Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Finally he agreed to provide us with an escort to Aussa . |
| 2 | He had no news of John , but once we had overcome an initial awkwardness , he tried to tell us about his experience . |
| 3 | ‘ Are you saying Mills was a traitor , that he helped to mislead us into thinking WIN was genuine ? ’ |
| 4 | Last week he promised to supply us with a written explanation of the way his company had treated Debbie , but it never arrived . |
| 5 | He converted my mother to Food Reform , and when she made a salad of grated vegetables for Christmas dinner in 1955 , my father walked out and I wish he 'd taken us with him . |
| 6 | ‘ He came to tell us about the arrangements , it was n't very well organised |
| 7 | Typical of Geoff 's talent was the opening goal he scored to set us on the way to a Wembley victory over Everton in the Zenith Data Systems Cup Final in April 1991 , cleaving his way though The Toffees ' defence to head home from a corner and , perhaps partly because of Palace 's and Geoff 's success at Wembley , he was awarded his first full International cap when England travelled to Turkey for the European Nations Championship tie on May Day 1991 . |
| 8 | When I got there he was pleased to see me ; he seemed to expect us to be able to do something about his leg but of course we could n't . |
| 9 | After a few days he started telling us about the year spent in isolation . |
| 10 | On being granted leave , he decided to take us to India and visit his brother , Lord Chelmsford , the Viceroy . |
| 11 | My father for some reason went to Cheltenham , where he was happy ; but he decided to send us to Eton . |
| 12 | Probably the best measure of Paul 's capabilities is that he was an ever-present member of the side which took the Palace to the 1976 FA Cup semi-finals and of the promotion team of 1976–77 until he chose to leave us for Tampa Bay Rowdies in February 1977 . |
| 13 | This was an original he was very proud of this and he kept telling us about this . |
| 14 | He did invite us to his Silver Wedding party in the Inns of Court in London . |
| 15 | Cliff had a magnificent physique , was always commanding in the air and possessed a fearsome shot — and Palace fans knew his quality from previous encounters , when he had opposed us for Watford and Northampton . |
| 16 | He had missed us at Alassio and followed the train in his car , he had something to speak to her about . |
| 17 | I intended to say merely that we had done as he had instructed us in his letter , hoping that he would thereby confirm the letter as a matter of course . |
| 18 | His strategy was that he spent big , to give the club momentum , once he had got us to the top , he knew we were living beyond our means , but hoped that the structure he created would maintain our position . |
| 19 | But he had to keep us on that . |
| 20 | ‘ Do you know , Father , it was n't until Whitton was dead that I realised how he had held us in his evil thrall . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ He wanted to see us at four-thirty . ’ |
| 22 | But I can remember one thing that happened in in that respect was that the superintendent came down to a meeting or he wanted to see us after nationalization . |
| 23 | He wanted to bring us into the twenty-first century . |
| 24 | type canoe , India , Indian canoe type thing you see and the blo but he was a an old mariner , he was seventy seven and he volunteered to take us on the river . |