Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We allowed them to see us at our most absurd . |
| 2 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 3 | These proud people who carry all their possessions with them pity us for our rooted existence in cities . |
| 4 | ‘ I registered us as Mr and Mrs Wyatt . ’ |
| 5 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 6 | I want us to be together in the next life . ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Because I want us to be friends . |
| 8 | ‘ I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 9 | ’ I want us to be positive , even though Chelsea deserve respect because of the very impressive run they 've had . |
| 10 | I want us to be friends . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ But I want us to be clear about what we 're doing . |
| 12 | ‘ Whatever Scotland 's team , I want us to be creative enough to make the Maltese worry without being in any way self conscious about problems that are in the past , ’ concluded the national coach . |
| 13 | I want us to be where we belong , at the very heart of Europe . |
| 14 | ‘ What have I got us into ? ’ |
| 15 | I exclude us from that category . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | I wanted us to be honest with each other , and I rushed into it , hoping you would understand . ’ |
| 18 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 'E told us on Sunday at the sermon . |
| 21 | ‘ Now that we have killed off Rex and Woodbum , we seem to have killed off our chances of having them lead us to the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 22 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 23 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 24 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 25 | You got us into this , was my uncharitable thought , now you hold the fort while we climb out of it . |
| 26 | I do n't know , it was just a novelty , we 'd never ever , I remember an , an aunt of ours that lived in Plymouth near us , she had a house with an upstairs , but she had a downstairs toilet , so we never got to go upstairs you know it 's just one of those stupid things I suppose , I , I thought it was great and another attraction was I think one of the main reasons you got us to really want to come to Harlow was the fact that we 'd have a television |
| 27 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 28 | She led us past a series of dun-walled anterooms through whose windows the burnished leagues of the East River fired off all their flame . |
| 29 | You forgave us our sins , you cleansed us from all unrighteousness . |
| 30 | But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged . |