Example sentences of "a [noun sg] [verb] us " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | There was a sister watching us all the time , and when we went to walk out into the garden she said it was n't allowed . |
| 2 | For the first time ever there 's racing at Cheltenham this sunday … its going to be a fun day … and so too is tomorrow for the winner of the first big steeplechase of the year … it 's the Mackeson Gold Cup … there 's fifty five thousand pounds in prizemoney … our search for a winner takes us to Herefordshire and a horse called Spacefair |
| 3 | A stick to beat us with ? |
| 4 | In life , we make a decision — or a decision makes us — and we go one way ; had we made a different decision ( as I once told my wife ; though I do n't think she was in a condition to appreciate my wisdom ) , we would have been elsewhere . |
| 5 | Mr Aitchison said last night that the consortium was still speaking to ‘ a number of interested parties demonstrating a willingness to help us ’ . |
| 6 | One delegate commented : ‘ It could be used as a trick to keep us in residential care . ’ |
| 7 | Impatience even — which is a blight threatening us all the time . ’ |
| 8 | Angelo 's judgement on Claudio , a death sentence for having got his bride with child , is severe but consistent with his principles , and he can affirm without hypocrisy , although self-righteously , Yet the confrontation with Isabella , come to appeal on her brother 's behalf , fills Angelo with desire for the first time in his life , and a soliloquy gives us this crucial information about his new state : Shakespeare there presents Angelo in a soliloquy nearer the mode of tragedy than comedy . |
| 9 | Mrs. Peggy Webb has a story to tell us . |
| 10 | A porter let us in and we were taken into a great yard . |
| 11 | Now we can have a photographer visiting us to make a video , so that we can remember this magical day for the rest of our lives . |
| 12 | A minor skirmish with the bank on a hairpin gave us a puncture [ and heart failure ! ] . |
| 13 | I think the principle was that if the terrorists came round the corner , then they 'd make such a noise shooting us that they 'd wake up everybody inside and give them time to lock the door , and that was really our only role . |
| 14 | MEANWHILE a Gadspy sends us a Yorkshire Post cutting in which Foreign Office minister Tristan Garel-Jones is branded both racist and xenophobic . |
| 15 | I got ta make a dozen mince pies for the , she said can you make a dozen mince for the , I said no Sheila , she said pardon , I said no , I said I 'd buy twelve I will not make twelve , so after that she 's , then went round everybody could make twelve mince pies , it 's a bit of a nerve is n't it ? , seems a bit of a nerve asking us to buy the wool and make |
| 16 | ‘ That 's one of the reasons why we changed our name — a fan told us that our music is something to feel good about . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ At Christmas , a fan sent us the remains of their Christmas dinner , ’ recounts Patrick , with a measure of embarrassment , ‘ a potato , some stuffing , and a mince pie . ’ |
| 18 | You went away with a photograph to show us . |
| 19 | So would somebody from Group A like to tell us what Group B press release was about . |
| 20 | O nine O four six four one six four one any calls about dogs or er any other sort of animal you want to give us a ring call us now . |
| 21 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
| 22 | We still had one Munro to go in our master plan , which was Meall Garbh to the north of Ben Lawers , but two minutes of huddling behind a rock reminded us that plans can be changed . |
| 23 | We are very unlikely to come across a headline telling us that a member of the Anglican Church has killed himself ( unless , perhaps , it is a vicar ) — in fact , the Anglican 's religious affiliation is one of the last things likely to be mentioned in a report . |
| 24 | Passing one by one in front of a counter , a Corporal sized us up for height and girth before dumping a pile of cast-off clothes in front of each one of us . |
| 25 | In fourteen years the Northern Region alone has lost over two hundred thousand manufacturing jobs and when a fella visiting us today says that we 're all workers , I remember telling me that , that we di might eat all out the same trough , but by the hell they have bigger spoons than we have . |
| 26 | There a lady showed us to our seats , once we had got comfortable we were shown a safety routine by the stewardesses . |
| 27 | The hillside was riddled with the burrows of Audubon 's shearwaters and the warden pulled out a youngster to show us . |
| 28 | We can define the unknown in broad terms — " What would increase our margins here ? " — and this is really defining a search area In essence a question tells us the answer with which we would be satisfied : if our thinking can get us to this point we can stop that line of thinking . |
| 29 | ‘ A bloke told us to watch it because there was a police car around the corner taking names and addresses . |
| 30 | They 'll try a feint to bring us out before they risk all , and they 'll want to bring up their pikemen as close as may be . |