Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I registered us as Mr and Mrs Wyatt . ’ |
| 2 | But I , I wanted to try something slightly different tonight as a bit of an experiment , I wanted us to sort of put ourselves in the position of the criminal and we plan a burglary of our house and see what , what we think about . |
| 3 | I wanted us to be honest with each other , and I rushed into it , hoping you would understand . ’ |
| 4 | 'E told us on Sunday at the sermon . |
| 5 | When she met us off the train in Paris she was living alone . |
| 6 | ‘ They 've got no consideration , ’ Mrs Grindlewood-Gryke stormed as she met us with a supply of dusters and aerosols and impregnated cloths . |
| 7 | You got us into this , was my uncharitable thought , now you hold the fort while we climb out of it . |
| 8 | I do n't know , it was just a novelty , we 'd never ever , I remember an , an aunt of ours that lived in Plymouth near us , she had a house with an upstairs , but she had a downstairs toilet , so we never got to go upstairs you know it 's just one of those stupid things I suppose , I , I thought it was great and another attraction was I think one of the main reasons you got us to really want to come to Harlow was the fact that we 'd have a television |
| 9 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 10 | She led us past a series of dun-walled anterooms through whose windows the burnished leagues of the East River fired off all their flame . |
| 11 | You forgave us our sins , you cleansed us from all unrighteousness . |
| 12 | But our knitwear in particular , erm she effected us by the little jumper she wore er with Charlie before she got engaged . |
| 13 | Meals on tour were hilarious in her company , as she entertained us with her many anecdotes , always extremely funny but never malicious . |
| 14 | She looked slyly at my master , just like Queen Margaret had , though she greeted us civilly enough , ordering servants to take our guide and the baggage off to the guest house while she entertained us with cups of wine , fresh-baked bread and huge bowls of hot spicy broth . |
| 15 | you made us with white quilting on the front , oh it sounds awful now , but |
| 16 | When she visited us with her boyfriend and said that she would be able to take Susan in a few weeks , we had to disguise our emotions . |
| 17 | But first she invited us to her retreat in rural Sweden to talk about life , love , family — and home |
| 18 | You caught us on the hop there , ol' buddy . |
| 19 | Augustine expressed his own restlessness and desire by saying to God : ‘ You created us for yourself , and our hearts are restless until they find their rest in you . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ What a very , very good thing you stopped us in time ! ’ she said to Brenda . |
| 21 | ‘ I expect you prefer someone like that man in London you told us about — the one with all the medicines . ’ |
| 22 | I mean how do you protect Eurofighter two thousand in the absence of the medium range surface to air missile on the , I think you you told us about er the aircraft themselves as it were providing their own protection but what else ? |
| 23 | When you told us about Naniel and a , you know ? |
| 24 | Oh you told us about that |
| 25 | Being pregnant is a wonderful , life-shaping , sometimes terrifying experience — as you told us in How Does It Feel ? on page 10 . |
| 26 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 27 | When she told us about this visit , she hoped it would be centred around a seminar , funded by the Romanian government , at which tutors would be trained to teach machine knitting to young people whose chances of employment near their own homes were otherwise remote . |
| 28 | She told us about her family once . |
| 29 | erm , we 've never seen and they say this woman big crooks yeah , and the woman she got her dogs chain and she hit her over the back , she 's got all bruises , she told us after when when her report and |
| 30 | ‘ You joined us from Central Records , I see . |