Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the blessed saint visited us in the church there , as before in vision , she came with showers of may-blossom . |
| 3 | Was n't this demonstrated when the scum did us in the semi 's a couple of years ago ? |
| 4 | ‘ The old girl left us in the dark , ’ said Iris with a jerk of her head towards the empty desk . |
| 5 | Skip shows us in the book how his aspirations for the boat decrease and how newcomers to the boat had to get used to the crew 's relaxed attitude . |
| 6 | A bomb hit us in the night , d' ya not know that ? |
| 7 | Ayer tells us in the next paragraph : |
| 8 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 9 | And I did n't know about the drugs until the Customs launch stopped us in the bay . |
| 10 | When the doors of the huge dining room at the zoo were thrown open we were first in , but a sergeant cook met us in the entrance with : " I want three volunteers for dishwashing — you , you and you , " and marched us away . |
| 11 | Here were people through no fault of their own , government policy , mismanagement and lo and behold , our union kick us in the bloody face because you 're unemployed . |
| 12 | Working on three floors at once we decided to we needed to continue work on the seventh floor before moving up to the eighth and so on to the ninth by the information given us in the er we calculated that the men that were to get onto the programme by the end of the week calculated the production rate for various gangs to see how fast so that 's how it was looking . |
| 13 | Just as we have adopted an intuitive approach to the concept of set so we shall allow our intuition to guide us in the matter of whether or not an explanation is logically acceptable : to formalise the notion of acceptability would take us too far afield , into symbolic logic . |
| 14 | That when someone — one man like Dr. Briant — starts to meddle with the functions of the power that is God , disaster stares us in the face . |
| 15 | Film of a speeded-up supermarket trip and Clockwork Orange puts us in the mood — a kind of delirium , happy when it pains — and William is our entertainment for the 60-minute duration . |
| 16 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 17 | By inviting people to follow Christ , we must also be in a position to include the invitation to join us in the pilgrimage . |