Example sentences of "[noun sg] [pers pn] [verb] us [det] " in BNC.
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1 | There were the bank recruitment stands ( 'If you give us all your money , we will let you queue in our bank when we 're open , and outside when we 're not ! ' ) and the MI5 stall ( 'Ever thought about Intelligence ? |
2 | We never asked for these technologies , and in the long run they give us fewer choices , not more . |
3 | One day they handed us some chipped potatoes , and there was enough oil on them to boil another portion . |
4 | I do n't mind dancing with girls when it 's for Jamie , though one time with one tall lassie he wanted us both to go outside so he could kiss her . |
5 | ‘ Quite a turn you give us all , Miss Theda ! ’ |
6 | After cooking supper that was more like a banquet than an ordinary meal he played us some medieval things on the organ and then some Elizabethan things on the clavichord . |
7 | In it he said of Mrs Thatcher , in the jocular way he addresses us all : ‘ I wish that cow would resign . ’ |
8 | And this time I want us both to make an effort to keep things friendly and pleasant . |
9 | The mate used to get erm on the dredger the tug and the two dumb hoppers , or the dumb hoppers they used to get four pound five shillings a week and erm and my father got five pound twelve and six and then it went so long we were given near the end of the dredger and er in the Harbourmaster 's wisdom he cut us all down five shillings a week , so we get three pound fifteen shillings . |