Example sentences of "[vb past] us [to-vb] in the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 2 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 3 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 4 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 5 | a star and wanted us to share in the good luck . |