Example sentences of "[vb past] [adv] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 2 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 3 | We had a couple of bottles of champagne to greet the travellers , and Gabby and her husband came in to help us with them and we all toasted Nigel 's ‘ recovery ’ . |
| 4 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 5 | The driver of the first car that came by asked us for directions : we laughed and said we were flying , not driving ! |
| 6 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 7 | They kindly squashed up to let us into the shelter , whereupon all conversation ceased . |
| 8 | ‘ They worked hard to get us into Europe and now there 's no perk for them . |
| 9 | He added : ‘ I think it is marvellous he kept on supporting us from inside prison . ’ |
| 10 | Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling . |
| 11 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 12 | There were twenty of us , other chaps in much the same boat as me , Nancy our tutor was cheerful , down to earth and did not expect us to be cordon bleu cooks . |
| 13 | Research can be carried out at all sorts of levels ; we could restrict ourselves simply to reading everything we can find and produce a piece of work which was wholly based on documentary sources and which did not involve us in attending any baptisms or asking anyone involved any questions . |
| 14 | William Pitt , First Earl of Chatham , should have had pall-bearers equal in rank to himself , but this was not to be and in a letter written in 1778 following the funeral in Westminster Abbey , the nineteen-year-old Pitt the Younger said to his mother , ‘ The Court did not honour us with their countenance , nor did they suffer the procession to be as magnificent as it ought ; but it had , notwithstanding everything essential to the great object , the attendance being most remarkable . |
| 15 | ‘ As a matter of policy , NatWest chose to shed market share in property lending in the late-1980s , but that did not protect us from bad debts . |
| 16 | It would appear that God did not intend us to be fat . |
| 17 | The hon. Gentleman has changed his wording — at last , he did not accuse us of privatising HMI . |
| 18 | For example , we would be surprised if the police did not wear a particular uniform or if a traffic warden did not book us for parking on a yellow line . |
| 19 | Or perhaps I should say she did not trust us with everything she knew . |
| 20 | office did not warn us of gales , most of them severe , and a large number of storm force tens . |
| 21 | Although at the time some of these vehicles seemed , and have since proved , to be new forms of dinosaur , that did not exempt us from our obligation as educators to prepare our students for the world of work some ten , twenty , thirty years ahead when they would be the key executives in the publishing industry . |
| 22 | Only see one way in which we are like God is in having moral and spiritual capacities no other creature has moral and spiritual capacities , they do not of the potential to worship , they do not of a code er , er , of moral laws , they 're not governed by that , it 's a case of , of the , might makes right , it 's a case of the strongest the one that survives and the weakest goes to the wall you 've only got to look er at a litter of pups and the last one is the one that 's pushed to the back every time is n't it , there 's no moral law there , those pups and the , and the bitch does n't er work out , that because that one is weaker it should be getting more , more nourishment , it should be cared for better , it does n't work like that in any thing else , but God has placed within humanity a moral responsibility and his place within as a spiritual capacity , were more than just animals , were created in his image , so God created us , capable of knowing him and growing to be like him and in his original creation they 're in need of , the , the , the highlight of it was when he came down and communicated and talked with Adam and Eve there in the garden and shared his heart with them and there was this perfect commune between God the creator and man his creation , he never did it to any animal , he did n't go and talk to the trees and the plants perfect though they were , he never looked on any of the other creatures that he had made , wonderful though they may be , beautiful in their colouring , and go and talk with them , but he talks with Adam and he shares his heart with him his purpose is that Adam should communicate with him and walk with him and has fellowship with him , growing to be like him , but you see even though God created us like that , he did n't create us as puppets , it was n't God up in heaven pulling the strings and Adam did that and Eve did this and that was how it were , God is not a puppeteer and he made as capable of choosing good and evil , he gave us moral choices , because he made us his moral beings and so we could choose to do this and not to do that , we could choose to , to do this and to leave the other undone . |
| 23 | ‘ Chrissie did n't tell us about that , ’ said Hatch quietly . |
| 24 | ‘ Well I think it 's disgusting that ‘ that Maureen Lipman ’ did n't tell us about it . ’ |
| 25 | Did n't tell us about that one did you ? |
| 26 | No no she did n't tell us about the loft . |
| 27 | She did n't tell us till today . |
| 28 | It might suggest that all bets were off on the release stakes or , ever hopeful , it might be that they were planning on letting us go and did n't want us to be able to give any hint , however vague , as to the whereabouts of the Yanks . |
| 29 | But the writers of the books of the Bible did n't want us to be put off and as we look closer , it 's easy to see the human touches that the Bible includes all along the way . |
| 30 | same as all these black countries did n't want us in there did they ? |