Example sentences of "[vb past] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre . |
| 2 | We were very English and terribly sorry , and he let us go without a ticket . |
| 3 | And he let us climb to the top deck of the car , with a much better view of the route , this being usually reserved for smokers . |
| 4 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 5 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 6 | She let us have two rooms but there was no visible staff , and the dining-room was closed : we ate , that evening , in a shabby bar in the middle of the town . |
| 7 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 8 | He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’ |
| 9 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 10 | B but Terry let us look at the |
| 11 | In the end , when he saw the red crosses , he let us go . |
| 12 | He let us all go to the burial . |
| 13 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 14 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 15 | He let us off he said you two are supposed to get a late mark but I 'll let you off this time three and we 've got a detention . |
| 16 | So I said Daryll let us borrow your phone ? |
| 17 | That blessed us with the vision faith had won , |
| 18 | As so often in the past , Our Lady blessed us with fine weather so that were able to hold our group procession on Wednesday morning , carrying her statue along the holy mile to the Shrine , singing hymns and reciting the Rosary . |
| 19 | The man who so bewitched us . |
| 20 | ‘ She bewitched us . ’ |
| 21 | Suddenly there was a flash of lightning and a roll of thunder and the heavens burst sending us scuttling into the woods for shelter , but it was n't long before the rain got through and drenched us with miniature Niagaras that came cascading down from the broad leaves . |
| 22 | A short downpour drenched us , but it lasted only a few minutes . |
| 23 | Mr Fuller said : ‘ Our club only heard from him when we had discos in the club house and he phoned us to keep the noise down . ’ |
| 24 | This is three elements out of about nine or ten , now if they could be persuaded that if people phoned us up and said blah blah blah I want to learn this we could say well Telford will let you do this one unit of the course , they learn the one unit of the course , they say right I 'd now like to learn about let's say photography and we find out that Queen Margaret 's College in their course have an element on photography so we point the student in that direction and then they do this hold on a second |
| 25 | Er , no Gillian phoned us . |
| 26 | Well he 's alright like , but er phoned us yesterday , I wrote it down what he told us in the book , in there , cos it 's confidential between him and the Co-op , but |
| 27 | When dad phoned us when I was down there he says , When you come back you can get rid of that acce you can get back to your own accent . |
| 28 | We managed to do it and after that we had to get the money from people who sponsored us . |
| 29 | ‘ But there will be , hopefully , a video and an exhibition when we come back so that the people who sponsored us will at least have their names mentioned . ’ |
| 30 | The government would save so much money in the long run if they built us all homes instead of putting us up in this dump ; it 's ridiculous . ’ |