Example sentences of "he [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | I 'm going to write this letter over the next few days , and give it to , of the British Embassy , when he visits us on Wednesday . |
| 32 | He overtook us on the river and arrived ahead of me . |
| 33 | He referred us to a dictum of Simon Brown J. in Reg. v. Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth , Ex parte Wachmann [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , 1040 , which is to the following effect : |
| 34 | We asked him where it came from in the bible , and he referred us to Exodus chapter 14 . |
| 35 | By the time he drops us in Earls Court , the back of his cab smells like we dropped a bottle of brandy . |
| 36 | ‘ He beat us to it , ’ she informed Felipe crossly as he guided her through the crowd , protecting her from knocks . |
| 37 | Well we parked in the car park and he charged us in there |
| 38 | He wants us to be with Him , so that He can show us His Love . |
| 39 | With all Scotland quiet as a flat calm under his hand , he wants us to be quiet too , and let be the Mackinnons and the Maclaines of Lochbuie for a year or three . ’ |
| 40 | We , he wants us to hea hear the words spoken , spoken words , yeah ? |
| 41 | ‘ Father is afraid I 'll die soon , you see , so he wants us to be married tomorrow morning . |
| 42 | ‘ My father 's made it clear enough that he wants us to — to — ’ |
| 43 | He can teach us because He knows us through and through — our strengths , our weaknesses , inclinations and dispositions — and He loves us with an all-penetrating love . |
| 44 | He does n't see us a mass of seventy odd thousand people in Harlow today , he sees you as an individual and he loves us in that same way . |
| 45 | I never went there to stay , but I was always glad when he visited us at Canonmills . |
| 46 | To lighten the proceedings he told us of an incident some years ago when there had still been a whaling station in the town . |
| 47 | Dr Theo Angelov , President of the Baptist Union of Bulgaria , addressed the Wednesday evening rally on ‘ People to People in Europe ’ , when he told us of faithful Christian witness over a period of 40 years by many in his country living through extreme conditions and hardships under Communist rule . |
| 48 | He told us of families who had built ramshackle premises on unused land only to see them bulldozed . |
| 49 | Since becoming assistant to Monsieur Bonard , he has progressed rapidly in the business and only a week ago he told us of his hopes of being made a partner . |
| 50 | He told us about the longest race in Norway ; he had taken part and had done very well , finishing very close to the front of the ‘ amateur ’ racers ( as opposed to those who race dogs for a living ) . |
| 51 | Captain Coote 's sea pieces were fully manned and he told us about his contributing authors , unlike Mr Raban , who gives us only their dates and sometimes a mention in the introduction . |
| 52 | And he , he used to tell us about his travels around America , you know and he , he told us about working in Baltimore in the forty sixth street or something , in a forge , they called them forges out there . |
| 53 | He told us about the open-top Leyland ‘ Queen Mary ’ PD3 double-decker bus ( service 769 ) which runs from Perrymount Road , Hayward 's Heath to Sheffield Park station . |
| 54 | He told us about the chaos that was caused by socialist policies and referred especially to public works departmens . |
| 55 | and then we started speaking to this chap and say we were looking for this place where the erm , they sell all this food and so on , what 's the name of the place , he said oh he says it 's finished , so he said you know where the er , we said er where 's somewhere good you know to , to go and have a nice sleep , and he told us about that place up the mountain where we went , where we all went the last time |
| 56 | He told us about Lisa . |
| 57 | Mr Kinnock has made the change all right , and , since he told us in his speech that he has acted with candour , we must believe him . |
| 58 | The poem is remarkable for its Gothic horrors and its energy , for example : This is not a ‘ Wordsworthian ’ view of Nature , but it helps to explain what the poet meant when he told us in The Prelude that he was haunted by mysterious ‘ presences ’ during childhood and youth ; The Vale of Esthwaite anticipates The Prelude in other ways — the interest is in the mind of the poet , and the effect of the imagination on landscape . |
| 59 | Does he recall that it is exactly a year since he told us in this House , ’ Our policies are working ’ ? |
| 60 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |