Example sentences of "they [verb] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 2 | ‘ Now that we have killed off Rex and Woodbum , we seem to have killed off our chances of having them lead us to the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 3 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 4 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Then they led us into a building and kept us there , all together . ‘ |
| 7 | You only just missed it , they divided us after the R's . |
| 8 | May they preserve us from the hermetic seal . |
| 9 | They expect us as a matter of course to advise them if they should be taking advantage of their inheritance and capital gains tax exemptions and to ensure that the share capital structure of their companies is maintained to ensure they are not in control for any tax-related purpose , but can still ensure young Harry is kept in his place . |
| 10 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |
| 11 | They influenced our BEHAVIOUR and they drew us into the realms of MYSTERY . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We got out of jail in Dublin and despite winning both games , they played us off the park ’ he claimed . |
| 17 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 18 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 19 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 20 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 21 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 22 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 23 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 24 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 25 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 26 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 27 | They joined us at the far end of the church , Benjamin shouting at the Santerres to stand back . |
| 28 | I mean Newcastle , we went to Newcastle and they showed us round the ground er when there was no match on and we saw the trophies and the directors ' box and various places like that . |
| 29 | they 're good for patronage , they encourage people who have money to er , to put it into the arts , they 're they promote stability and they they save us from a dictatorship , is that it ? |
| 30 | Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles . |