Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He insisted we join him for dinner where he regaled us with tidbits of gossip from the court and city . |
| 2 | At all events we shall not go wrong in assuming that it is not without good reason that he tells us of so impressive a roll call of nationalities on the day of Pentecost ( 2:5–11 ) . |
| 3 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 4 | I thank the Minister for delivering every one of the pledges that he gave us in Committee . |
| 5 | He does n't see us as a part of a crowd , he does n't see us as a number on a computer , he does n't see us as numbers on a bank account , or in some other organizational er er er computer set up or whatever it is , he does n't just see us as that he sees us as individuals . |
| 6 | ‘ My father 's made it clear enough that he wants us to — to — ’ |
| 7 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 8 | We left and he followed us to the church door . |
| 9 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
| 10 | He forgives us ours sin and he cleanses us from all our sin . |
| 11 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 12 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 13 | Like Ruth , we were strangers , we were aliens , we were outside , we had nothing to say , well I 've got some right , we had no right at all but he came and he took us and he brought us in , and he has made us , who were nothing , something . |
| 14 | Fortunately , the landlord had n't seen our arrival and he served us with a smile and an offer of menus . |
| 15 | Innerd took over as Palace 's captain in 1906 after Ted Birnie had left us and he led us to several marvellous FA Cup triumphs , including the fabulous 1–0 Will at the home of his former club , and League champions , Newcastle United in January 1907 . |
| 16 | And he asked us to er at that time in May they were looking at what criteria they were going to judge products to award a fair-trade mark to them . |
| 17 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 18 | One of the Ness men was acting as guide and he took us to a rock bothy which the men use during their stay . |
| 19 | And he took us to their house |
| 20 | I love to watch him , because he 's intelligent and he has extraordinary drive and he takes us by surprise , but he is n't an intuitive actor , and we 're aware of how cleverly he 's playing the part . ‘ |
| 21 | We were a little disappointed — or at least I was — with David because he was n't in a dress and he was n't nearly as crazy as we thought he would be , but nevertheless , we liked his music a lot and he introduced us from the audience and Cherry Vanilla stood up and popped out a tit for the other 20 people , and David said that we were doing Pork . |
| 22 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 23 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 24 | And he leaves us with the teasing comment : ‘ Weizmann 's fermentation process with regard to oil works ; but that , for the moment , is all that can be stated . |
| 25 | ‘ My father ruled us with an iron fist and he hit us with an iron fist too , ’ Joe recalls . |
| 26 | Bishop O'Brien made us feel that we were a very important part of the world-wide Church and he encouraged us for our future as adult members of the Catholic Church . |
| 27 | We asked him where it came from in the bible , and he referred us to Exodus chapter 14 . |
| 28 | And he instructs us in the way of life ! |
| 29 | ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned . |
| 30 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |