Example sentences of "[noun] [vb past] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Data could pop up in boxes around the screen , and in due course graphics , mice and icons led us into the wimps era ( window , icon , menu , pointer ) . |
| 2 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 3 | Spice drew us round the world , showed us it was round , and led us to confront ourselves again . |
| 4 | Mr Trelawney met us at the cave . |
| 5 | A very light northerly wind wafted us round the moored yacht on which we had marooned the photographer . |
| 6 | Spencer told us of the people who had been to the Chapel to see what he was doing — and told us that several generals had been there . |
| 7 | We had dinner with Jochen and Ingrid and Jochen showed us over the school . |
| 8 | Various speakers congratulated us on the marvellous work we had done over the past few months . |
| 9 | Spurs coach Doug Livermore said : ‘ Andy 's young but in every pre-season game , he was so good , his performances hit us in the eye . ’ |
| 10 | After lunch two mini-buses took us to the Ulster Folk Museum at Cultra and the Dublin deaf were overcome by the beauty of our countryside . |
| 11 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 12 | Your very welcome Letters of the 20th of Aug. and 14th of Septr. reached us on the 23rd and 25th of Jan : they were a joyful relief to us all and were the most acceptable to me since for the first time you acknowledge I have been tried and not found wanting : believe me it will always be my highest gratification to merit the good opinions of every one but of none more than yourself : and the more confidence you repose in me the more strenuous will be my efforts to prove myself worthy of it . |
| 13 | Our nervous Iraqi guards kept us inside the small bungalow that was ‘ home ’ for the 12 of us . |
| 14 | Barney took us to the airport , and when we arrived next day in Hong Kong , it was warm and sunny . |
| 15 | The car took us to the Monument , and then we saw the Worm . ’ |
| 16 | Fardine took us to the edge of his terrace , where his own pigeons were kept in a large coop . |
| 17 | Richard Branson saved us over the boredom . |
| 18 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 19 | Headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with her own highly appropriate joke . |
| 20 | But dear oh dear , headmistress Shirley Cunningham greeted us at the school gates with the world 's oldest joke . |
| 21 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 22 | I followed them onto a narrow , crumbling ledge above the ravine where the wind hurled us against the wall . |
| 23 | Is it not outrageous that so much British taxpayers ' money should have been spent trying to suppress a book which in part told us about the treacherous activities of the security services in trying to undermine the democratically elected Government of Harold Wilson ? |
| 24 | The firm 's management approached us in the summer of 1980 , asking if we could find out ‘ what had happened ’ to their former employees , and agreed to provide the names and addresses of those who had lost their jobs . |
| 25 | When the blessed saint visited us in the church there , as before in vision , she came with showers of may-blossom . |
| 26 | The Club Captain , John Gunne and Lady Captain , Josie McPhillips joined us for the Outing and for the evening celebrations . |
| 27 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 28 | Doone followed us into the kitchen , removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit . |
| 29 | The ride home took us through the Red Light district ( not that I noticed ) . |
| 30 | This interchange brought us to the foot of the bad step beneath Crib Goch summit . |