Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A bomb hit us in the night , d' ya not know that ? |
| 2 | We found that the walk to Fuglafjell was farther ( and much rougher ) than we had anticipated , so we persuaded a fisherman to take us to the bird cliffs in his boat . |
| 3 | Today , the average intake of 20g a day puts us among the lowest fibre-consumers in the world . |
| 4 | ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow . |
| 5 | For example , historical materialism may have a lot to tell us about the political economy of immigrant labour and the unequal exchange between metropolitan capitalism and the third world , but it has proved quite incapable of grasping the micro-foundations of racist ideologies . |
| 6 | The song of a nightingale greeted us at the entrance to Hotel Glade . |
| 7 | Secondly , he must be ‘ absolutely assured that the High Command was in a position to furnish us with the necessary men and material for the continuance of the offensive , and that not by driblets , but on a large scale ’ Thirdly , the campaign should be halted the moment ‘ we ourselves were losing more heavily and becoming exhausted more rapidly than the enemy ’ . |
| 8 | A symbol calls us into the realms of MYSTERY , introduces us into an awareness which can not be attained by mere thought . |
| 9 | ‘ Look here : that was in broad daylight over a single strand of wire , not under fire from any machine guns , and with no patrolling goon with a gun to meet us on the other side . |
| 10 | A chasm separates us from the other side and now we are looking round for the bridge . ’ |