Example sentences of "and [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally , still silent , she turned and led us into the main room . |
| 2 | He helped the crew hang up their coats , said , ‘ So ! ’ again , and led us into the living-room , a modest affair with a bookcase of mainly naval books , a desk with photographs of his dead family , a crucifix , and , on a separate table , a model of a U-boat . |
| 3 | A German interested in the project was visiting Cirencester and saw our trees and asked us about the clippings . |
| 4 | and then er dad and Mike come down in the Sierra and met us in the pub . |
| 5 | I 'm looking for the magical pleasureboat , to carry us off and lose us in a kingdom out at sea . |
| 6 | He has n't redeemed and restored back to what we were , but he 's gone way , way beyond that , in making us his children and bringing us into a very special relationship with himself . |
| 7 | No , well they 've actually done something this time , the accountant 's going to be there , I mean when we went last time they just said we know nothing about running a hall , we bought you here to tell us and charged us for the privilege . |
| 8 | Often the wonderful natural natural story-teller in Walker breaks through the marshmallow and has us on the edge of the chair , but finally and lamentably this is a failure . |
| 9 | They have accepted us and used us for the furthering of the Kingdom here in Taquaral . |
| 10 | Another essential ingredient of our diet is fibre , the importance of which is to provide bulk to keep our gastro-intestinal tracts working satisfactorily and to provide nourishment for the beneficial bacteria which , in health , inhabit our large intestines and supply us with a not inconsiderable proportion of our daily vitamin requirements . |
| 11 | Henry smiled and dismissed us with a flick of his fingers . |
| 12 | He even realised that we might slide off him when he accelerated , and provided us with a vine , like a rope , to hang on to . |
| 13 | Most remarkable of all , Karl , Barth , having been unable to serve as an observer , later published his reflections ( 1967 , 1969 ) , asking himself such questions as ‘ How would things look if Rome ( without ceasing to be Rome ) were one day simply to overtake us and place us in the shadows , so far as the renewing of the church through the Word and Spirit of the gospel is concerned ? ’ |
| 14 | But they represent a great slice of gardening history ( no plants , no gardens ) and provide us with a rich , exciting and often colourful tapestry of adventure and discovery going back at least several hundred years . |
| 15 | But before we could reach the Pacific , a violent storm hit us and drove us to the north-west of Tasmania . |
| 16 | The wind we had waited for so long quickly rose to gale force , and drove us on a desperate roller-coaster ride for five days and nights . |
| 17 | It 's a privilege and an honour for me to thank him , on your behalf , for coming here tonight and addressing us in the way he has . |
| 18 | Fiver came into the warren and told us about the snare , and that poor Bigwig — " |
| 19 | Gordon Macpherson 's Prosen , a long arch of sound , eerie music from distant mountains with the instruments imitating and overlapping in echo effect , taught the ear to listen and prepared us for a fresh hearing of Tchaikovsky 's Souvenir de Florence , ravishing but not cloying , spinning to a close in the exacting fugue which made the composer laugh when he first played it . |
| 20 | They are narrative , and tell us of a situation , or prepare us for some significant message : Once having told us the story , set the mood , and prepared us for the shout of a choir of angels , Handel could paint a triumphant musical fresco with just a few poetic words : |
| 21 | ‘ And kill us in the meantime . ’ |
| 22 | In the flickering firelight Kalchu beseeched him , ‘ Lord , you are the one who , when we have nothing , feeds us with water and clothes us with the wind . |
| 23 | well I think that , that the , the sending out of the press release immediately was , was quite correct , because obviously people had ride that , sorry people may have read that and something therefore had to be said , my personal view was that really this article is you had , if you like had undone everything that we had been trying to do , erm and put us in a bad light and it maybe my Scottish background , but I do n't like people calling in to question my motives and the companies motives , erm and I felt that it went straight to what we were really standing for , given what I explained about my thoughts in nineteen eighty seven , it was hitting straight to the core of the whole proposition and everything that stood for , erm and that is what was the great concern and because it was n't just like a , a mild slap in the face it was more like a knife in the ribs , it was therefore required a lot more thinking about as to the reaction that we would then have to come up with . |
| 24 | Separation releases the brakes of the inhibition and frees us in the two worlds . |
| 25 | Little mouse has come to say hello and welcome us to the animal show . |
| 26 | It took me about quarter of an hour to sort it all out , and then she asked what train and said she 'd get her mum to agree to ‘ take in this ‘ Vern ’ or whatever his name is ’ and meet us at the station . |
| 27 | And then come back down and meet us in the club when you 've finished . |
| 28 | So , if any of you would like to come and see us at the salon we will both be there and very happy to see and answer any of your questions . |
| 29 | ‘ You remember : they wear pants and take us out to dinner if we 're very lucky and kick us in the teeth every chance they get . ’ |
| 30 | In Valentina 's Italian Family Feast ( Conran Octopus , £15.99 ) , TV favourite Valentina Harris takes us on a tour of Italy and introduces us to the food served by her family at parties and other celebrations . |