Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 2 | ‘ Have you booked us into the same hotel , Drew ? |
| 3 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 4 | Professor Black 's TGAT report , for all its expensive complexity , has saved us from the test-led teaching that seemed at one time inevitable . |
| 5 | Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today . |
| 6 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 7 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 8 | Nothing had quite prepared us for the sheer presence of king penguins . |
| 9 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 10 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 11 | The C E C have had twelve months , the sections have been up and running , they should have learnt from the experiences over the last twelve months because all that they 've done is presented us with the same document with the exclusion of the one issue of the two year conference . |
| 12 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 13 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 14 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 15 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 16 | Too many people have seen us over the past two or three days so anything I do will be linked to you . |
| 17 | ‘ Now that we have killed off Rex and Woodbum , we seem to have killed off our chances of having them lead us to the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 18 | Our discussions of last week seem to have lead us to the Railway Tavern at 12–12:30 . |
| 19 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 20 | And John 's got us onto the next one I see . |
| 21 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
| 22 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 23 | Mr. Wilson : As the Minister reiterates his enthusiasm for bids that give workers a substantial say , does he consider that there is any conflict between that and what he has told us about the SDA investing £500,000 to ensure that such bids do not succeed ? |
| 24 | I believe that the accounts , whilst complying as John has just told us with the Companies Act , do give , I hope , as full and an informative picture as possible and therefore I do n't intend to talk about them in detail . |
| 25 | ‘ The City is certainly more inclined to look kindly on the film trade than before , and thus a considerable weight that has handicapped us in the past is removed ’ , remarked John Maxwell , as he launched British International Pictures ( BIP ) as a public company with interests in production , exhibition and distribution . |
| 26 | ‘ You 've sold us down the river , ’ became a familiar shout from across a crowded bar . |
| 27 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 28 | You 'd have had us over the edge in a minute ! ’ |
| 29 | Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ who has blessed us in the heavenly realms with every spiritual blessing in Christ . |
| 30 | UN officials have said stockpiled food may spoil , and Ms Landgren added that a shell which had damaged a warehouse on Saturday had also ‘ alerted us to the danger of letting stuff pile up . ’ |