Example sentences of "he [verb] us [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | And he asked us in a group to suggest some things that we might think of as being important . |
| 3 | He led us through a gate and into a perfect little rose garden . |
| 4 | While Janine and John cooked supper , he led us on a trek through the woods and around the two-mile meadow . |
| 5 | He led us up a steep track until we were 1,000 feet above the long Lochranza inlet . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 : |
| 10 | He dropped us in a short street which led to the entrance to the Taj . |
| 11 | He informed us in a haughty spirit that he would give my people thirty days to go back home , collect all their stock , and move to the reservation , saying , ‘ If you are not here in that time , I shall consider that you want to fight , and will send my soldiers to drive you on ’ . |
| 12 | He joined us from a Derbyshire side near his native Tibshelf and made his Southern League debut at Bristol Rovers oh 7 December — and what a debut it turned out to be ! |
| 13 | Fortunately , the landlord had n't seen our arrival and he served us with a smile and an offer of menus . |
| 14 | He keeps us in a prison camp |
| 15 | But first he takes us on a brisk trot through lesser ranges , principally the Alps , from Balmat on Mont Blanc to the many feats of Mummery and beyond . |
| 16 | By his technique , by the force of words and theme , by the disciplined speed of his narrative , he draws us into a fiction which takes off from a foundation of known fact and recognisable truth . |
| 17 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 18 | We met the most morbid man in the world when we were there , he took us on a guided tour of all these famous murder sights — including the Dakota building where John Lennon got shot . ’ |
| 19 | Reluctantly , he took us to a single kennel at the back of the offices . |
| 20 | We arranged to meet outside his local church , and first of all he took us to a garage where he negotiated a good price for a new car battery ! |
| 21 | One of the Ness men was acting as guide and he took us to a rock bothy which the men use during their stay . |
| 22 | Sitting at a counter surrounded by the fulsome figures of the Boo Yaa Tribe , with his goatee beard and black stetson hat , he tells us about a party he 's giving at his home in Chicago . |
| 23 | After de Raimes sacked Tracy he kept us in a dungeon for three months until Alice was forced to become his mistress , and had it not been for Edmund I would have lost my mind . ’ |
| 24 | , whose organisation distributes many of our export products , highlighted opportunities facing the Company when he presented us with a commemorative certificate to mark the Chilton opening and to celebrate over 15 years of close co-operation . |
| 25 | Teaming up with the Unanimous Decision Crew he talks us through a languid groove based story of how ‘ hard it is for a black man to get a job ’ , ‘ If you 're black , what 's your destination ? ’ he enquires . |
| 26 | He left us for a glamorous Frenchwoman and he never even sent me a card in all that time . ’ |
| 27 | After a week in the swamps he left us in a camp at the north end of the Okavango . |
| 28 | He conducted us to a new restaurant , the Hungry Horse , which was pronouncedly ‘ gay ’ , with all the young waiters in tight-fitting cotton trousers of small blue-and-white checks . |
| 29 | ‘ And he set us on a new track as far as putting human rights violations in a political context was concerned . |