Example sentences of "[vb past] us in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 2 | He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ . |
| 3 | Apart form the Air Mont blanc Cessna that buzzed us in the late afternoon , if not the whole range , to ourselves . |
| 4 | I was standing in the bows looking forward when suddenly our gently hissing bow-wave turned into a glowing mass of green fire , which reflected from our hull and bathed us in a ghostly light . |
| 5 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 6 | ‘ The threat from a nuclear war forced us in the post-war period to think in terms of war destroying the whole planet . |
| 7 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 8 | Alec met us in the cobbled streets of Chiguana with an English-speaking doctor . |
| 9 | The metaphor this time is not the one from Genesis which tells how God made us in the divine image , male and female , and that completion lies in the union of men and women . |