Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] us [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 2 | Before he arrived Mum made us children bustle about making the place ‘ spic an' span ’ to create a better impression on the visitors who were expected to drop by to pay their last respects to the memory of a notable local character . |
| 3 | in the top flat , they , they were rehoused in a flat in a block of mansion flats and when I came out of the army this was the accommodation I found available , er for me and I objected strongly and after a great deal of fuss erm the Islington Borough Council 's Housing Department found us rooms on the first floor in a Victoria Victorian villa in Penventon Gardens , which erm , were comfortable |
| 4 | We began to understand the root cause when senior process engineer Tom Alcorn showed us work done ten years previously on similar plants . |
| 5 | It was a Sunday , and the coach took us south of the border to the dusty town of Tia Juana where the passengers wandered about looking for souvenirs and tequila . |
| 6 | On the contrary , nothing from our coverage of the Communist party and its Peace Committee gave us grounds to suspect that they were manipulating C.N.D. |
| 7 | We were so far behind the group that King Hussein got us permission to fly the pipeline across Saudi Arabia ; the group which did not have the same permission had to backtrack to Luxor , before crossing the Arabian Peninsula . |
| 8 | ‘ Matthew notified us Monday morning and her car was reported in Exeter station car-park on Thursday — been there since Monday morning at least . |
| 9 | Late November found us weather bound at Gt Yarmouth with a stiff north-easter which , after one aborted attempt at continuing northward , had sent us scurrying back to Yarmouth . |
| 10 | The koko served us tea as we sat in the middle of the boma after the cattle had gone . |
| 11 | If Althusser gave us history without a subject , Habermas gives us subjects without history . |
| 12 | I 'm amazed Vic allowed us letters . |
| 13 | But we still went on enjoying ourselves immensely for the officers handed us chocolates and were very kind . |
| 14 | I stammered out a fairly acceptable reason for declining their invitation to make a personal appearance at the songs premiere , and very shortly Mala and I were back on our ship as Posi took us off-planet , with much relief all round . |
| 15 | A serving wench brought us flagons of watered beer . |
| 16 | We knew he 'd taken a survival kit and space blanket on his trip , and that knowledge gave us hope . |
| 17 | However , most agencies refused us access , except to a minority of birth parents whose children were freed for adoption , often against their wishes . |
| 18 | And he came back to er and started again and er he 'd just er er the big manufacturer engineering er people made us lace machines then and they started him off with three , and he 'd paid off one and part of the other when he died . |
| 19 | ‘ The captain fed us bits of information about decompression and what to do , and after 10 minutes we were told we were returning to Birmingham because of a shattered windscreen on the aircraft . |
| 20 | People offered us support , financial and whatnot , but we needed physical support , we 're a very small community and in a way we were left on our own . |
| 21 | At one station a nice old Burmese woman brought us limes — her old arms scratched by the thorns — she asked no payment , it was her gift of love to this train load of refugees . |
| 22 | ‘ A charitable woman who had been active in the Nationalist movement gave us rooms in an old house and collected money from her friends . |
| 23 | ‘ Cynthia gave us pork pies and pickled cabbage . ’ |
| 24 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 25 | So people gave us money for the stamps that we put on and other people gave us donations . |
| 26 | Room maids told us guests were asking for lighter duvets , and suggested we improve signs as guests were constantly asking for directions . |
| 27 | So when Scotland Yard sent us photographs of criminals that we were dealing with , we used to have to take this descriptive form and photograph to Walters the photographers in Plane , and he charged sixpence to copy the photograph . |
| 28 | ‘ This telephone has rung four times in this house since it was installed in January , and the first call brought us news of the Glasgow Ribbon Society , the Fenian Dynamitards destroying the Tradeston gas-works in which my poor husband has substantial interests . |
| 29 | We arrived at a Roman Catholic church where kind ladies gave us food and blankets , and soon we were all cosily asleep on the hard church floor . |
| 30 | Birthtales gave us insight into the most essential human experience , birth , where artists from different cultural backgrounds found a common ground . |