Example sentences of "[vb past] us for [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 2 | Nothing , however , quite prepared us for the momentous last months of this decade . |
| 3 | Thomasino Boyd , who joined us for the last couple of years , and before that ( in Scots accent ) Doogie Rae . |
| 4 | We could hear the V2s thudding down onto London in the far distance , but the sound came over as a far-off double bang , which puzzled us for a long time until someone told us what it was . |
| 5 | The light dazzled us for a bare ten years with its brilliance , before it was extinguished . |
| 6 | He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’ |