Example sentences of "[vb pp] us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had first spied us from the balcony of ‘ their ’ room . |
| 2 | ‘ Our visit has impressed us with the skill and the quality of our soldiers , and with the risks they run . |
| 3 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 4 | You should have phoned us at the Club . ’ |
| 5 | Dan Sandford had met us at the railway station in Addis Ababa and had brought with him Omar , our prospective headman , to clear our baggage through customs and deal with the other formalities . |
| 6 | ‘ It did our heads in a bit , freaked us out just for the fact that everybody who 's ever met us in the business knows exactly how we are . |
| 7 | The bread and the wine are consecrated with the reminder that ‘ through Jesus , God has freed us from the slavery of sin ’ and given us a life that is free of such bondage . |
| 8 | Our discussions of last week seem to have lead us to the Railway Tavern at 12–12:30 . |
| 9 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 10 | Michael has told us down the pub , if they had more than a week 's notice |
| 11 | ‘ That 's all very well , but Chamberlain 's only just told us on the wireless that the war 's begun . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ The City is certainly more inclined to look kindly on the film trade than before , and thus a considerable weight that has handicapped us in the past is removed ’ , remarked John Maxwell , as he launched British International Pictures ( BIP ) as a public company with interests in production , exhibition and distribution . |
| 13 | ‘ You 've sold us down the river , ’ became a familiar shout from across a crowded bar . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | You 'd have had us over the edge in a minute ! ’ |
| 16 | UN officials have said stockpiled food may spoil , and Ms Landgren added that a shell which had damaged a warehouse on Saturday had also ‘ alerted us to the danger of letting stuff pile up . ’ |
| 17 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It has really played us into the game and I think the Prime Minister has made a considerable mistake . |
| 19 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 20 | At the Regina station Mr Murray insisted on climbing up into the engine tender to shake hands with and thank the engineer and fireman who had brought us through the storm on this far-from-ordinary journey . |
| 21 | Hello there … this week summer sport has brought us to the south coast to take a look at a sailing revolution that 's being pioneered from the heartland of Central South … we 're going out on the solent to sea test a boat which is reckoned to be the formula one of the water |
| 22 | The aesthetic evidenced in these rooms has also brought us to the brink of World War Ill . |
| 23 | The dots have brought us to the bottom of a page — an appropriate point , since we have also , surely , reached the nadir of these proceedings , perhaps of all proceedings in the whole history of the modern Civil Service . |
| 24 | First of all erm he justified his view on environmental considerations as as considered by the City Council , I think we would say , the County Council , that one of the main considerations that has brought us to the conclusion that we have are environmental considerations , the environment of York and its immeding immediate surroundings , the protection er of the York greenbelt , environmental considerations have been er at the most er in our minds . |
| 25 | Once I had said my thanks and farewells to William and to the immense policeman who had silently accompanied us throughout the afternoon , I headed away down the rutted tracks , rather glad to be back on the road and off back to Panama City . |
| 26 | I would like to emphasize that erm the Greater York authorities have n't lightly arrived at erm the strategy for a new settlement , er we have been driven to it by a very careful examination of the development possibilities , firstly around the edge of York , and secondly around the various villages , we know these areas erm intimately from our day to day planning work , and on two occasions , once in connection with the Greater York study , and secondly in connection with drawing detailed greenbelt boundaries we have tramped around the edges of all these settlements and looked very carefully at the possibilities for development , erm the possibilities have been taken up in the development equation , which the County Council has put in front of you , which does still include er some development around villages and around the edge of the city without harming greenbelt , but we do n't really think we can go much further , and that 's what has driven us to the conclusion that er a new settlement must play a part in the longer term development equation for Greater York . |
| 27 | The underlying improvement in operating performance and the restructuring implemented in 1992 have set us on the path to full recovery . |
| 28 | I could not find him , and I began to hope that he had not followed us to the hotel . |
| 29 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 30 | Thus , a consideration of earlier work on DMVs has led us to the conclusion that the settlement patterns we actually see on the maps and in the landscape consist of a range of settlements , at various stages of development at all periods ; everything , in fact , from surviving medieval villages to totally abandoned farm sites . |