Example sentences of "[verb] us [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Suddenly I was frightened because he had once caught us playing in the churchyard and had shouted at us and chased us out . |
| 2 | To John , for taking the snaps , and to all the others for keeping us going with cups of tea . |
| 3 | The first time she found us chatting in the yard she rushed up and dragged me away . |
| 4 | Dawn , despite its revelation of an ominous pall hanging over the mountains , found us hitching towards Cairngorm . |
| 5 | It is this rage which draws us in , which has us participating in Hemingway 's feelings before we know it , that makes the piece so powerful . |
| 6 | Well she stopped us going up that lane in the car , by |
| 7 | that hold us wriggling in our condition . |
| 8 | But Coun Robson said : ‘ It will not prevent us corresponding with Pavlovo but whether it will delay any civic visits from Russia remains to be seen . ’ |
| 9 | 1992 has been a truly historic year for Napier and we are delighted to share with you , our former students , some of the moments which have seen us metamorphosing into a university . |
| 10 | The last few months alone have seen us tripping over stranger and stranger Techno records born of computer game consoles and febrile imaginations , wave after seemingly inexhaustible wave of new rap , the grimy grungy hordes of post-Nirvana American noiseniks and the endless fireworks let off by our homegrown rock scene . |
| 11 | What would employees below think to hear us shouting at the top of our voices about what is and what is not the correct Chinaman ? ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I would n't like the Boss to hear us talking like this , ’ added Bodie . |
| 13 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 14 | I would n't normally say anything like this but having drawn 4 out of our last 5 games then I ca n't even see us qualifying for europe anymore . |
| 15 | Somehow I ca n't see us remaining in the number two position — but fingers crossed scumta will strike down our foes and inspire out team to greater things and we 'll go on to win the league . |
| 16 | He does n't like us talking like this . |
| 17 | ‘ Yeah , ’ Billy yawned back , ‘ should keep us going for a week at least . ’ |
| 18 | main problem at the moment is that they want one person to deal , cos at the moment we 've got us dealing with national account and we 've got dealing with the regional account managers and sales execs dealing with the individual branches and I think things are getting lost as it goes from one to the other |
| 19 | got us wading through |
| 20 | In so far as there is surveillance of us , we tend to feel it is largely intended for our own good , to avoid us getting into difficult situations , etc … |
| 21 | You may remember the last thing the suede coat did before crashing down the alley was to blast off his sawn-off shotgun and watch us diving to the ground . |
| 22 | He said he used to imagine us lying in bed together . |
| 23 | Do you remember us talking about politics at any point ? ’ |
| 24 | We , we actually lived in th the corner shop is right on the corner if you 've come up High street on the bus and your Co-op would be on that corner , your church and your Co-op 's on the corner , and just turns there and I only lived just down that street , so we never had to have it delivered because we just popped up er and my brother and I , I can so remember us going with our two big bags you know and we , you know how you do when families meet you know and he 'll say that 's the time , because dad , we never knew dad hit us and yet you 'd of thought he was , we , we were so scared it must have been his voice you know , that he erm that we was so scared that everything was all correct from the Co- op . |
| 25 | I do n't mind us looking at some funny ideas , ’ said Georgiades , ‘ but let's not go crazy . ’ |
| 26 | I 'm sure he wo n't mind us going into his kitchen . ’ |
| 27 | He were n't very brisk in the morning , and often we were a bit late getting off the mark ourselves ; but he did n't mind us working beyond six in the evening — we did n't get paid for that ! |
| 28 | Practical inexperience and rare encounters did not stop us talking about boys . |
| 29 | But that does not stop us yearning for a glamorous tan . |
| 30 | Lack of money prevents us eating properly when we are children , ruins our health , rots our teeth , makes our parents quarrel and take to drink , stops us having the clothes we want , the friends we like , the parties we long for , stops us having the tuition which would enable us to get an education — makes us end up street sweepers and not doctors ; induces women to have babies because there is no money for travel or entertainment , or to leave the parental home any other way : lack of money humiliates us all our lives : lack of money makes us live with husbands or wives we no longer love : lack of money makes us age earlier than we need : makes our hands rough with toil and our brows creased with anxiety : keeps us weeping by day and sleepless by night : the terror in our lives is the bill through the door which ca n't be paid : our lives close in the knowledge of failure — we failed to make enough money . |