Example sentences of "us came " in BNC.

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1 There was no need for free milk like other school children received , because most of us came from farms with cows , so we brought our own .
2 And at that moment , the two people that usually took over from us came round the corner , poked their heads round and said ‘ Oh hello , fancy seeing you here , we just thought we 'd pop round to say goodbye . ’
3 Fifteen minutes later , having banged and bumped our way up another track heading directly for the low hills , the two of us came to the small tin-roofed hut which I had imagined and there , standing before it , was the single link required to bring Balboa 's journey and mine into their final conjunction .
4 First , as the whole island trembled like jelly , from way beneath us came what sounded like a giant rustling great sheets of brown wrapping-paper .
5 Most of the textbooks , were handed to us came from cupboards of storage , of which they must have had about sixty each , those classes were always , from then on , sixty boys in a class for one teacher .
6 Er , so two of us came in sixty-one the third one , youngest one , came in sixty- five .
7 It 's a terraced house and er , it 's double storey , two floors up and er , it was well-used at that time because the reason was one er , there was n't much accommodation available and secondly it is the custom amongst our people that who 's ever er is in need we have the person , like the two of us came from India , my brother and myself , so we di could n't get a job .
8 From somewhere in front of us came one more hopeless scream .
9 We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off
10 Now remember we all of us came from the background that , you know this world was going to come to an end very soon .
11 As the crowd of us came out of the car , he leaned backwards over Mr Quigley 's fence and spat , slowly and deliberately , into the geraniums .
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