Example sentences of "[verb] [vb pp] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 31 | In a word , the past year , especially , has confronted us with the problem of ‘ our crises ’ , which are the result of the initial stages of a transition economy in a country with a backward , petty-bourgeois population and surrounded by hostile forces . |
| 32 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 33 | Who 'd showed us in the end |
| 34 | Even then our marker point will have preserved for us a stability in stratigraphical nomenclature and will have saved us from the utterly wasteful vacillations in opinion and fashion that trouble us today . |
| 35 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 36 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 37 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 38 | You 'd have had us over the edge in a minute ! ’ |
| 39 | Having introduced us to the widely ranging Cichlasoma family , and given ideas of how to keep them , our three cichlid experts , JEFF CHALLANDS , MARTIN CHANDLER AND PHIL ROBINSON move on to the nitty-gritty of tanks and equipment . |
| 40 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 41 | The path forked when it reached an old log cabin ; left would have taken us to the top of Mount Eddy , right took us on the Pacific Crest Trail stretching from Canada down to Mexico . |
| 42 | Having a baby would have taken us off the front pages , making us safe and dull again . |
| 43 | Graham Taylor , having taken us to the brink of a shock World Cup exit after miserable displays against Poland and Norway , contemplates on the latest national disaster . |
| 44 | Our discussions of last week seem to have lead us to the Railway Tavern at 12–12:30 . |
| 45 | ‘ The guides claimed to have taken us to the edge of the Sahara but when I looked on a map it was the Atlas mountains , the bastards . ’ |
| 46 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 47 | At the end of the formal presentation not all had joined us for the stomach churners , preferring to get to the office and start selling those new protection contracts . |
| 48 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 49 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 50 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 51 | ‘ You 've sold us down the river , ’ became a familiar shout from across a crowded bar . |
| 52 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 53 | ( ‘ They 've kicked us in the teeth so often ’ , ‘ They tried to write us off like they did Kenya ; but we would n't stand for it . ’ ) |
| 54 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 55 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 56 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 57 | that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better . |
| 58 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 59 | ‘ I was in Boston when the word came through that Derrygonnelly had beaten us in the championship . |
| 60 | I could view the progress of the race from where I was standing , just before the home straight , and I could see that Elliott and Daley had kept us in the hunt . |