Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] us [art] [adj] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | I hung a right which cost us a fair amount of starboard body work and a couple of hub caps . |
| 2 | We descended down as the flak , which caused us no major problems , opened up . |
| 3 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 4 | Naturally , nobody gave us a second look and I had the traffic lights co-ordinated by computer so that we stopped near you just as Sergeant Plod , with perfect timing , gave you an excuse to mace him . |
| 5 | Actually , nobody gave us a second look as they must have presumed I was trying to get inside her knickers . |
| 6 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 7 | At the German border we were helped by a German trucker who got us the required stamps . |
| 8 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 9 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 10 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 11 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 12 | What I would like to do now is to reintroduce Phill who addressed us a little bit earlier this morning who 's going to tell us a little bit more about enterprise client server solutions . |
| 13 | We contacted Dr. Ford , who sent us the following reply : |
| 14 | She had other daughters in the town but she always wanted me and if ever she wanted anything to do with her papers and books and financial things , she used to ask my husband to go in , you see the day after we got there she brought us a huge dish like that with mushrooms which er grew f er well there are houses built there now but er at that time they had a big meadow there sort of a copse er in it with a bunch of trees and you see and all these mushrooms grew , you see , and they were , you know , they 're nice you see . |
| 15 | At the time , you sent us a delightful card , which I still have , offering good wishes and expressing the hope we might one day meet . |
| 16 | The people who brought us the old-school Arkwright football shirts are now bringing us Subbuteo merchandise complete with the classic Subbuteo falcon logo . |
| 17 | Made by the Japanese firm of Saga ( the same people who brought us the Lowden-esque Trameleuc acoustics , plus reissues of Maccaferri gypsy jazz guitars and Regal wooden-bodied resophonics ) these new acoustics sell under the name of O.C. Smith and promise an interesting combination of European but strongly American-influenced design , together with Japanese efficiency and affordability . |
| 18 | For the first meeting of our 1990-91 winter programme our invited speaker was Mr Michael Parker of ‘ Centro ’ , the West Midlands Transport Executive , who gave us a fascinating insight into the planning , routes and probable operation of the intended West Midlands light rail system . |
| 19 | , writes : LIKE the duck that warned of air raids in Germany , we had a Manchester terrier who gave us a similar warning . |
| 20 | Phrasal verbs come in for more attention with Phrasal Verbs Organiser from LTP ( by the man who gave us the First Certificate Organiser ) , while HarperCollins is publishing a Phrasal Verbs Workbook to accompany its dictionary . |
| 21 | Hailed as the troubled comic genius who gave us the manic hotel-keeper Basil Fawlty and the Ministry of Silly Walks , he 's also the kingpin of the enduring Pythons and a multi-millionaire businessman . |
| 22 | You did us a great service in warning him of the threat to his life , Isabel . |
| 23 | ‘ She gave us a big jug of water and big brushes and put on blues and greens and let them run and I was away from then . |
| 24 | ‘ She gave us a big jug of water and big brushes and put on blues and greens and let them run and I was away from then . |
| 25 | Like all the members of staff , Miss Smith was dedicated to her work and she gave us a fine start in life . |
| 26 | Here she gave us a happy home for the next twenty years . |
| 27 | We listened to the hon. Member for Derby , South when she gave us the present status of Beckett 's laws — a pledge to increase pensions and child benefit , to which the new manufacturing package has been added . |
| 28 | I 'm not changing my tune , Councillor Wyle knows that in the past I have actually offered to go with them when they 've made erm , visits to the minister , and when he said , we we we tried , but we never got anywhere , and on various issues I 've said , well perhaps if we got us an all party delegation , at least we could have done no worse . |
| 29 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 30 | They told us a few months ago . |