Example sentences of "they [verb] us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | May they preserve us from the hermetic seal . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 5 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 6 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 7 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 8 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 9 | Other member states bypassed us on the single currency by giving us an opt-out , for which the Prime Minister had to pay at Maastricht — and for which the British people will have to pay even more in the months ahead — and they bypassed us on the social chapter by simply going ahead without us . |
| 10 | They saw us as a natural choice to work with . |
| 11 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 12 | In their ‘ rightness ’ they leave us with a profound sense of ‘ wrongness ’ which many of us store to considerable effect , decades later . |
| 13 | ‘ They thanked me very much and said how pleased they were to be so well looked after , then they kicked us in the appropriate part of the anatomy . ’ |
| 14 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 15 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |