Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 2 | Who 'd showed us in the end |
| 3 | He was an old man like the guard who had stopped us in the road the night before . |
| 4 | At the end of the formal presentation not all had joined us for the stomach churners , preferring to get to the office and start selling those new protection contracts . |
| 5 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 6 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 7 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 8 | This was a sort of celebration meal , as word had reached us of the successful British attack on Caen . |
| 9 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 10 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 11 | that the choice lay between power , which had served us since the days of Clive , and influence which , if we could use it aright in the changed conditions of the twentieth century , would serve us better . |
| 12 | There was a story that she had once been married to a hollow cheeked Indian tour guide called Willy Wither who had taken us up the river and touchingly offered me the use of his very expensive camera ( ‘ A holiday without a camera is a terrible thing . ’ ) , |
| 13 | ‘ I was in Boston when the word came through that Derrygonnelly had beaten us in the championship . |
| 14 | I could view the progress of the race from where I was standing , just before the home straight , and I could see that Elliott and Daley had kept us in the hunt . |
| 15 | Before we knew what was happening a guard had ushered us outside the gate and into the milling crowd in the street . |