Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I registered us as Mr and Mrs Wyatt . ’ |
| 2 | She took a painting someone gave us as a wedding present . |
| 3 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 4 | I wanted us to be honest with each other , and I rushed into it , hoping you would understand . ’ |
| 5 | Back to the beginning , and the archery shafts which led us into carbon tubes and the generation of so many new designs for steerable aerobatic kites . |
| 6 | The cave itself was surprisingly warm and we realised we were walking through a gallery which led us into a lofty underground cavern . |
| 7 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 8 | It proved impossible to block the jets of spindrift which sought us with every gust of the noisily strengthening wind and settled on our Gore-Tex bivvy-bags , making them ineffective unless constantly shaken clear . |
| 9 | Then they also turned down our application to have Gay News in the library , which provided us with further ammunition and an unexpected new member . |
| 10 | 'E told us on Sunday at the sermon . |
| 11 | The effects of the adrenaline which prepared us for a fight or flight situation actually work against us when we can not do either . |
| 12 | In the particular instance we ordered a Grub Street title using the information given in the 1993 Directory of Book Publishers , which directed us to ‘ Chris Lloyd Sales and Marketing ’ . |
| 13 | No , somebody told us about it did n't they ? |
| 14 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
| 15 | ‘ I managed to win a few line-out takes and the backrow picked up a bit of their possession which pleased us as a unit . |
| 16 | .. When , at about 3 o'clock in the afternoon we rounded the last promontory which separated us from what was once the magnificent panorama of St Pierre , we suddenly perceived at the opposite extremity of the roadstead the Riviere Blanche with its crest of vapour , rushing madly into the sea . |
| 17 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 18 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 19 | Nobody stormed us with pitch forks , or even shouted ‘ hoi , you ’ , as we opened and closed gates along the private section of road . |
| 20 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 22 | Their advice was ignored and the tough decisions taken in 1981 were to lead to the much praised Budget of the next year and , even more , to the economic recovery which took us through both the 1983 and 1987 general elections . |
| 23 | And in order to assess the wind speed , we had to climb up a perpendicular outside iron staircase , which took us onto the flat roof of Flying Control . |
| 24 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 25 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 26 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 27 | A typical example of this was a patrol we carried out in Valiant that summer , which took us from Newlyn to Swansea , a passage of some ten hours . |
| 28 | Flesh dollies like Sheri Dean and the Sobell Skaters brought out a disc entitled ‘ Make Someone Happy ( this Christmas ) ’ which exhorted us to ‘ spread the word and light the lights , ca n't you feel the town is bright ? ’ |
| 29 | The rationing of food and of clothes , the air raid warnings which sent us into shelters , the trains which ran late and were always overcrowded , these things became an accepted part of life . |
| 30 | which brought us to Cracow . |