Example sentences of "we [adv prt] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Next time why do n't you come down to see us , to hurry us along a bit ? |
| 2 | But erm I I think some of them let us down a bit . |
| 3 | A Fatah officer with long , dirty hair led us down a slit trench cut into the soft , red earth . |
| 4 | ‘ Better take us down a piece , where the bank levels out . |
| 5 | It 's tied us down a lot . |
| 6 | Said Leonard to us over a bottle of Sabbath wine , ‘ I did not have a scholar 's bent ; at that time I spent many evenings with Layton and we would ‘ crack ’ poetry together — discover the poet 's meaning . |
| 7 | As Ms Harvest has said to us over a satellite link , ‘ Dr Proctor … he was the Devil all right . ’ |
| 8 | ‘ George , he 's got us over a barrel . |
| 9 | More than one of them remarked on how pleasant it was to return to base in the early hours , cold , cramped and tired out , to see our welcoming smiles as they called in at the office on their way down to the Mess , even though they had probably only called in to tear us off a strip for having given them a rotten weather forecast . |
| 10 | We won for a third time at Zandvoort , the first grand prix of the season : apart from the prize money , that moved us up a scale on the start money and suddenly I could see our way through the rest of the season . |
| 11 | So that cheered us up a bit as you can imagine but what really cheered us up was making contact with the Indians . |
| 12 | That bucked us up a bit . |
| 13 | The whole thing sobers us up a bit , but unfortunately not much . |
| 14 | Cos he 's been playing us up a bit you know |
| 15 | What 's more , he did n't come home at midday , when Sal served us up a dinner of fish and chips . |
| 16 | They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station . |
| 17 | It 's a tragedy which will probably set us back a generation . |
| 18 | You could say this for the new position : it took us back a way from the medical cut and thrust . |
| 19 | Bring us back a parrot ! |
| 20 | In gale force winds , and weighed down by a camera around her neck , she just missed bringing us back a prize but she managed to capture some winning shots . |
| 21 | Yet Auriega , I was sure , had wanted to hit us around a bit anyway , and the disappearance of Webb . |