Example sentences of "he [verb] us [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead he told us sombrely of the deprivations of St Antony . |
| 2 | There were tears in the eyes of the farmer as he shook us warmly by the hand . |
| 3 | He addressed us now for the first time , in far more lucid Indonesian than we had ever heard from his elders . |
| 4 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
| 5 | He ran us all over the shop . |