Example sentences of "[vb past] us in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 2 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 3 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 4 | To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top . |
| 5 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 6 | Now we had moved on to bigger and better things , this predictability still stood us in good stead . |
| 7 | This was only owr fift defeet in ten leeg games ( we allso went don 2- at Clansford ) so it stood us in good sted for owr Fst rownd match against Drizley Welfare in the ‘ FARMBOY SHEEP SCAB LINEMENT INTER-LEAGUE TROPHY ’ . |
| 8 | At least it stood us in good stead for Tuesday night 's game at Scrimley Arsenal , where we came away with a very creditable 2–4 defeat . |
| 9 | As we thawed out so our curling improved , which stood us in good stead when the tour progressed into the curling hotbed regions of Edmonton , Weyburn , Saskatoon and Calgary . |
| 10 | All of our Chief Executives accept er , cash generation targets erm , either cash generation or ratio of working capital to er , to sales and that kind of thing and erm , as well as er , profit to turn over issues and that 's er , stood us in good stead this year . |