Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] us in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The snows of Mount Hermon streaming northwards , the blue vales of Galilee , the brown waters of the Litani encircled us in that little cyclone , We could be seen , for above the sound of the gale we heard the clatter of bullets tossed by the wind against the ramparts . |
| 2 | But God wanted us in that society and we now have a choice . |
| 3 | Erm you know any anyone we met and and spoke to I think some people held us in some kind of suspicion , but a lot of people were glad er to have the er you know have the company and erm that were were available to them . |
| 4 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 5 | It was after Frank Hoddinott joined us in 1923 that Palace fans ( all too briefly ) saw Whitworth at his best . |
| 6 | To add to this confusion the steep-angled grass above is riddled with puffin burrows ; later in our stay we found that attempts to move tripods closer to the edge put us in real danger of disappearing downwards , compete with the odd half-acre of apparently stable cliff top . |
| 7 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 8 | I was beginning to think that we 'd missed the boat , even though we knew in our heart of hearts that the Lord wanted us in some form of full-time capacity . |
| 9 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 10 | The importance of damping down retaliation is dramatized by the following memoir by a British ( as if the first sentence left us in any doubt ) officer : |
| 11 | And in this sense it must be said that the Resistance experience , by making us believe that politics is a relationship between man and man or between consciousnesses , fostered our illusions of 1939 and masked the truth of the incredible power of history which the Occupation taught us in another connection . |
| 12 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |