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 | Have we been expelled from an arcadia of fun where nature provided us with innocent automata , lowing and braying machines for our amusement ? |
| 5 | This provided us with fantastic entertainment , and more seriously , a talking point about respecting peoples views — particularly within our church communities . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The parish church helped us in other ways . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 10 | Mr told us about regional offices , about how many of those were there in nineteen eighty seven ? |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | About four years later all three children told us in private conversations that they were missing contact with their respective fathers . |
| 14 | I put on my coat and we went out to where the wind welcomed us with savage glee . |
| 15 | While Mary did her dance practice her husband Ian joined us with other families on some of the excursions . |
| 16 | A moment later , Dr Livesey , Gray , and Ben Gunn joined us with smoking guns , from among the trees . |
| 17 | ‘ You joined us from Central Records , I see . |
| 18 | [ One of the other Assistant Solicitors in the department also joined us from private practice ; another came from the Bar . ] |
| 19 | José informed us in perfect English that he would pick up the sail in the morning and deliver it , completely repaired , by that afternoon . |
| 20 | I only had to deal with a couple of vicious assaults over the telephone when the magazine I was writing for decided he was too dodgy to get involved with and , with mind-boggling nerve , he threatened us with legal action for breach of contract . |
| 21 | Well Margaret guided us to ruddy Conway in er , anyway , we got there and we had a bit of a bar snack did n't we ? |
| 22 | A week after the operation that took us to Southern Ireland , I was told to take Venturous up the east coast to Hull and from there , after a crew change , we were to carry out extended patrols northwards which would eventually involve us in a complete circumnavigation of the British Isles . |
| 23 | After lunch we took one of the trains hauled by 1618 which took us to Horsted Keynes and up the new extension to New Coombe Bridge . |
| 24 | Our first day 's walk took us along stony tracks , through forests of birch and pine and into a narrow valley . |
| 25 | Turning north took us between Godrevy Point and Godrevy Island . |
| 26 | However in doing so you deprived us of detailed insights into the conditions of life in other parts of the world , and played into the hands of the New Right with its ‘ divide and conquer ’ tactics . |
| 27 | I had the great advantage of being brought up by a really traditional , old-fashioned nanny , who saw us through numerous disasters , one of which was the very memorable moment during the blitz when we were taken to a very smart tea shop in Curzon Street , a place where nannies met each other and their charges were just kept in tow . |
| 28 | This brought us to female suffrage and , indirectly , to dictatorships . |
| 29 | She reminded us of olden-day ferries best forgotten . |
| 30 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |