Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] us [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Basically we were told to do it , and if we did n't do it we 'd got us money dropped . |
| 2 | ‘ Dad had taken us shopping and he 'd bought us loads of things — extravagant presents that were sort of unnecessary . |
| 3 | Propaganda had given us indigestion , and reports of how many aeroplanes had been destroyed and how many ships had been sunk were becoming monotonous if not unbelievable . |
| 4 | It had given us stability for the past forty years . |
| 5 | The entry of Britain into the Common Market in 1973 had given us access to a 10% repayment scheme of the Consolidated Fund , allowed under EEC rules , and it was from this source that the money would come for the expansion of the Customs fleet . |
| 6 | I eventually came round in the Chamden General Hospital and on the slab next to me was club chairman , Ken Mentle , an oxygen pump beside him , a nurse frantically thumping his chest and Ken rambling deliriously about a Micky Deere scorcher from the penalty spot which had given us victory . |
| 7 | We paid a final courtesy call on General Aziz , Werner 's friend who had lent us Abu and his jeep to film the Toraja . |
| 8 | He and his wife had offered us accommodation with them from the time my curacy finished until after the expedition . |
| 9 | By way of atonement they had brought us presents . |
| 10 | The issue surfaced again at Cabinet on 30 September when I warned colleagues that the leaking of the CPRS report had caused us damage . |