Example sentences of "she [vb past] us [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Instead she read us letters from a boy she had met in the holidays . |
| 2 | She made us tea as well |
| 3 | The day she found us infant boys and girls |
| 4 | She told us stories about her childhood in Clophill ( I think ) but she never told us anything unpleasant , whereas I remember one good lady who loved to horrify us with tales of ghastly happenings ! |
| 5 | ‘ Angela worked in the shop before she left school , delivering papers and when she left school she joined us fulltime . |
| 6 | She liked to see the new plays , and she paid us £10 a play . |
| 7 | She showed us trees with calabashes and wooden fruits , and a thicket of juicy ginger stalks which sheltered huge , pink plastic blossoms . |
| 8 | Next day I tried to question our landlady about walking to Ipsarion as she served us breakfast on the marble terrace under the walnut tree . |
| 9 | She owed us courtesy : she was a servant , she should have given in her notice . ’ |
| 10 | She brought us Parmesan and Italian vegetables and Mena to do an afternoon 's worth of sewing , but it never went right , she disapproved of us dreadfully . |
| 11 | And er , it took us a little time to do that but and it was alright , but , well , but she bought us doughnut in company . |
| 12 | Her Father had been a District Officer in N. Nigeria in the 1920's , and she gave us letters ; a diary ; some amazing old photographs and a telegram ; and , perhaps best of all , the mementoes of Piccin , the baby leopard reared by the family and then given to Edinburgh Zoo in 1929 . |
| 13 | She gave us parties and disapproved of me teaching : Jennifer darling , surely you can get a job in a nice private girls ' school But when I was 14 and had awful tonsillitis she brought me lemon and honey and sat on the edge of the pillow holding my damp hand . |
| 14 | ‘ She gave us nougat , ’ Samantha said . |
| 15 | My mother laughed at this , scornfully ; but in fact she gave us Christmas and birthday presents of clothes and shoes , and the record player came into the house in this way , as my eleventh birthday present . |