Example sentences of "done us " in BNC.
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| 1 | I never thought I 'd say that a sneak thief had done us a favour . |
| 2 | I rise to return thanks on behalf of my fellow guests and myself for the honour you have done us , and the pleasure you have given us , by asking us to share in this , your annual occasion . |
| 3 | God has done us such good in this sorrow . |
| 4 | The term ‘ climb ’ has done us proud for years . |
| 5 | ‘ He done us proud , the old gentleman . |
| 6 | Then he called for Alvar Fañez and said unto him , Cousin , the poor have no part in the wrong which the King hath done us ; see now that no wrong be done unto them along our road : and he called for his horse . |
| 7 | In an elderly upper-crust voice , I complained about ‘ This business of trying to jam the other chaps ' telephones — y'know , it has n't done us any favours at all , frankly . |
| 8 | Steve Pyle has not only done us all a favour ; he has done you one , Mr Laing . |
| 9 | But perhaps the royal sisters-in-law have done us all a favour by chipping away at these hypocritical accolades . |
| 10 | McGrath said : ‘ It could have done us a lot of good to have been beaten so heavily at Coventry . |
| 11 | They have n't done us many lately . ’ |
| 12 | But he 's done us proud and you could say he 's an improving nine-year-old and there are n't many of those about . |
| 13 | ‘ He 's done us proud , as well , ’ says Granville . |
| 14 | In 1348 the king restored the Earl of Lancaster 's title to the Honour and castle of Pontefract , which he had hitherto held on lease from the queen , ‘ having regard to the good service and great honour which our … cousin has done us in Gascony ’ . |
| 15 | The University and Catering had done us proud . |
| 16 | She has done us many a kindness and fed us every morning . " |
| 17 | We 've spent years examining the Bridge systems , but for all the good it 's done us we might have been blowing bubbles . |
| 18 | He would have done us such credit . |
| 19 | Political spite has done us enormous damage , but it 's not the whole story . |
| 20 | Once again , Mr has done us proud . |
| 21 | They had all been inhibited from plain speaking by the lavish hospitality , the fresh scampi with avocado had been too ‘ mucked about ’ for her taste , while that dreadful black man had insisted on telling her all about his times in and out of the ring with ‘ Big Frank ’ ( ‘ a lovely suit of clothes ’ ) , interrupting himself only to raise his glass of pink wine to Sir Ralph who had , in his opinion , ‘ done us proud ’ . |
| 22 | We had seen a lot of people cry in our time , but this was the first time that Quigley had done us the honour . |
| 23 | lets hope so — but Sunderland has done us before … |
| 24 | nothing stops that race but the weather has put paid today to Gloucestershire 's big game … their match against Australia was washed out and abandoned in a draw … but the water has done us some good turns |
| 25 | ‘ Wales beating England has done us no favours . |
| 26 | We had everything beaten expect Jodami , who has done us for foot . ’ |
| 27 | The fright we 've given ourselves in recent months will have done us some good if it helps us adjust society back in the direction of common purposes and co-operative disciplines . |
| 28 | I am starting to think Lord Justice Taylor , with his ground safety proposals , has done us and other non-League clubs one very big favour . |
| 29 | it 's done , done us well enough , but I do prefer a Bernie . |
| 30 | He done us proud . |