Example sentences of "he [be] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There used to be a cafe , a cute ; the er you used to go in and have a cup of tea and that and yo , he started selling jam , pots of jam with they had him in court , it was er it had fell off a lorry and he was selling it a bit cheap and er he were telling us about it . |
| 2 | He is reminding us of the way we are coming to the Lord . |
| 3 | He is taking us on an interesting excursion , |
| 4 | He is telling us about the new initiatives |
| 5 | In the immediate context of The Possessed Kirillov delights even while he is dismaying us by pushing theory — the novel 's Paper Person motif , that is — to the very limit , the born gambler 's limit . |
| 6 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 7 | Erm so he 's keeping us in limbo really |
| 8 | announcement every time there 's a delivery and the brother who 's giving the announcements on a Tuesday or a Thursday , whenever they meet , he , he says that we have new magazines tonight brothers and he may hold them up and said you know , that they 're this and that and lovely , beautiful magazines Jehovah doing so well now through his organization and he 's presenting us with , with erm marvellous erm appealing literature , he holds them up and says we 're , we 're , we 're able to get your magazines tonight and er we would like you to get them straight out at me , and they 're still there two or three weeks later , your magazines , this is a way we can stay spiritually awake , is by going and getting them straight away , not for the benefit of the brothers , poor old brother who is on the job and he 's wondering why , are they gon na come and fetch my magazines or not , but because we need to devour that spiritual feeling , we need to keep up to date with everything that Jehovah 's providing us with . |
| 9 | ‘ He was inviting us for Sunday lunch tomorrow . |
| 10 | I thought he was telling us about a mountain he climbed . |
| 11 | He was teaching us for er physics and er |
| 12 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 13 | Meanwhile Dave had gone to pick up the boss from Stuttgart Airport as he was joining us for the weekend . |
| 14 | I thought he was having us on exaggerating — because there were always people hanging out , trying to crash Malcolm 's scene . |
| 15 | Anyway , he was to escort us to my sister 's lodgings … ’ |
| 16 | In his way — at times — he was directing us to his distance from the script , the movie , the work — ‘ Look ! |