Example sentences of "[noun] [noun prp] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.

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1 So in the third and last soliloquy Richard reminds us of his concealed plot , his ‘ deep intent ’ to kill Clarence — deep to the rest of the world , visible to us and tells us of his further plan to marry Lady Anne ( ‘ What though I kill 'd her husband and her father ? ’ ) .
2 A particularly welcome aspect of the present disc is that Sarah Cunningham presents us with a survey spanning the entire period of the repertoire — as such it will perhaps be more welcome to the non-specialist than the Savall discs .
3 Richard Branson saved us over the boredom .
4 At 11.58 David Dimbleby assured us on BBC : ‘ A total of four results have been declared so far . ’
5 On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh .
6 She said desperately , ‘ Miss Evans sent us for the goose .
7 Jean Cocteau , Peggy Guggenheim tells us in her autobiography Confessions of an Art Addict , received her for the first time comfortably horizontal between the sheets , smoking opium .
8 Frank Kelly thanked us for our efforts and I somehow was volunteered again to make the reply .
9 Misha Glenny takes us through the historical background to the war , before giving us a more detailed account of the political manoeuvring and stirring from August 1990 to May 1992 .
10 Thus an account of housing development in North Shields provides us with a background to inter-war and immediate post-war developments in both owner-occupied and council housing , whereas Cramlington 's owner-occupied estates can be thought of as suburbanization produced by developer builders .
11 It 's the first thing we see ; it is , if you like , the moment at which Dr Starkie introduces us to Flaubert .
12 May God make us like Elisha — men and women of God , filled with His peace and purity , in touch with Him in prayer , and allowing His power to work in His world .
13 May God help us to be thoroughly like that , this week and for ever ;
14 May God forgive us for the age in which we live .
15 It was after Frank Hoddinott joined us in 1923 that Palace fans ( all too briefly ) saw Whitworth at his best .
16 Then , as you say , Dr McDonald visited us in Cambridge , liked what we were doing and announced his intention of setting up an institute here in Cambridge for research into archaeology .
17 The image is invasive , yet we are compelled to look , for the privilege gaze Mann offers us in hard to deny .
18 It was funny to hear Sir Bernard Ingham telling us on that delayed programme about the recession , which Samir Shah so bravely defended , that Mrs Thatcher was too nice to sack people ( bless you , Bernard , she got through more company than Sweeney Todd ) .
19 He jumped down and grabbed one , I ran after him , trod on the screws , fell , hurting my gouty foot and breaking the blue vase Auntie Dolly gave us for christmas .
20 While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions .
21 For Mr Till presents us with an intellectual Mozart , linking him with Rousseau and Voltaire , Goethe and Schiller .
22 Mr Trelawney met us at the cave .
23 The Club Captain , John Gunne and Lady Captain , Josie McPhillips joined us for the Outing and for the evening celebrations .
24 Mr. Lester presented us with what he termed a menu of choices in case we should be against his submission that the right to sue in malicious falsehood was a sufficient protection for the reputation of a corporate public authority .
25 We can now observe twentieth century features of Hebridean kitchen gardens and can recognise a profusion of plants which occur , then sense the continuity of custom as Martin Martin informs us of the uses he observed almost three centuries ago .
26 Mr Moore bounces us up the stairs , throwing open the door of a small room painted buttermilk yellow in the converted stable .
27 ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic .
28 Olivia Durdin-Robertson meets us at the porch , under the protective wing of Horus .
29 We then sang The National Anthem and Mr. Russ addressed us on the subject of patriotism .
30 Mr. Collins refers us to several well known authorities in support of his propositions .
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