Example sentences of "they [vb past] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Still , they met us with fire trucks ; we were politely assigned an armed guard and warned not to take pictures . |
| 2 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 3 | They battered us into the bushes , and made off into the forest with the cart and the team and the load , and left us to limp away on foot wherever we would . |
| 4 | And they , they asked us about mines in the area and we said mines |
| 5 | Then they asked us for lunch . |
| 6 | Then they led us into a building and kept us there , all together . ‘ |
| 7 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 8 | It was a wonderful experience , they entertained us at their home and took us to see some of Auckland 's wonderful sights . |
| 9 | You only just missed it , they divided us after the R's . |
| 10 | When they approached us about other products and about doing a commercial , we said no . |
| 11 | But they 're they were all kind ladies and er the thing that they punished us with really was made of cardboard , like er , er a pointer or a stick , it was a pointer that they pointed to the board when they drew things on and told us about them , but sometimes boys By the way , boy sat with girl , at the desk with two in and er it was quite satisfactory , I do n't remember any other upset with being there th th th there were two sexes , we were five years of age to begin with and stayed till seven . |
| 12 | Cos the mortgages and that but there 's a lot of them , and kids causing it , and Christmas was coming well you know we just , that 's when they helped us at Christmas was really fantastic yes , true I never thought anything really out of this world how the how the people helped We got toys and everything for the kids ' Christmas , everything you could think of . |
| 13 | When they killed Chico , they transformed us into thousands of Chicos . ’ |
| 14 | They overtook us with science , and [ sound of explosion ] Islam … [ burst of gunfire and sound lost ] . |
| 15 | They influenced our BEHAVIOUR and they drew us into the realms of MYSTERY . |
| 16 | These short features were independent of my research for the book but they provided us with an opportunity of working together and getting to know each other . |
| 17 | The cyclists received a marvellous reception from the staff of JM Birmingham at 6am on completing this most challenging stage and they provided us with an excellent cooked breakfast . |
| 18 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 19 | So anyway , at Khabarovsk we were eating ice-cream — there were always ice-cream sellers on the platform — and I was taking pictures of David and sneaking pictures of the soldiers who were on the platform with us but , unfortunately , they caught us at it . |
| 20 | ‘ Leeds were on top of their game when they thrashed us at Hillsborough in January , ’ said defender Nigel Worthington . |
| 21 | Denis and Astrid met us at Boston airport , waving large federal flags and they transported us to Astrid 's parents ' home in Becket , Massachusetts . |
| 22 | ‘ We got out of jail in Dublin and despite winning both games , they played us off the park ’ he claimed . |
| 23 | Anyway … they told us to hand in all our Arctic kit , fur parkas , white camouflage , etc . ’ |
| 24 | They told us of exciting events that had taken place in the valley below their house the previous year , the result of an attempted coup by Ras Hailu , the hereditary ruler of Gojjam . |
| 25 | They told us at school to ask a policeman if we got lost , and show him our yellow card with our name and address on it . |
| 26 | She said : it must be what they told us about . |
| 27 | They told us within three days of your signing on . |
| 28 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 29 | They amazed us by leaping high out of the water and somersaulting two or three times before nosing beneath it again without missing a beat . |
| 30 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |