Example sentences of "[v-ing] [prep] us at [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ One tea , ’ says Ida , appearing beside us at the table , ‘ with eggs , tomatoes , chips and beans . ’ |
| 2 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 3 | Financially , and for security , the English scene has a bit more going for us at the moment . |
| 4 | If your grandmother 's not waiting for us at a hotel , then where — ? ’ |
| 5 | Late in the morning Valeria suggested we should all go down and have breakfast , and as we came down the staircase we saw to our horror that her mother was waiting for us at the bottom . |
| 6 | The steward was waiting for us at the foot of the steps . |
| 7 | As the years have passed , he 's started waiting for us at the door on visitors ' days . |
| 8 | ‘ Sophia will be waiting for us at the vicarage , ’ said Mrs Grandison . |
| 9 | Mr Trelawney was waiting for us at an inn , near the sea . |
| 10 | After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays . |
| 11 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 12 | On Friday 4th March we all went out of Peking by bus to spend a morning at a commune — part of the ‘ Open-Door Schooling ’ policy , the idea being that by interpreting for us at the commune , and by collecting information etc. , the students could improve their English , and also devise suitable English-teaching materials based on commune life . |
| 13 | There should be a car waitin' fur us at the airport when we get in to Lima . |
| 14 | He was waitin' fur us at the airport , a mean-faced little mestizo dressed in a pale blue suit . |
| 15 | You can do things for yourself in the way of diet , exercise , good lifestyle , not smoking and so on but , a lot of women will need hormone replacement therapy just to replace the hormones that dear old mother nature stop supplying to us at the menopause . |