Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Back in the main town , we explored twisting alleys which eventually led us to the old Frankish quarter . |
| 2 | ‘ If you would n't mind coming along to light us on the way back ? |
| 3 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 4 | Which which Mrs Thatcher rightly committed us to and rightly whipped us through the house And and it and it |
| 5 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 6 | Tomorrow , of course , Kathleen Long joins us for the Phone the Doc slot . |
| 7 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 8 | Much eludes us about the government of the Merovingian civitates , but some aspects of their role within the administration of the kingdom are reasonably clear . |
| 9 | ‘ They insisted that they held the meeting at a place of their choosing and only told us at the last minute . |
| 10 | So how we 're going to actually interpret that and er act on that here in Manchester and we set out our against er er to achieve that on the simple basis of quality and you 've heard enough about quality over the last two years to not be too surprised that that 's what we 've said was going to give us the cutting edge and perhaps put us in the leading position here in Manchester . |
| 11 | Erm Lisa is that I 'm not quite sure , from the York University student rooms , is in to help us with the big box pile up . |
| 12 | Our clothes , living space and total environment all separated us from the outer world . |
| 13 | I commiserate with my hon. Friend on his misfortune this evening , in finding himself inadvertently supporting us in the Lobby . |
| 14 | Relating an interlude of bad weather in 1873 , Bonington suddenly whisks us to the ( almost ) contemporary Chamonix campsite : ‘ Sitting out bad weather is another familiar experience . |
| 15 | They constantly warned us of the danger of the roads , about the thieves and vagabonds who dressed in green or brown buckram and played Robin Hood in the dark forests or wastelands we passed through . |
| 16 | The book had been written in haste , he charmingly tells us in the Preface , so that the first part was already at the printers before the second part was written . |
| 17 | The monitoring and evaluation process should not only inform us about the quality of what is being offered in schools , it should actually promote a raising of standards . |
| 18 | The meaning is embodied in the rules of the game : to understand trumping and revoking one needs to ask , ‘ How do you use a trump-card , what do you do with it ? ’ psychological terms — like ‘ the trumping-feeling ’ and ‘ the revoking-feeling ’ — merely distract us from the thing that really matters . |
| 19 | Over a cognac he gloomily informs us of the Japanese surrender . |
| 20 | This not only reminds us of the existence of a non-state section of education ( which as we write in mid-1987 seems set only to increase in size ) , but also in drawing attention to the relations between the state and non-state sectors , points out features of the conditions under which the former operates that are frequently taken for granted . |
| 21 | Camping holidays were always in the rain , but my parents would constantly remind us throughout the fortnight that the sun was ‘ trying to come out ’ . |
| 22 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 23 | We learned a great deal from those matches and this can only help us in the future , ’ he said . |
| 24 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 25 | Although not profitable in the first year of acquisition , BMK with its complementary customer base and very different range of production equipment , will greatly strengthen us in the longer term . |
| 26 | Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker , impress us with the illusion of design and planning . |
| 27 | An absolute conception of poverty thus alerts us to the fact that health — for some or all of the family — will be bartered in the struggle to meet basic needs . |
| 28 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 29 | The strong views expressed on both sides of the House — which in itself is unusual , divided as it is in its political structure — on the way that the right hon. Gentleman has carried out his job should send a clear message to the IRA : that it will not bomb its way to the conference table ; it will not affect us now ; it will not affect us during the general election ; and it will not affect us after the general election . |
| 30 | Mark finally led us to the summit of Mont Blonc du Tacul just as darkness fell . |