Example sentences of "with us at the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 After we had been at school for about three years Arnold Hodson , who had been Consul in Southern Abyssinia , was staying with us at the beginning of the holidays .
2 Well I remember being aboard the Brandon , because Uncle John came and stayed with us at the cliff and er , er father was at sea somewhere but he came and stayed with us and then he now went down into er to see his captain cos they were sailing on on the tide the next day .
3 Evolution is presented as a progression from simple to complex forms with us at the pinnacle of it all as the most complex .
4 When he finally arrived in Calcutta he was not of course allowed to stay with us at the Sisters , which puzzled you children , but he stayed with the Oxford Mission Fathers and came over every day to see us , until a kindly businessman heard about us and took us along to his palatial house until we could decide what next to do .
5 My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after .
6 The Corporal who was with us at the time , a new one detached from Orange , immediately awarded Mike 2,000 press-ups .
7 The dry , cloudy weather will still be with us at the start of the night , but some patchy , light rain will creep into the Borders and Dumfries and Galloway by the end of the night .
8 From Jibuti my father crossed to Aden and then went to Cairo to confer with Sir Reginald Wingate , the High Commissioner , while we went to Berbera to stay with Geoffrey Archer , the Commissioner in British Somaliland ; he and his wife had stayed with us at the Legation for Zauditu 's coronation in February .
9 Upson would not normally run the winner again , but as he says , ‘ things are not exactly normal with us at the moment .
10 ‘ I 'd find it embarrassing for Prince Charles to be out with us at the moment , ’ said Captain Barker .
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