Example sentences of "[verb] us [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time he drops us in Earls Court , the back of his cab smells like we dropped a bottle of brandy . |
| 2 | He coasts it through Southwark to the Old Vic , crosses Waterloo Bridge , heads west along the Strand into Trafalgar Square — empty of pigeons in the dove-grey light — mooches out through the West End , glides round Hyde Park Corner as if it was always free of traffic , and drops us in Earls Court like it was just the street next door . |
| 3 | Oliver 's serenade will introduce us to Vitellia and Sesto , Annio and Servillia , and the Emperor Titus — ‘ and it will be clear that the first couple have a really terrible time , and that the second pair have a really nice time , and that the last gent , the one who does n't get married at the end , has to reconcile the emotions of the other four in himself . ’ |
| 4 | They persecute us , they crowd us out , they send us to Coventry , they sneer at us , they yawn at us , they blindfold themselves and stuff up their ears . |
| 5 | Greenstein has reminded us of Marshall McLuhan 's distinction between " hot " and " cool " media , " hot " media presenting a complete pattern of stimuli , " cool " presenting an incomplete pattern and therefore requiring greater processing and hence a higher level of engagement on the reader 's part . |
| 6 | He depicted the life of enslaved mine workers in dark colours , and was altogether sensitive to the suffering of the humble ( as Professor Strasburger has reminded us in Journ . |
| 7 | ‘ Leeds were on top of their game when they thrashed us at Hillsborough in January , ’ said defender Nigel Worthington . |
| 8 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 9 | Then , as you say , Dr McDonald visited us in Cambridge , liked what we were doing and announced his intention of setting up an institute here in Cambridge for research into archaeology . |
| 10 | It was a form of meditational surrender and possession by a higher form of energy which first drew us to Indonesia , and the Subud ashram in Java . |
| 11 | Five years ago , the Queen invited us to Buckingham Palace . |
| 12 | The church had been carefully laid out and constructed , but the basic unit of measurement had eluded us until December 1982 , when Michael Vickers of the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford , a former member of the excavation-team , suggested that it might be the cubit , and , specifically , the long cubit . |
| 13 | Morning found us at Gullfoss hastily trying to organize sleeping and eating . |
| 14 | The English beat us in Cardiff , the French destroyed us , it 's really very bad . |
| 15 | One focus is Jesus , who reveals the love of God for us , and so reconciles us to God , ; the other is the spiritual and ethical community which he founded . |
| 16 | I 'm going to write this letter over the next few days , and give it to , of the British Embassy , when he visits us on Wednesday . |
| 17 | Omar had arranged for Beyyene , a negadi or muleteer , to meet us at Mojjo Station , sixty miles down the line , with his men and twenty pack mules , and we sent Kassimi , Goutama and Makonnen ahead with our own animals to join him there . |
| 18 | We felt pretty helpless in the train , as we did not know whether any arrangements had been made to meet us at Canton , but at the station we were welcomed by a Min. of Education official , together with a teacher-interpreter from Canton university , who surprised us with his urbane manner , excellent English , and his knowledge that David Owen had just been made the substantive Foreign Secretary to replace Anthony Crossland ( and that , incidentally , is about the last news we have heard about affairs in the U.K. ! ) . |
| 19 | I 'll telephone someone I know in COBRA and ask him to meet us at Melbury Court . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Panic wanted to sell us to Albania but Arkan is a hero . |
| 21 | A Whig tract of 1711 argued that " The Revolution was almost entirely owing to them [ Tories ] " , whilst the Nonconformist Daniel Defoe repeatedly replied to the charge made by High Churchmen in Anne 's reign that the Dissenters had been responsible for the murder of Charles , by reminding them what they " did to his Son " : " if they will go back to 48 , and provoke us to Recriminate , by telling us of Killing the Father ; let us bring them back to 88 , and tell them of Deposing the Son , and sending him Abroad to beg his Bread " . |
| 22 | He had missed us at Alassio and followed the train in his car , he had something to speak to her about . |
| 23 | It 's the usual imaginative , expensive production , in this case whisking us from London to New York to New Orleans . |
| 24 | Part lecture , part slide show , part comedy act , it is Miller 's take on Noakes ' life , whisking us from John 's fledgling years in Halifax , through to startling revelations about Valerie Singleton , Joy Division and Shep 's death , and finally to Majorca , where he comes face to face with his hero . |
| 25 | Nothing could have prepared us for Holmes ( named after Sherlock Holmes as his ears resembled the detectives hat ) . |
| 26 | Gratitude that the Scottish Football Association and Scottish Rugby Union have apparently stopped insulting us with Scotland the Brave is not reason enough to allow them to inflict ‘ the people 's choice ’ upon us . |
| 27 | Monsieur Truffer came in our car and directed us through Cherbourg and up to Bourbourg , which is on a hillside rising behind the east side of the Harbour . |
| 28 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
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