can be stated . |
| 22 | ‘ My father ruled us with an iron fist and he hit us with an iron fist too , ’ Joe recalls . |
| 23 | And he instructs us in the way of life ! |
| 24 | ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned . |
| 25 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 26 | It 's very friendly And it followed us into the lane several times and then we 'd chase it back |
| 27 | We all do things together and it lifted us for the game on Saturday . |
| 28 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 29 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 30 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |