Example sentences of "[noun pl] they [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | " It 's exactly like those fairy-tale books they terrified us with . |
| 2 | Figures they gave us from surveys carried out for the Inter-Bank Research Organisation by the British Market Research Bureau confirmed this , but showed that people in social classes A , B and C1 are still twice as likely to have a bank account as people in social classes D and E , and that the higher someone 's income the greater is the likelihood of their having a bank account . |
| 3 | But in their minds they turned us into pixies . |
| 4 | When we tackled Great Escapes they warned us about ‘ making damaging remarks or besmirching the company in any way ’ . |
| 5 | There 's a limit to what can be done on those little caravan stoves they provide us with . ’ |