Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us at " in BNC.

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1 We thought all was well until the Battlebus passed us at full speed in the opposite direction .
2 So , on a board the apparent wind we experience when we travel at 10 knots in a 10 knot cross-wind will be a 14 knot wind hitting us at 45 degrees .
3 Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner .
4 So the real question facing us at the moment is not whether there should be a relationship , or whether there should be a link but in what way we should modernize it and arrange it today .
5 A genuinely warm welcome awaited us at Les Trois Mousquetaires , our hotel , which is run by the Venet family .
6 ‘ Take these gold coins and go , beg your lady to join us at Inverkeithing .
7 It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag .
8 Where the SPRU team takes us at a brisk trot through the literature , Jan Zimmerman adopts more of a wild canter in her survey of the likely effects on women of a range of new technologies , in a piece that makes up in polemic what it lacks in argument .
9 After all if we say , ‘ I did n't appreciate that remark , ’ that tells the world something about us , and we may perceive that it is unwise to let people know that the remark disturbs us at all so we do not share our feelings .
10 The amount of a christian 's concern for these issues should not be based upon denominational preference or doctrinal bias , but upon a willingness to allow the compassion of loving God to affect us at the deepest level of our beings .
11 Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success .
12 Your votes count by mail or phone — and by telephoning your choice you have the chance to join us at our superb Dorchester luncheon .
13 Your votes count by mail or phone — and by telephoning your choice you have the chance to join us at our superb Dorchester luncheon .
14 Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election .
15 One of these took Venturous to the Bristol Channel and the South Wales ' ports , and a later one was made to the north of Scotland with the Board joining us at Aberdeen .
16 And of course , from my own professional viewpoint , it is clear that even after a break of so many years , Miss Kenton would prove the perfect solution to the problem at present besetting us at Darlington Hall .
17 Morning found us at Gullfoss hastily trying to organize sleeping and eating .
18 ‘ A man met us at the door and said his wife Sheila Brown was still in the bungalow .
19 And bittern booming followed us at intervals all day .
20 ‘ I 'll never forget the reception the crowd gave us at the end . ’
21 Our host greeted us at the entrance gate , shaking me by the hand , bowing to Olivia , embracing the mali and frowning at Balvinder Singh .
22 In 1896 while sculling at Putney , an oarsman had been sunk by a stone-throwing youth , and in the following year there was a complaint that a yacht 's skylight had been broken at Lambeth Bridge and then ‘ a shower of horse dung greeted us at Chelsea ’ .
23 My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell .
24 Now of course all this is fascinating in its own way , and it no doubt leads us at least onto the fringes of an entertaining piece of social history .
25 The song of a nightingale greeted us at the entrance to Hotel Glade .
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