Example sentences of "they have [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Without them having to ask us for the address . |
| 2 | Then they 'd they 'd bunged us in the train and sent us down to Marseilles . |
| 3 | To see Di Stefano , Puskas and Gento caress and flick the ball , to see their back-heel passes and drag-backs and overhead kicks , was to realise that our school-yard coaches had it wrong when they 'd hectored us into a kick-and-run , ‘ fixed bayonets ’ type of football . |
| 4 | They 've asked us for five . |
| 5 | They 've asked us for two hundred and fifty pounds proposal . |
| 6 | She 's , she 's got , she 's got well , they 've asked us for seven . |
| 7 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 8 | ( ‘ They 've kicked us in the teeth so often ’ , ‘ They tried to write us off like they did Kenya ; but we would n't stand for it . ’ ) |
| 9 | You probably would n't even recognise a moment like that today if it happened , now they 've turned us into football TV junkies with all this coverage . ’ |
| 10 | Well , they 've sent us in an application er , very detailed , very go good letter , actually . |
| 11 | if I needed any I , I used to ask my boss or phone up head office and say petty cash is getting a bit low I 've used a lot of stamps last week , they 'd send me up a cheque and , never any question of they 've provided us with tea and the pint of milk I use , I , I 'd bring it in with me or ask the |
| 12 | It 's crazy saying that when they 've forced us to be nomadic . |
| 13 | and er they had to call us in , well Dick went out and er I think it was actually two separate visits so they must of , cos they 're refurbishing the place you see so they must of moved into one office and thought oh you know this do n't work , move into another office the day after , well this do n't work either and he , he actually did two separate visits , whether they 'll actually bill them for it I do n't know , but I mean it 's a minimum of an hour in both cases so |
| 14 | We were pleased to see the Canadians do so well in the World Cup after they had beaten us over there ’ ! |
| 15 | We were determined to rid Glasgow of the ‘ culture ’ ( mould and dampness ) they had landed us with all those years before . |
| 16 | It was also he who told me of the Great Ones , ’ he went on with a faraway look , ‘ and how they had chosen us to be saved to do this . ’ |
| 17 | Boxes and boxes of very expensive camera equipment and food supplies had been unloaded from a large helicopter in quiet astonishment by the Norwegian crew before they had abandoned us in a flurry of gravel . |
| 18 | IN THE course of our lives , events take place , with which the passage of time , we come to realise are like milestones ; they have pointed us in a new direction , often posing a challenge which in the providence of God , when accepted , leads us deeper into his life and service . |
| 19 | They have presented us with an extraordinary melange of figures which are hugely contradictory . |
| 20 | They have landed us with a society which grows increasingly barbaric and animal , in which amoral behaviour is considered the norm . |
| 21 | Twice in the last half century they have plunged us into British wars and twice have they taken our finest youth from under our beds and from behind our hams . |
| 22 | With the same idea as in Venezia Giulia — that possession is nine tenths of the law — they have raced us into Austria . |
| 23 | The people who employ me , the Eastern Health and Social Services Board and the government , in the past have called us in the RVH , and now it all depends who they are talking to — if they are talking to the American delegation we are Marxist revolutionaries and if they are talking to other delegations they have branded us as Provos . |
| 24 | You see when the erm legislation changes shortly , well the legislation is there but when it 's enacted erm they they will become responsible for repairing after their own hole digging and they have to provide us with guarantees . |
| 25 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 26 | They have left us with a divided artist . |
| 27 | ‘ Now , despite inflation and the many extra duties they have entrusted us with , they insist on a budget of £20.2m . |
| 28 | That our perceptual apparatus is reliable and our abductive sense is sound do not , for the Quinean position , need arguing ; we have ample evidence that they have guided us to the truth on many occasions . |
| 29 | Some governing bodies may consider that their needs at both levels presently are satisfied or that they have advised us of their requirements . |