Example sentences of "we and [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | I would be honoured if you sat a while with us and shared the ch ‘ a . ‘ |
| 2 | He walked around behind us and stuck the gun in my back . |
| 3 | ‘ She made this a wonderful day for us and eased the pain tremendously . ’ |
| 4 | José , the handsome porter , stepped out to greet us and filled the courtyard with his dazzling smile . |
| 5 | ‘ Now we have to put that behind us and get the two wins we need to be safe . ’ |
| 6 | I understand the point you 're making about er self regulation and er I think it 's brought a lot of the problems upon us and enabled the frauds to take place er and that 's what de-regulation and self regulation leads to . |
| 7 | Stupidly , the English followed us and made the same mistake . |
| 8 | We moved from the orchard taking the prisoners with us and leaving the wounded to be taken to the rear . |
| 9 | Dr Norman Davy used to point out to us and name the many different kinds of birds to be seen from the physics laboratory windows and I remember vividly the almost tangible stillness of those very early mornings when , on its roof , I whirled a hygrometer whilst recording the arrival of sound waves from gunfire at Shoeburyness in Essex . |
| 10 | Some of the men climbed in after us and put the cover down on the back , so no one could see us . |
| 11 | Then Stok gave Major Nogin a cigar , and the major smiled at both of us and left the room . |
| 12 | Same mortgage as us and earning the same as Dave . |
| 13 | He drove up to us and wound the window down . |
| 14 | He was a very serious man , I 'm told , and totally unlike my uncle , his brother , who came to live with us and run the farm when father died . |
| 15 | In spite of the more sophisticated pleasures of town life the period spent at Number Five made the greater impression on us and provided the picture of Lewis that we shall always retain . |
| 16 | Agrippa demanded at once as Catesby bolted the door behind us and scrutinised the long , low-ceilinged chamber as if eavesdroppers lurked in its very shadows . |
| 17 | People had been wandering past us and paying the man in the booth in the white lodge and I 'd been envying them opening their purses and their wallets and shelling out all that money . |
| 18 | And they saw the Old Bill nicking us and letting the coons go . |
| 19 | It is because God loves us and desires the best for our humanness and growth that he declares a law against covetousness . |
| 20 | We sincerely hope that Mr Taylor will stay with us and defeat the handful of critics at the next election . |
| 21 | The bear said , ‘ Put the bag between us and open the top of it . ’ |
| 22 | I 'm not gon na go over t what my colleague has said but what I do wan na know is when are the Labour Party gon na get hold of some issue and make some sort of mileage out of it , because we 've got a number of sponsored MPs and we ca n't get 'em off the doorstep at election time , but when it comes about doing summat for us and consider the fact that it affects many many people and we talk about the links that the Labour Party and the trade union has , I think the Labour Party 's already severed 'em , as far as I 'm concerned . |
| 23 | In my elevated state I was afraid only that the cop might search us and discover the Dexedrine in Dana 's pocket . |
| 24 | Smiling broadly to herself she closed the heavy wooden door behind us and fastened the little chain latch on to a nail on the adjacent door . |
| 25 | It worked both ways , protecting us and protecting the Legion . |
| 26 | He was one of the search party drummed up by Diggs after my father and relations missed us and could n't find us and called the police . |
| 27 | Well they normally stay in now , er , Monday and Tuesdays usually Lisa and Kev stay in with us and watch the telly with us they go , he plays pool Wednesday |