Example sentences of "[vb past] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 2 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 3 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 4 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 5 | This provided us with fantastic entertainment , and more seriously , a talking point about respecting peoples views — particularly within our church communities . |
| 6 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 7 | During the Rugby World Cup , ITV provided us with up-beat , detailed match coverage . |
| 8 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 9 | First the then the uniform , then you go and wait for the envelope to come through the door , and it did , reported us to Agricultural College for a month 's training . |
| 10 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 11 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 12 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 13 | Sir Austin Pearce , one of the NRM 's guardians , told us via muffled a Tannoy ( uncannily similar to a real station announcement ) that the NRM would not merely look to the past , but also to the present and the future of rail . |
| 14 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 15 | Dr Theo Angelov , President of the Baptist Union of Bulgaria , addressed the Wednesday evening rally on ‘ People to People in Europe ’ , when he told us of faithful Christian witness over a period of 40 years by many in his country living through extreme conditions and hardships under Communist rule . |
| 16 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 17 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 18 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |
| 19 | A moment later , Dr Livesey , Gray , and Ben Gunn joined us with smoking guns , from among the trees . |
| 20 | ‘ You joined us from Central Records , I see . |
| 21 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 22 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 23 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 24 | Well Margaret guided us to ruddy Conway in er , anyway , we got there and we had a bit of a bar snack did n't we ? |
| 25 | Our first steps off the Spyway road took us through green and pleasant farmland where playful sheep frolicked alongside and a lone tractor droningly went about its work . |
| 26 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 27 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 28 | Our first day 's walk took us along stony tracks , through forests of birch and pine and into a narrow valley . |
| 29 | Turning north took us between Godrevy Point and Godrevy Island . |
| 30 | However in doing so you deprived us of detailed insights into the conditions of life in other parts of the world , and played into the hands of the New Right with its ‘ divide and conquer ’ tactics . |