Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 2 | Comforts and consolations may appear to wean us from the gifts to the Giver . |
| 3 | ‘ Perhaps you 'd like to tell us from the beginning , ’ said Montgomery softly . |
| 4 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 5 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 6 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 7 | You 'd have had us over the edge in a minute ! ’ |
| 8 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 9 | Werner came to our rescue with the loan of a hundred dollars , which would have to see us through the three or four months it might take us to reach Aru . |
| 10 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 11 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 12 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 13 | Erm , and we 've had , I 'm afraid to give protective notice to six members of staff , it 's about er , discussions with the erm , Tech , are not successful , then they will have to leave us at the end of this programme year , which is the thirty-first of March . |
| 14 | Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today . |
| 15 | ‘ They will try to shoot us in the light from the door . ’ |
| 16 | Our President has covered one or two major issues that concern us now and which will continue to concern us over the next few years . |
| 17 | The more he can find to dazzle us with the greater is the compliment that he pays to Eden . |