Example sentences of "he [vb past] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 2 | He led us across the antechamber to show us a tar-drenched jacket lined with sulphur which hung from a hook on the wall . |
| 3 | A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house . |
| 4 | Our smiles of anticipation dimmed somewhat when he led us into the coffee shop , but he was a good sort and I hope we did not embarrass him . |
| 5 | He led us into the house and introduced us to his two nieces , Nosheen and Simeen . |
| 6 | He led us past the remains of the Young Eea , a copse of blackened and dead trees , planted some 150 years ago , but drowned when the land was inundated with water . |
| 7 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 8 | He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me . |
| 9 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 10 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 11 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 12 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 13 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
| 14 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
| 15 | When we said a rather overwhelmed no thank you , he directed us to the V.I.P.lounge to wait for our flight — cream leather armchairs free tea , coffee or soft drinks , sandwiches , cakes and more free newspapers . |
| 16 | He showed us into the buffet , and waitresses brought vodka and red caviare and stared at us in that curious but not impolite way that so many people do in Russia . |
| 17 | In my very early childhood , it was in Mr Knight 's pony and cart ; but then Mr Lewarne had a motor car , and from then on he fetched us from the station . |
| 18 | ‘ All political figures are mad , ’ said Reid as he joined us on the veranda . |
| 19 | Sec secondly we must welcome Paul to the meeting , as you know he joined us at the beginning of January to run the neighbourhood watch schemes and as office manager I thought it appropriate he attend the management meetings . |
| 20 | We left and he followed us to the church door . |
| 21 | And they like the computer teacher he wo he se he taught us from the very beginning step by step , or even how to plu plu push the plug in . |
| 22 | and she , he pulled us to the erm steps . |
| 23 | He waved us across the room to stand behind him . |
| 24 | And , as he warned us about the hewers of coal , we are as capable of forgetting that , as he did , " as we forget the " blood in our veins ' . |
| 25 | He warned us of the considerable social upset that these advances might cause . |
| 26 | Then , lowering the light , he guided us along the banks of a stream to a pond . |
| 27 | His flight engineer WO W. G. Higgs wrote : On the night of 10/20 September 1942 we were attacked by a Bf110 from below ; he hit us in the port mainplane and set fire to numbers five and six fuel tanks , " the ailerons were jammed and the fuselage was also on fire . |
| 28 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 29 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 30 | After dinner he took us to the Royal College of Art , where he seemed proud to be an honorary member of the faculty club and students ' union . |