Example sentences of "he [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He ruled us with an iron hand and , while he was a very fair man , woe betide any officer who crossed him . |
| 2 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 3 | Upon arrival , he met us with a hefty stick he had dragged from somewhere , plonked it down , nosed it toward me and waited , tail shifting like a black snake . |
| 4 | He met us in the hacienda courtyard dressed in white shirt , white jodhpurs and black riding boots . |
| 5 | With feet of lead he pitches us into the high winds with the wisdom of a professional . |
| 6 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 7 | He led us through a gate and into a perfect little rose garden . |
| 8 | He led us across the antechamber to show us a tar-drenched jacket lined with sulphur which hung from a hook on the wall . |
| 9 | While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow . |
| 10 | A porter opened the double-barred gate , shouting a welcome to the Santerres as he led us along the old causeway which wound past birch , oak and yew trees up to the front of the house . |
| 11 | Our smiles of anticipation dimmed somewhat when he led us into the coffee shop , but he was a good sort and I hope we did not embarrass him . |
| 12 | He led us into the house and introduced us to his two nieces , Nosheen and Simeen . |
| 13 | He led us up a steep track until we were 1,000 feet above the long Lochranza inlet . |
| 14 | He led us past the remains of the Young Eea , a copse of blackened and dead trees , planted some 150 years ago , but drowned when the land was inundated with water . |
| 15 | For an example of this , he refers us to a code of practice of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry , with which some firms who are not members of the association nevertheless voluntarily agree to comply . |
| 16 | Only one of them looks directly out of the picture , and he holds us with a gloomy , ironical eye — an unflattered eye , as well , we ca n't help noticing . |
| 17 | 2 He provided us with a new theory as to the essential reality of governing , in the period of classical parliamentary government , in the period when members of the Commons enjoyed a golden age of independence between the fall of patronage and the rise of highly organised political parties . |
| 18 | GUIL : He caught us on the wrong foot once or twice , perhaps , but I thought we gained some ground . |
| 19 | He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me . |
| 20 | He referred us to a dictum of Simon Brown J. in Reg. v. Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth , Ex parte Wachmann [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , 1040 , which is to the following effect : |
| 21 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 22 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 23 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 24 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 25 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 26 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 27 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
| 28 | With Matthew able to drive , he dropped us at the start and picked us up at the other end , and we arrived within 2 minutes of each other , which was remarkable because we were all 3/4 hour late ! |
| 29 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 30 | When we said a rather overwhelmed no thank you , he directed us to the V.I.P.lounge to wait for our flight — cream leather armchairs free tea , coffee or soft drinks , sandwiches , cakes and more free newspapers . |