Example sentences of "[vb past] us [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Skipper worked nicely on the flat , so John built us a six inch cross pole to trot over . |
| 2 | PS : Blandly found us an excellent man to be captain , and Silver found a man called Arrow to be first officer . |
| 3 | And he is really responsible for bringing the three , because they deemed us a worthy cause when they saw er the work that we were doing , to perform free for us that evening in order to boost our funds . |
| 4 | I hung a right which cost us a fair amount of starboard body work and a couple of hub caps . |
| 5 | ‘ He looks very comfortable on the ball and scored us a fabulous goal which set up the win . |
| 6 | Mechanics pushed our aircraft into a hangar and machined us a new stud for our exhaust pipe . |
| 7 | We should also note that there are at least two different factors which may lead us to feel that some notion deserves emphasis ; one of course is contrast with another property that might have been expressed ; the second is salience of the notion within the particular situation envisaged ; this would presumably be true for : ( 16 ) Geraldine told us a long story about bee-keepers With these points in mind , we should now compare ( 15 ) with ( 17 ) and ask ourselves how much emphasis of either kind is present in ( 17 ) , provided that it is not " read in " in order to support the hypothesis : ( 17 ) the ideas discussed will be put to our colonel topics suitable could include divorce and bankruptcy buildings adjacent will be closed for three days Since there is no doubt that these sentences might be used in situations where the property of the adjective would not be contrastive , the only candidate which may have any plausibility is the " salient on this occasion " variety , though there does not seem to be very strong reason to believe that in all cases where these sentences could be used the adjective property will be salient ; we return to this later . |
| 8 | She told us a terrible story . |
| 9 | In the last few days alone there have been probing books about Mrs Thatcher and Winston Churchill which told us a great deal about the murky depths of the authors . |
| 10 | ‘ Victor told us a grim story on the plane . |
| 11 | We went out to breakfast with Mr Robinson , a pleasant but prosy old gentleman who told us a complicated tale of a bust of Wieland , retrieved by himself from unworthy oblivion , to the great delight of Goethe and other literary eminences . |
| 12 | Former technical direct Dr Nigel Mykura told us the immediate cause of his February 1991 resignation was a transfer of £350,000 from AMS1s bank account to another MacDonald company , which Mykura believed would make it impossible for AMS to continue its research . |
| 13 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 14 | The council told us the only way we could get a home was if we were living together . |
| 15 | So she told us the last time she was round she was going on a course for that sort of thing and she said now would you like to try it said fair enough . |
| 16 | That you have a map of an island ; that there 's crosses on the map to show where treasure is ; and that the island is — ’ Then he told us the exact place . |
| 17 | Because the market for meals is in competitive equilibrium we saw that the marginal cost curve for films also told us the marginal value of the meals being sacrificed to make the last film . |
| 18 | ‘ They told us the Ukrainian single would have gone to number one and we told them we did not want to be number one . |
| 19 | Otley threw us a large towel each and some dry clothes which we changed into like embarrassed children on the beach , then we had a mug of cocoa and a gingerbread man with currant eyes and chocolate buttons down his front . |
| 20 | Annabel , the daughter of a friend , paid us a quick visit from the other end of the country . |
| 21 | Mowbray said : ‘ A few years ago , Middlesbrough manager Bruce Rioch showed us a two-hour video of Bill Shankly talking about football and life in general . |
| 22 | They stamped round the sofa and did that tricky bit of acrobatics that Sid and Ethel showed us the other night . |
| 23 | Meanwhile , Flupper showed us the deadly thorn bushes that wrap round their prey like octopuses : and then whooshed us off at savage speeds — sometimes so fast he aquaplaned over the water . |
| 24 | He showed us the whole lagoon ( it is very big ) , slowing down to let us see the most interesting parts , then hurtled off amid boiling clouds of spray to give us a thrill . |
| 25 | Mr Rochester lifted the curtain , opened the secret door and showed us the little room . |
| 26 | showed us the lovely crystal glass which she had received the previous Wednesday at Wembley Conference Centre . |
| 27 | The officer who handed us the unofficial communique was risking his neck by taking a public stance against racism amongst his colleagues . |
| 28 | As we entered the bloated face nodded us a silent greeting . |
| 29 | I hate to admit it in fact but er , no the way they got things organized , got lecture tours , rallies and what have you together , you know I think er taught us an incredible amount . |
| 30 | In the Far East , the Indonesian government awarded us a major contract for the design of a fuel transfer and storage system for their research centre near Jakata . |