Example sentences of "it [vb past] us [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 2 | what I 'm saying to you now is , I was saying to Arthur , the , the petrol money that we used to put in for petrol , it cost us five pound a week in the winter , but in the summer it cost us eight pound a week sometimes ten |
| 3 | I mean they did n't pay for that it cost us more money . |
| 4 | It just , I think it , I think it affected us last week so erm cos the , the Friday night was well down . |
| 5 | It took us all day to get the months ' accumulation of gooey duck muck and seagull poo off the airframe , and despite getting soaked lying in cold puddles of grimy water under the floats we never did remove all the khaki slime from their bottoms . |
| 6 | ‘ We got severely lost and it took us all day to get back . |
| 7 | One official said : ‘ It took us some time to explain away the opening ceremony episode . |
| 8 | ‘ It took us some time to trace Mr Maxwell since his business interests take him all over the States . |
| 9 | It took us some time to get to Kitumbeine and the district officer had knocked off . |
| 10 | It took us some time to reach the conclusion that this was ineffectual , for the class teachers , in copying the professional development teacher , had failed to adapt their teaching to the new context , creating a rather sterile repetition of the initial lesson … |
| 11 | These have now been cleaned up , but it took us some time to cope with this disgraceful state of affairs … the condition of these children , and the behaviour of many of the mothers , has completely dissipated the goodwill and welcome accorded to them by the Welsh people , whose hospitality is proverbial . |
| 12 | It gave us such household names as Glasgow , Linlithgow , Lanark , Bathgate , Dalkeith , Stirling , Perth , Aberdeen , Arbroath , the Tay , the Clyde , the Forth etc , as well as our capital 's Edin , and the famous burn 's Bannock . |