Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When we saw a doctor , the doctor , having read our notes , asked about us as a person . |
| 2 | It means living with the perspective that we are in touch with the Lord Whose Son died so that we might enjoy the sort of life that He planned for us at the beginning of Genesis , and living with that perspective and privilege . |
| 3 | He moved towards us across the road . |
| 4 | George made his Football League debut for the Palace up at Bury — he equalised for us before the break , hit the bar soon after the interval and then set up Ben Bateman for the winner . |
| 5 | Tony 's successful partnership with Steve Kember was a key reason for our 1969 promotion to Division One , and for our subsequent continued presence there , but Tony also played for us in a variety of positions , from attacking winger on his debut , to left-back . |
| 6 | ‘ Despite what I thought to be a clear understanding on the part of their coaching staff , the Republic 's squad that played against us in the St Patrick 's Day match in Enniskillen , was too old and too experienced . |
| 7 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
| 8 | We also heard from someone who suffered with us in the hands of Southwark Offset , which tried to modernise us in the 1960s ( Letters , p 476 ) . |
| 9 | ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’ |
| 10 | Our younger daughter came with us for a year to Australia , where Michael had a visiting Professorship at Sydney University . |
| 11 | She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us . |
| 12 | Johnny Miller played with us for the last two days . |
| 13 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 14 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 15 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 16 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
| 17 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 18 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 19 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 20 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 21 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 22 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 23 | People came to us after the meeting , we met this lady and er she was really interested in our cause . |
| 24 | ‘ The Commission appointed to investigate the disaster came to us after an earlier attempt to prove the cause of the crash had failed , ’ explains senior project manager Steve Jackman . |
| 25 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 26 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 27 | David and Catherine shared with us during the evening service on December 29th , and explained how God had led David from being a car mechanic into the mission field in Brazil . |
| 28 | A few weeks later , whilst visiting St. John 's College , he shared with us about the mutual support within the group and the high priority given to it by its members . |
| 29 | Brother Eadred rode with us for a while , two or three miles from the abbey gates . |
| 30 | What began for us as the effort to capture a purely objective record of what we saw gradually dissolved into a quest , an odyssey of self-discovery which actually took place amongst the last of the lands of real living kings and queens , dragons and pirates , cannibals and headhunters , mystics and magicians . |