Example sentences of "and [vb past] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , they come and asked us last week if we 'd do it |
| 2 | As it is occasionally covered by the sea this sand is not compact so that at times we could walk fairly comfortably , but at other times we sank in unexpectedly , which broke up our rhythm and made us tired and frustrated . |
| 3 | It was the first time our national and international network had gathered together in one place and made us all realise just how much the work has grown . ’ |
| 4 | He came back full of the experience and made us all quite envious , but he was able to see first hand what went on at the business end of the oil industry and picked up some useful knowledge for future reference when dealing with the oil men . |
| 5 | I thought this was marvellous , good for the lads , and got us all out in the open air . |
| 6 | there were one or two lads in our unit who were sons of er , of er manufacturing , one was er Crawford Biscuits you know , I soldiered with him and I do n't know if you remember er erm , er but anyway , Frank , Frank at Keighley of course when I got , when we got married he , he came up and got us these blankets did n't he ? |
| 7 | Is n't it time that Silver sorted things out and got us some money to buy players even if it means bringing in another board member . |
| 8 | After half an hour the bus started and moved us seventy metres , to the nearest plane , the one we could have walked to , with less effort and staying warmer . |
| 9 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 10 | They said we 'd receive eighty cents a day for six hours work and promised us good food , good houses to live in . |
| 11 | The taxi-driver had been born in Glasgow — our second compatriot of the night — and he took pity on ‘ two wee Scotch lassies ’ , and drove us all the way for a very modest remuneration . |
| 12 | As far as I could tell Frank had recovered from the breakdown we witnessed in late 1986 and , despite the months alone and the awful beatings he 'd received in the Pigsty , he still had a great sense of humour and told us hysterical episodes from his life , many of them against himself . |
| 13 | I says you 're the man told u give us the key for Black 's Row and told us that |
| 14 | The Master dined there last term and told us all about it . |
| 15 | ‘ He was very friendly and told us other people , but no couples , had come forward claiming to be in his picture . ’ |
| 16 | The FO chap knew all about it , of course , and any time things looked like coming off the boil he dived in and assured us this could be the biggest coup since the Zimmerman telegram . |
| 17 | Presently he came out and handed us ten pounds in gold and a cheque for ninety pounds from Coutts 's Bank . |
| 18 | We went round there and showed us all the way round |
| 19 | Yeah , and showed us another one today . |
| 20 | She 'd been to South Africa and showed us some lovely diamonds . |
| 21 | Erm chairman , the erm District Council officer who 's been erm delegated to draw up the scheme for for the parish coun for , for the town did meet erm here , one morning some weeks ago , with myself and Steve , the clerk , and showed us some er a sketch of what was being proposed . |
| 22 | Dr Griffiths spoke first and showed us some of his own cine films of steam runs mainly in the 1970s . |
| 23 | Eadred coolly agreed , informed us that food would be sent across and bade us all a courteous good night . |
| 24 | Then , just before that gig , I went over to Central School of Art in Holborn and swung us another gig there . |
| 25 | He told us to sit down and served us vinegar-tasting wine . |
| 26 | This time they were sent to Alfred Bowles of Ipswich and bear the inscription " Alfred made me and hung us all " . |
| 27 | He surprised and alarmed us all by saying that , following the liberalisation of exit controls , he expected that up to 7 million Soviet citizens would want to work in the west . |
| 28 | John Hayward was awarded the Kenneth Smith Scholarship last year and sent us this report about the Eagles in Kulu |
| 29 | The rest of us saw the year in in a hut halfway down the Greenstone valley ; the warden brewed her own beer , and brought us generous supplies of it ! |
| 30 | When Glen Baxter came for a signing session , we sold 80 copies of his book — a modest number perhaps for a shop of this size , but sales of his ‘ spin-off ’ goods amounted to a further 40% of the shop 's turnover that day and brought us some 16% over our sales target for that week . |