Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We walked the long , covered-in wooden bridge which led us over the Hundred Foot River to the members ' observatory . |
| 2 | Somebody told us in the market , but we never get to the market , do we ? |
| 3 | It is a crisis of everything which served us in the past but which is no longer tenable today . |
| 4 | Our patrol area during that time was mainly on the south coast and the west country , with a longer patrol northward on the west coast which took us into the Bristol Channel , then to the Isle of Man , Workington and Northern Ireland . |
| 5 | This surely is the basic English policy of helping and solidarity , which took us through the last war and into the first Labour Government and the welfare state . |
| 6 | And in order to assess the wind speed , we had to climb up a perpendicular outside iron staircase , which took us onto the flat roof of Flying Control . |
| 7 | However , he soon found a car which took us up the hill to Maymyo , and Madriya and his wife and daughter came with us . |
| 8 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 11 | Behrend who entertained us in the Officers ' Mess for an evening meal and breakfast . |
| 12 | But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged . |
| 13 | ( There ) ‘ we were met by the Viscount Walsh ( Chamberlain of the Emperor ) who led us to the apartment of the Baroness de Pierres ( ex Miss Thorne of New York ) who is now a lady-in-waiting to the Empress ’ . |
| 14 | You caught us on the hop there , ol' buddy . |
| 15 | The cabbie , who drove us from the airport to our hotel , had spent some time in Oxford and London . |
| 16 | We are grateful to the concerned Dogs Today reader who informed us of the lobbying activities of this organisation . |
| 17 | ‘ Well , we do open to the public now , as you know , but oh ! the bills , and the staff want paying , ’ she said as she showed us to the door . |
| 18 | The manager was okay — all she wanted was to get the place calmed down — and she showed us out the back way . ’ |
| 19 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 20 | We were all absolutely fagged out , and promptly dropped off to sleep at 4 a.m. , only to be caught later by some children who betrayed us to the patrols . |
| 21 | She alerted us to the possibility that ‘ using collaborative methods of working ’ could also mean ‘ helping children to create collaborative activities for themselves ’ . |
| 22 | The referee then went off the field to consult an officer at the touchline who waved us off the pitch . |
| 23 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 24 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 25 | Our heartiest congratulates go to Jean Parmiter and her 55+ Display Team , who represented us at the Age Concern Festival Movement at the Royal Albert Hall in November last year . |
| 26 | This was " Bugisville " all right , and our arrival was accompanied by the usual howling horde of kids and adults who jostled us up the steps to the house of the Bupati , the government-appointed chief , where we had arrived to pay our respects . |
| 27 | We went with our newly found friend who took us through the side door to a shed at the back of his premises and showed us what could only be described as treasure — five large horse collars of black leather . |
| 28 | " Or were you expecting this when you took us into the wood ? " |
| 29 | No , if you took us in your car , you could come for , if you took us in the Metro today , oh |
| 30 | From the highly personalised work of Alexis Hunter and Maggie Jennings to the business of print making by Sylvie Turner and an introduction to women and print making by Pat Gilmour ( who introduced us to the innovative work of June Wayne ) . |