Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] us [num] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 In place of the few massy figures on that we see scores of small ones , ranged in six registers which give us seven stories from legend as well as a band of animals and florals , a battle of Pygmies and cranes on the foot , and other figures on the flat of the handles .
2 ‘ We will still be whipping the ball in from the wings as we have always done and we will continue with the style which brought us two trophies last season . ’
3 I I had er a return ticket from York to Gloucester and I was fortunate enough to get a lift back so I went into the station to ask if I could get a refund on the other half of the return and they said Sure you owe us four pounds .
4 And I mean Dee said to me this morning cos she heard us one morning
5 There are some slight variations in it , and it 's come from a different U S mill and , for example , there are three items at the end which were required and you offered us six millimetres , they 're now six point three five millimetres , which is quarter inch , that 's fine , erm .
6 The evangelist who tells us three times that Jesus contracted his perspective to concentrate on Jerusalem and that at Jerusalem the disciples had to await the coming of the Spirit that would equip them for mission , ends his second volume with a triple reminder that this good news , beginning from Jerusalem ( Luke 24:47 ) reaches Rome ( 19:21 ; 23:11 ; 27:24 ) .
7 You gave us five pages to get in one !
8 Just time to have a little chat about greyhounds with our greyhound man , Mick Weeble ; I think you gave us one winner last week did n't you Mick ?
9 Well she gave us twenty tapes and she said
10 For the sales model , for instance , we used to have three 3-megabyte files , each one giving us one type of output .
11 There 's some people send us money and say , I 've read in such and such a paper , erm somebody send it from Chesterfield the there their paper there , and they send us ten pounds or something and erm you know erm you never know how the fruits er .
12 For years to come because if they stay out they give us hundred percent help to carry on with it .
13 ‘ It did n't cause us any problems , and they gave us 1,200 lempiras ( $300 ) .
14 Also they had to film the invasion in the dark so they gave us two lamps .
15 They gave us six piasters and told us it was advance pay for work on a rubber plantation not far away .
16 One police source said last night : ‘ They gave us 30 minutes to find four separate devices in a huge area like that .
17 He built us nine platforms up in the canopy .
18 what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten
19 We went to , I think it cost us nine pounds from where we were stopping in Lido to er , to go to er where this Madam
20 BIRMINGHAM manager Terry Cooper yesterday blasted live television coverage and said : ‘ It cost us 5,000 fans . ’
21 what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten
22 We 've had people we had one chap an old mate of mine he give us fifty P well he 's on the dole there .
23 ten ninety five and , and we had two bottles last night so it costs us sixty pounds .
24 when Mikie was here and you were doing nights , and he called us one day and I said it 's not six o'clock yet he said you 're
25 I er I did n't buy them and he sent us three boxes and they came from the same warehouse .
26 Even though we spent that money we are projected to come in with balances of three million pounds in excess of the budget figure set by the Conservatives , and that is a six million pounds difference that 's come straight out of the twenty-four and I think it tells us two things .
27 It took us 18 months to save for a holiday .
28 It took us five minutes t'bring ‘ im round again .
29 Anyway it took us an hour and twenty minutes to get there , it took us forty minutes to get home .
30 I say , it took us three quarters of an hour to get there , three quarters of an hour to get there , just over the half an hour getting back .
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