Example sentences of "they [verb] us with " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 2 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 3 | They overtook us with science , and [ sound of explosion ] Islam … [ burst of gunfire and sound lost ] . |
| 4 | On the other hand , they supply us with essential fatty acids , often known as vitamin F , which are the starting materials for prostaglandin synthesis . |
| 5 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |
| 6 | The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast . |
| 7 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 8 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 9 | The point about studies on non-human animals is not that they replace studies on humans but that they provide us with pointers to what we should study in people and how we should study it . |
| 10 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 11 | There 's a limit to what can be done on those little caravan stoves they provide us with . ’ |
| 12 | As recorded by British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) monitoring , he had made the observation that we humans have a short life , and tomorrow we are all going to die , but his last words touched on the need for a return to democracyand for Islam to keep pace with modernization : We see the states that have overtaken us : what did they overtake us with ? |
| 13 | Will they ring us with that tomorrow morning ? |
| 14 | " It 's exactly like those fairy-tale books they terrified us with . |
| 15 | Providing they entertain us with stupendous performances , who cares if sponsors want to make them millionaires . |
| 16 | After an extensive survey of the literature on patriarchy , technological change and the clerical labour process ( already much reviewed in this context ) , they leave us with neither new evidence nor any fresh insights . |
| 17 | In their ‘ rightness ’ they leave us with a profound sense of ‘ wrongness ’ which many of us store to considerable effect , decades later . |
| 18 | We ran away with Oliver between us , and they chased us with dogs . ’ |
| 19 | They eyed us with vague curiosity and then returned to their ( apparently fruitless ) fishing . |
| 20 | They beat us with batons , they beat us with fists , |
| 21 | They beat us with batons , they beat us with fists , |