Example sentences of "they [verb] us [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are only two types of doubt among many others , but they introduce us directly to the heart of our problem . |
| 2 | With little choice they drove us sullenly to the hotel . |
| 3 | Even the endlessly patient bicycle rickshaw drivers muttered curses under their breath as they drove us uphill through the narrowing funnel of tightly-packed houses . |
| 4 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 5 | Proust 's Faubourg St Germain was acutely aware of differences between them , but they tell us little about the distribution of power in France . |
| 6 | I always bake of a Wednesday , just like my mother used to — two saffron cakes and a tray of buns they last us nicely through the week . ’ |
| 7 | Such questions go well beyond the scope of this book , but they point us away from the epistemological frame of reference of this chapter towards the socio-cultural one of the next . |
| 8 | The importance of these articles is that they remind us forcibly of the false dawn which often surrounds new treatments . |
| 9 | They marched us regularly to the top of Castle Hill where we fired off every conceivable type of weapon ; twelve bores , .22 rifles , revolvers , Browning machine guns . |
| 10 | Keyboard-player Winnie Williams , said : ‘ They chased us all over the terminal . |
| 11 | They beat us all over the park . ’ |