Example sentences of "have [verb] us for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am glad that she has joined us for the debate . |
| 2 | But nothing has prepared us for this divine outburst . |
| 3 | Henry Porter doubtless spoke for many when he wrote recently in the Guardian : ‘ Little in the post-war years of decline in Britain has prepared us for the deep sense of unease now being experienced by its people . |
| 4 | We had everything beaten expect Jodami , who has done us for foot . ’ |
| 5 | But the God who ‘ has called us for holiness … gives us his Holy Spirit ’ ( I Thess. 4 7,8 ) to enable us to fulfil his requirement . |
| 6 | ‘ Giancarlo has invited us for lunch on Sunday , at his villa in Fiesole . |
| 7 | Our body clock has woken us for the next day after only a minimal opportunity for extra sleep . |
| 8 | Slater glanced at Graham , " Sara and I were next-door neighbours for a while , I do believe our parents may even have intended us for each other at one time , without actually saying anything about it , of course . " |
| 9 | No doubt the grand-old Victorian would have reprimanded us for our thriftlessness , extravagance and improvidence . |
| 10 | We were all keen walkers , and enjoyed the challenge of remote places , but nothing in Britain could have prepared us for this close encounter of the furry kind . |
| 11 | We expected a big postbag but nothing could have prepared us for the fantastic response we received ! |
| 12 | Although having accustomed ourselves to ‘ polyfilla based nutrition ’ nothing could have prepared us for the fish which was served at one of the so-called meals . |
| 13 | Nothing could have prepared us for Holmes ( named after Sherlock Holmes as his ears resembled the detectives hat ) . |
| 14 | Without them having to ask us for the address . |
| 15 | But this was only one of a variety of vessels , some of them much larger , it seems , used by the Vikings , and it is the accident that they still used them for burials which has enabled a small number to survive — the conversion to Christianity may be said to have deprived us for ever of the best evidence we might have had of medieval navigation as it developed in the eleventh and twelfth centuries . |
| 16 | At the end of the formal presentation not all had joined us for the stomach churners , preferring to get to the office and start selling those new protection contracts . |
| 17 | However , nothing had prepared us for the abundance and variety of scallops , mussels , every species in the shrimp to lobster continuum as well as some very funny-looking goose-neck barnacles . |
| 18 | Nothing in our four days on the felucca with this sullen boy had prepared us for this , as nothing could have prepared him for that afternoon in Asyut . |
| 19 | ‘ Mistress Philippa had invited us for supper . ’ |
| 20 | 10 And after he had seen the vision , immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia , assuredly " gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them . |
| 21 | Valeria had asked us for the afternoon and suggested that we should stay on for the evening , as her mother had gone to spend the night with a friend . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | They 've asked us for five . |
| 24 | They 've asked us for two hundred and fifty pounds proposal . |
| 25 | She 's , she 's got , she 's got well , they 've asked us for seven . |
| 26 | So of course inevitably what happened is we got the house lot in just , took it to this place in Leeds , got finished with that load and back for four which is what the estimate had covered us for , and then we had to start all over again with what was in the garage . |
| 27 | I felt sure Miss Havisham had chosen us for each other . |
| 28 | My reason for dwelling at some length on this matter of accuracy and acquisition is that the assumption that they are identical is a corner-stone to the whole edifice of a theory recently propounded which claims to provide a solution to the problems of language teaching which have plagued us for so long . |
| 29 | He says most of the lads that were out there were in their late teens , early 20 's and for them it was an adventure to go out to the tropics — then when you realise what it was about — well it 's marked us for life there 's no two ways about it . |
| 30 | We have a German sister company who have asked us for advice on costs for duplication of videos in this country , the costs being prohibitive in Germany . |