Example sentences of "[vb past] us [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 2 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 3 | I also knew the leaves of some trees , plants or grasses that provided us with instant cures for bee stings or bites from centipedes or scorpions . |
| 4 | The voyage of the good ship ‘ Ceilidh ’ in September provided us with many lessons in seamanship and Christian living . |
| 5 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 6 | This provided us with fantastic entertainment , and more seriously , a talking point about respecting peoples views — particularly within our church communities . |
| 7 | Then they also turned down our application to have Gay News in the library , which provided us with further ammunition and an unexpected new member . |
| 8 | Each of these companies provided us with detailed information of their purchases , which provided the basis for our estimate of ‘ indirect ’ employment described in Section 3 . |
| 9 | The decision we made was careful , it involved us in much work , and it was , in the event , I think , a seriously mistaken decision . |
| 10 | ‘ Around 80 Subject Assessors visited us during that fortnight , and every module was looked at . |
| 11 | Thank goodness we had tutors who helped us to some extent and who seemed quite accustomed to listening to tales of woe . |
| 12 | Alf 's grand-daughter , Ann Parker , still lives in Darlington and kindly helped us with these illustrations from her collection of footballing photographs , medals and newspaper cuttings . |
| 13 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 14 | Nature , that framed us of four elements , |
| 15 | My Dad ( who smoked ! ) caught us on that occasion and my punishment was being forced to smoke a whole cigarette ( which I did n't want ) in front of my friends who were called into the front room especially to witness the humiliation . |
| 16 | First the then the uniform , then you go and wait for the envelope to come through the door , and it did , reported us to Agricultural College for a month 's training . |
| 17 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 18 | My previous astonishment at the fact that people who came here like De Michelis [ the former foreign secretary ] , or like ex-Prime Minister Andreotti , never endowed us with any money is now diminished . |
| 19 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 20 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 21 | The more video recordings we collected , the more we talked to hearing professionals , the greater appeared the gulf between what hearing people told us about deaf signing and what deaf people were actually doing . |
| 22 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 23 | Tom told us of one horse whose molars on one side of the mouth were excessively short and on the other very long . |
| 24 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 25 | They told us within three days of your signing on . |
| 26 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 27 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 28 | He messed us about this weekend did n't he ? |
| 29 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 30 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |