Example sentences of "and [pers pn] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | PLAYER : Why , we grow rusty and you catch us at the very point of decadence — by this time tomorrow we might have forgotten everything we ever knew . |
2 | Marco said , ‘ Let's say we pay the fine and the crystal and you take us to Titan . ’ |
3 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
4 | We wonder if she has ever heard of chronic paranoid schizophrenia , and she tells us to be quiet . |
5 | And … and she set us to the station , and … and Mama promised to write . ’ |
6 | The manager was okay — all she wanted was to get the place calmed down — and she showed us out the back way . ’ |
7 | He had the operation the next day and they took us for a couple of minutes and that was it — they just did n't care . |
8 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
9 | We left them some cigarettes and they sent us on our way . |
10 | ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’ |
11 | Denis and Astrid met us at Boston airport , waving large federal flags and they transported us to Astrid 's parents ' home in Becket , Massachusetts . |
12 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
13 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
14 | 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 |
15 | And they accept us for what we are and we 've got a good erm relationship with the the people w who are left in er the flat complex . |
16 | We ran away with Oliver between us , and they chased us with dogs . ’ |
17 | They influenced our BEHAVIOUR and they drew us into the realms of MYSTERY . |
18 | We phoned the vet and they talked us through what was happening . |
19 | The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast . |
20 | That was for the older girls , and they frightened us to death with tales of what this Fanny-Annie , as they said called her , had er had said to them , and how rude she was , terrible . |
21 | I mean Newcastle , we went to Newcastle and they showed us round the ground er when there was no match on and we saw the trophies and the directors ' box and various places like that . |
22 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
23 | They are patronising and they insult us by not understanding — and ignoring — the real requirements of our time . |
24 | When children nowadays are becoming more responsible to our society , and they see us as one world we have a responsibility to protect ourselves and our world , and that includes the animals in it . |
25 | We left and he followed us to the church door . |
26 | ‘ We had forms to fill in , and he touched us for fags into the bargain , and we had to get water from the well . ’ |
27 | He forgives us ours sin and he cleanses us from all our sin . |
28 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
29 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
30 | Like Ruth , we were strangers , we were aliens , we were outside , we had nothing to say , well I 've got some right , we had no right at all but he came and he took us and he brought us in , and he has made us , who were nothing , something . |