Example sentences of "they [verb] us [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But erm I I think some of them let us down a bit . |
| 2 | Sgt Steve Raw said : ‘ We would like to hear from this man but also from anyone who knows anything about the incident and ask them to contact us on . ’ |
| 3 | I do n't remember how they got us out of the apartment , but I do remember that we stopped somewhere before leaving Beirut where we were taped up and transferred to a false-bottomed truck . |
| 4 | They got us off and the bus disappeared , but there was still a reason why we could not board — they never let on what it was — — and we stood on the tarmac for a long time before being herded to the back entrance . |
| 5 | They passed us out of it . ’ |
| 6 | They led us up a series of side streets to a post office near the station . |
| 7 | Well I think the daft I say they say they pick us up but why I do n't know . |
| 8 | They want us in . |
| 9 | So they moved us out into a hotel . |
| 10 | Do they know us up there then ? |
| 11 | They let us off after our three Santa Clausesses mobbed them and asked to play with the red furry pandas they had clipped to the aerials of their radios , on condition we played ‘ Saints ’ until out of sight . |
| 12 | ‘ They let us down . ’ |
| 13 | They let us down . |
| 14 | If we say are providing a band for dancing , we are liable if they let us down . |
| 15 | Sometimes , if the screws are happy , they let us out for a while , and sometimes we have exercise after dinner . |
| 16 | They put us back into a van and let us out in the street . |
| 17 | Probably some assembly rooms , that 's what they put us in . |
| 18 | I refused to go in my cell and they put us down the block . |
| 19 | Then another time I smashed my cell up and slashed my arms and that , because I did n't get any letters or anything like that , so one of the screws came in and they put us down the block . |
| 20 | It was before I had the bairn , and I would n't go and they put us down the block for being cheeky . |
| 21 | I just cracked up , and they put us down the block . |
| 22 | But it was the scabs er that well they put us down to start with , and then the was picket line started cracking up was the these lads not prepared to do it . |
| 23 | There are some good teachers , but for most it is a case of ‘ We piss them off and they piss us off . ’ |
| 24 | I said if you 're going to court Neil and if that ai n't paid , I said there 's Beth can manage they and they paid us out . |
| 25 | Indeed , the positive emotions are frequently more threatening than the negative ones because they open us up to others , and they allow us to become lost in causes greater than ourselves . |
| 26 | I mean all the Scottish and the Welsh , I always remember when when erm when the first houses , when we lived , when I lived with me mother , and in that house we lived in was a big estate erm near us and erm ever such a lot of Welsh people lived there and , I do n't know who it was , somebody wanted a place , could n't get anywhere and my mother went up there with you let all the Welsh people come here he s she said they run us down and that was years and years ago she said , nearly everybody on that estate 's Welsh ourselves . |
| 27 | That 's what I say , there 'll always be , they run us down like mad and and yet they all come here . |
| 28 | They threw us out at four o'clock and in all that time I had n't said a word , just listened . |
| 29 | They threw us out in the end , they 're not very patient these people … ’ |
| 30 | They threw us out of China before we got to Tibet . ’ |