Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ My father ruled us with an iron fist and he hit us with an iron fist too , ’ Joe recalls . |
| 2 | My father grilled us about what we had been doing all week . |
| 3 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 4 | My Dad met us at the airport and , of course , the first thing that I wanted to do was to see my younger brother Russell . |
| 5 | Miss Laverock would often drop into my office to tell us of her next celebrity concert , and she was generous with her courtesy passes . |
| 6 | The engines were just up there and their noise prevented us from thinking about how miserable it all might be . |
| 7 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 8 | But much exists in their architecture to tell us of the social conditions , wealth , success or decline of towns . |
| 9 | Her husband chased us in a jeep , and the oscillations of the basket told him what I was doing to his wife , and the poor man was jealous . ’ |
| 10 | Their fates concern us in reality no more than those of other independent states which were never British dominions . |
| 11 | Next door 's dog jumps our fence and has dug under our sheds , chewing the wood away in her effort to rid us of rabbits ( no complaints , we love the dog ) . |
| 12 | Their Majesties received us with such extraordinary graciousness that , when I shall tell it , people will declare that I have made it up . |
| 13 | Their biographies provide us with access to the professional and class alliances which fed into the politics of mid-Victorian social reform . |
| 14 | Her death reminded us of the dangers of complacency in Africa . |
| 15 | Spurs coach Doug Livermore said : ‘ Andy 's young but in every pre-season game , he was so good , his performances hit us in the eye . ’ |
| 16 | Last but not least , we ventured into another area completely in October , when Mark and his team joined us with their Compliance Testing Service . |
| 17 | His departure left us on the not very charismatic score of 69 for 6 . |
| 18 | May we use his example to remind us to be caring and compassionate to everyone this Christmas time . |
| 19 | More generally , his theory provides us with a remarkable insight into the nature of the British constitution ; the entire thrust of Oakeshott 's work can be interpreted as laying down a view of the world in which the British constitution with its conventions , understandings , and practices which have evolved through a slow historical process actually makes sense . |
| 20 | We now await His Spirit to fill us with His love . |
| 21 | The Messiah has done for us what we could never do in putting us in the right with God ; and the gift of his Spirit releases us from the need to try to justify ourselves . |
| 22 | With our daughter Sara here too , we were ten of us in the house , with Barney and his family and his in-laws joining us for several parties . |
| 23 | His Burmese is n't as good as Thubron 's Chinese , but he gets on terms with the locals without patronage , and his wit gets us through the potentially boring bits . |
| 24 | Paul Zahl in his book Deliver us from Evil gives a graphic illustration of a bush fire sweeping towards two duck hunters . |
| 25 | His plight affects us like the unwilling martyrdom of a saint who wants to be like other men . |
| 26 | The Turkish captain and his men took us to Sallee in Morocco . |
| 27 | He hit one against Liverpool ( H 1–3 ) and another to secure a point at Manchester United ( 1–1 ) in 1969–70 , while in 1970–71 he stunned Leeds with a late equaliser ( H 1–1 ) and at Ipswich his penalty set us on the way to a 2–1 win . |
| 28 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 29 | The Apostle John wrote ‘ the blood of Jesus Christ his Son cleanseth us from ALL sin . ’ |
| 30 | They 've just been terrorizing us and taking our money to protect us from themselves ! ’ |