Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] us [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Giffen led us into a room on the left . |
2 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
3 | Mrs Spencer asked us to tea ; they pressed us , so we accepted . |
4 | Ken asked us for |
5 | What I am saying here now is not hearsay , this is what David telled us in his Bible meetings . |
6 | When Heg told us about TIE 's contacts in Brazil , we wrote to them . |
7 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
8 | ‘ Nevil told us about your family . |
9 | Yeah I was surprised that er Kathleen is it , when Kathleen told us down street about her , her son |
10 | We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school . |
11 | Barrymore showed us to our rooms . |
12 | Richard joined us for dinner , though he ate cautiously . |
13 | When we moved from Freiberg , Rebecca followed us at a distance . |
14 | Bragad took us by surprise . |
15 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
16 | Barney took us to the airport , and when we arrived next day in Hong Kong , it was warm and sunny . |
17 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
18 | Richard Branson saved us over the boredom . |
19 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
20 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
21 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
22 | When Dennis summoned us to table , I ended up with Karen on one side of me and the computer analyst 's wife on the other . |
23 | The Sandfords provided us with an elderly Amhara called Habta Mariam as cook . |
24 | The Club Captain , John Gunne and Lady Captain , Josie McPhillips joined us for the Outing and for the evening celebrations . |
25 | Nigel coaxed us towards wide open slopes beside the towering peaks of the Vert and Les Drus . |
26 | Doone followed us into the kitchen , removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit . |
27 | The Feldwebel took us to a German Red Cross canteen . |
28 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
29 | Frances joined us from PMD where she worked in marketing Bullion Products for two years , prior to that she had worked in marketing at the Financial Times . |
30 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |