Example sentences of "they [verb] us in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 2 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 3 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 4 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 5 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 6 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 7 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 8 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 9 | yeah , well they called us in the canteen |
| 10 | ‘ They kept us in a marshalling area surrounded by tanks being repaired . |
| 11 | ’ So they kept us in a few days . |
| 12 | They resented us in the beginning but I think as the years have gone by and they have seen the facilities that a new town has brought to their advantage I think they 're more acceptable now , but they did resent us in the beginning . |
| 13 | They left us in no doubt about that . |
| 14 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 15 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 16 | ’ They virtually killed off our season when they beat us in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge last year , but now we have the incentive of setting up another Mersey derby if we win . ’ |