Example sentences of "be [verb] [prep] us at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Sophia will be waiting for us at the vicarage , ’ said Mrs Grandison . |
| 2 | To combat this recurrent worry , they had long since introduced random underpant inspections which could be sprung on us at the most absurd moment . |
| 3 | But in a reply to a letter from prospective Stockton South Labour MP John Scott , a senior ambulance officer says : ‘ The account was submitted not to the patient but to a relative whose name and address were given to us at the time of the booking . |
| 4 | They have come to their agreement , they have done their job well , and they have produced and excellent education system and the blip which he is talking about is one which is forced on us at the present time by a Conservative Government , who has decided that there is going to be no further expansion in the school service which we 're providing , and indeed is imposing upon us cuts which are going to mean that we reduce those services , and to argue that from a point of view that it 's a considered piece of policy from a Government which if I has introduced , if I may say , Poll Tax , an economy which is a disaster area , exports in nothing happening there , inflation |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The steward was waiting for us at the foot of the steps . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He was waitin' fur us at the airport , a mean-faced little mestizo dressed in a pale blue suit . |