Example sentences of "[verb] [v-ing] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | While he was away she never stopped reminding us at the top of her voice that she was n't a five by two . |
| 2 | Comrades , it 's time that this union , along with other trade unions , made it absolutely clear to the Labour leadership , we are the Labour Party , it is us that gives resources , our time , our money , everything to try and get them elected and it 's time they stopped kicking us in the teeth at times such as this . |
| 3 | I may be wrong , but I suspect that deep down , Monica , who is remarkably mature in many ways for her age , has enjoyed dangling us on a string , not only over the Wimbledon issue but also over her last minute non appearance at the Federation Cup and all the mutterings of official disapproval which that caused . |
| 4 | It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring , that we start shouting , ‘ Bring us a basin ! |
| 5 | If the Government keeps telling us in every statement they make that we 're an integral part of the . |
| 6 | As part of the improved conditions Bilal 's partner started taking us through the kitchen once or twice a week to sit with them and get a bit of sun . |
| 7 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 8 | He recalled an unsatisfactory meeting with President Carter , ‘ We had hardly got seated and Carter started lecturing us about the problems he had with one of the sections of the bill . |
| 9 | This may also mean protecting us from the seamier side of Chinese life . |
| 10 | and then he 's , he 's fucking started marching us around the parade square and and we ca n't see a fucking thing inside there , and he said er come out a minute , so I 've blinking gone out and I 've noticed were about fifty yards from the beach |
| 11 | He used to enjoy telling us of the early trials of the Young husband expedition of 1908 which trekked more than halfway across the lonely reaches of Persia and Afghanistan , and over the Himalaya range to Tibet . |
| 12 | Agnes asked herself , and she thought : When we thrust out into the world just as we are , we first have to identify with that particular throw of the dice , with that accident organized by the divine computer : to get over our surprise that precisely this ( what we see facing us in the mirror ) is our self . |
| 13 | They stood watching us at the door . |