Example sentences of "[vb past] [prep] us [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian came with us part of the way , so we took two cars and left ours at the finishing point and Ian 's at the entrance to the track . |
| 2 | It seemed to us nonsense that the benefit system should be duplicating the role of educational provision in that way . |
| 3 | In my view our fellow Members , who lived with us cheek by jowl , were fully aware of my strengths and weaknesses and were unlikely to be impressed by pictures of me on their TV screens dressed in a striped apron and pretending to wash up in the kitchen , as had happened during the Tory leadership election . |
| 4 | To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and disperse — the cloud that dulled the heart and made happiness no more than a memory ! |
| 5 | Tragic father died for us vicar |
| 6 | I therefore took with us Ergay , one of our zabanias , selected a place to sleep under an overhanging rock and sent him back to camp to bring Birru in the evening with a mule , blankets and food . |
| 7 | The camera can take us into people 's homes and lives and places of work and lay before us evidence of what life and work is like in another country . |