Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] us [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I called us Murphy . |
| 2 | Instead she read us letters from a boy she had met in the holidays . |
| 3 | She made us tea as well |
| 4 | The day she found us infant boys and girls |
| 5 | WORKING MUMS : what you told us SOLVENT ABUSE The tragic waste of a boy called Danny WIN ! |
| 6 | She told us stories about her childhood in Clophill ( I think ) but she never told us anything unpleasant , whereas I remember one good lady who loved to horrify us with tales of ghastly happenings ! |
| 7 | ‘ Angela worked in the shop before she left school , delivering papers and when she left school she joined us fulltime . |
| 8 | She liked to see the new plays , and she paid us £10 a play . |
| 9 | She showed us trees with calabashes and wooden fruits , and a thicket of juicy ginger stalks which sheltered huge , pink plastic blossoms . |
| 10 | Next day I tried to question our landlady about walking to Ipsarion as she served us breakfast on the marble terrace under the walnut tree . |
| 11 | She owed us courtesy : she was a servant , she should have given in her notice . ’ |
| 12 | She brought us Parmesan and Italian vegetables and Mena to do an afternoon 's worth of sewing , but it never went right , she disapproved of us dreadfully . |
| 13 | And er , it took us a little time to do that but and it was alright , but , well , but she bought us doughnut in company . |
| 14 | And then that 's the one that you gave us copies cos you had you said you were gon na get five |
| 15 | And you gave us ta you gave him a , you gave us tablets . |
| 16 | Her Father had been a District Officer in N. Nigeria in the 1920's , and she gave us letters ; a diary ; some amazing old photographs and a telegram ; and , perhaps best of all , the mementoes of Piccin , the baby leopard reared by the family and then given to Edinburgh Zoo in 1929 . |
| 17 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 18 | ‘ She gave us nougat , ’ Samantha said . |
| 19 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |
| 20 | You wrote us messages on a pad , amused |
| 21 | We took us caravan up that way a few years ago I ca n't remember s what it called s sa what they call the men up there ? |
| 22 | which made it er very reasonable , very cheap really , we took us car there and that , but he 's coming back is this chap now |
| 23 | So anyway we had us dinner so he says he said it 'll take thee half an hour to get ready wo n't it ? |
| 24 | I mean they stopped us Friday did n't they ? |
| 25 | but erm , we 've got friends in the Methodist church and they told us things that er , you know , absolutely |
| 26 | yes , because my er , my niece 's husband when he came er , oh they brought us back , they fetched us Boxing Day and brought us back and he said it would be a right off he said |
| 27 | Embroidery embroidery and then they taught us French . |
| 28 | They called us Fascists and wrecked the cinema . |
| 29 | Our own lads were getting killed in Russia , so they sent us Belgians to play with their widows . |
| 30 | they offered us 3d per bay in lieu thereof . |