Example sentences of "[be] [verb] us for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The latest flare-up between the two countries — following last summer 's ball-tampering claims and counter-claims — is a direct result of Graveney 's remarks following the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , when he said : ‘ They have been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 2 | After the infamous Mike Gatting-Shakoor Rana row in 1987 , Graveney , 65 , said of Pakistan : ‘ They 've been cheating us for 37 years and it is just getting worse and worse . ’ |
| 3 | The waste is a small perquisite that hath been granted us for several hundred years past , which we are able to prove by our ancient Books of Record , which have been no less than 14 or 15 times ratified and confirmed at the General Quarter Sessions . |
| 4 | They 've been hiring us for ten years but we , we ai n't gon na hire no more if they 're changing the bloody engines . |
| 5 | ‘ I have n't the faintest idea what you 're thanking us for . ’ |
| 6 | They 're persecuting us for our beliefs . ’ |
| 7 | The bill , th the , it 's three thousand pound , and they 're asking us for a thousand . |
| 8 | They 've stopped their work just now and they 're joining us for our morning worship along with some children from James Gillespie 's High School Choir . |
| 9 | They 're taking us for granted ! |
| 10 | She 's been recording us for an hour |
| 11 | There are no conditions specifically attached under the IDO but of course we have obligations — the county minerals officer will be pursuing us for restoration quite rightly — what we 'd like to do is go beyond the basic restoration and make it much better . |
| 12 | Will you be joining us for lunch ? |
| 13 | ‘ … and this is Folly , who will be joining us for the first time this weekend . |
| 14 | ‘ Something tells me you wo n't be joining us for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ I gather you 're going to be joining us for the world cruise ? ’ |
| 16 | Some people back there would be cursing us for raising so much dust . |
| 17 | ‘ Can we tek it then that thoo 'll be leaving us for this land of milk and honey ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ Although the name is new , many of the ideas forming general SVQs have been exercising us for years . |
| 19 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 20 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 21 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 22 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 23 | What is even worse is that desktop publishing delivers to the mass market at a ridiculously low price the technology that traditional electronic publishing system suppliers have been promising us for years — the ability to mix text and graphics freely on a page . |
| 24 | I know what I Know what it 's cost us for that weekend . |
| 25 | She 's meeting us for lunch , by the way . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |
| 27 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 28 | It is more likely that the Secretary of State for the Environment is preparing us for what used to be called ribbon development and pock-marked urban sprawl stretching from Stratford to Southend , with unfettered market forces destroying the flora and fauna and every living thing that gets in its way . |
| 29 | David Green who held the combined post of Overseas Director and Senior Administrative Officer is leaving us for other employment . |
| 30 | He was teaching us for er physics and er |