Example sentences of "[noun sg] [was/were] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 2 | Bryan 's aim was to wean us off complete reliance on precise diagnostic features , and to get us to concentrate on the ‘ Personality ’ of each species ; on the way it holds itself , feeds , moves , calls ; its general behaviour and first glance appearance — ‘ jizz ’ for short . |
| 3 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 4 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 5 | Well that policem that police woman was telling us about Southall Road di |
| 6 | Our apparel was given us as a sign distinctive to discern betwixt sex and sex , and therefore for one to wear the apparel of another sex , is to participate with the same , and to adulterate the verity of his own kind . |
| 7 | Our journey was to take us from one end of the village to the Bar-Tabac at the other end , a trip of some 200 metres down the straight street that led to the plump , vine-studded hills in the distance . |
| 8 | Well union , you know the union in the coal mines and all different well er everywhere in the North Wales here to , postmen , well every union was helping us with them . |
| 9 | I asked the doctor about Dara Shukoh and Aurangzeb , and soon the doctor was telling us about the civil war and the accounts given of it by Bernier and Manucci . |
| 10 | Our tutor was to introduce us to ‘ fieldwork ’ . |
| 11 | A senior man in the Ministry of Defence was telling us of the ‘ battle for hearts and minds ’ which his department is conducting among the people of the border villages . |
| 12 | ‘ Our vicar was tellin' us about the people who are leadin' the uprisin' in Russia . |
| 13 | These clothes were got from a pawnshop in Kendal ; the rouge came from an acquaintance of Mrs Charlotte Deans , the actress ; the chaise was loaned us by a young friend of mine whose father owns the chief coaching firm in the town . |