Example sentences of "[adv] they [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This policeman was having to give evidence and he 'd come to talk , oh I see you 've had the baby , cos he was talking to me it had happened I said , oh what did you have blah blah blah , blah blah blah , but the little devil went in the witness box , he denied about not being there on duty about putting his mac on , ooh and he 'd never clapped eyes on barrister or a solicitor and they said he 'll meet you before the case , so we had to go extra early meet this barrister and he never came and so they took us in this little room in all his wig and his gown , we got , oh what happened ? |
| 2 | Finally they placed us in front of the studio audience to begin the discussion , and I quickly inquired from Judith Chalmers — working by now on some reserve energy tank : |
| 3 | Rather they alert us to just how powerful female potency really is in our collective psyches , despite , and even because of , its long repression . |
| 4 | How well they remind us of the purpose for which the ark has been fetched ! |
| 5 | yeah , well they called us in the canteen |
| 6 | Not our problem , says Katia , and says , very reasonably , that an audience applauds for different reasons — ‘ maybe they are crazy about Mozart , or two piano music , or maybe they saw us on TV . |
| 7 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 8 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 9 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 10 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 11 | Then they led us into a building and kept us there , all together . ‘ |
| 12 | Then they asked us for lunch . |
| 13 | Then they called us to our marks . |
| 14 | Then they accompanied us to an eating house . |
| 15 | Then they escorted us to our rooms , where we gratefully made up for lost sleep . |
| 16 | It 's an indictment on our society that The Porch is regarded as their home , and we 're only open for five hours a day , and yet they regard us as their family , and what we the servers are for them is the parents that they lack . |
| 17 | it 's all going ahead they want us in as soon as possible that 's how we got such a good |