Example sentences of "us across the " in BNC.
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| 1 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 2 | They take us across the frontiers between the material and the mystical . |
| 3 | A variety of witches faced us across the TV studio and encouraged us by supporting our warning to the public to avoid playing around with the ouija board . |
| 4 | ‘ Till we came to the sea , and then there 'd be lighted ships ready to take us across the world . ’ |
| 5 | turn to salute us across the years … |
| 6 | In biblical language , God makes himself known always and only as the Lord who lays his claim upon us ; in that of Kierkegaard , he is the Subject who can never be reduced to an object , but is always the One who challenges us across the gulf of the ‘ infinite qualitative difference ’ , and so awakens in us the ‘ infinite passion ’ of faith . |
| 7 | The summery sound of a corn bunting 's ‘ jangling keys ’ song followed us across the fields as , at day 's end , we finally made our way back to the car . |
| 8 | A man was unfurling a sail on one of the feluccas , and we ran along the bank and asked him if he would take us across the river . |
| 9 | He waved us across the room to stand behind him . |
| 10 | Standing in the back of one of the pick-ups as it sped across the hard sand , with the dust spiralling out behind us across the vast plain , it seemed that a whole new world was opening up . |
| 11 | The route to Abri took us across the western edge of the Nubian desert , known as the Batn el-Hagar , , the Belly of Stones . |
| 12 | She brought us across the Irish Sea , trusting to God , but God chose her to suffer from the weather and she puked her guts into St George 's Channel , poor thing , and Francie crying because he closed our mother 's eyes , since there was no one else to do it . |
| 13 | I 'd say , nothing , we 've just been up there , and he 'd smack us across the chops with the er gloves , and say , go on , and do n't let me see you here again . |
| 14 | He led us across the antechamber to show us a tar-drenched jacket lined with sulphur which hung from a hook on the wall . |
| 15 | You often hire him to take us across the river . |
| 16 | He moved towards us across the road . |
| 17 | Suddenly I have twisted the gun out of his hand — but it flies away from us across the ground . |
| 18 | In nineteen ninety four they are making us their charity of the year and offering to work with us across the U K to help raise an extra million . |