Example sentences of "us at the " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was cooler and grey , and a brisk sou'wester spiked with a salty drizzle met us at the crag . |
| 2 | ‘ Ron is the right man for us at the moment , ’ Caisley said . |
| 3 | Wood ladders greeted us at the most difficult places across the stream . |
| 4 | My husband had come to collect us at the airport and we came back here in a minicar . |
| 5 | I 'd heard the voice of an angel — and when a meeting was eventually arranged between David and myself , through NEMS ' who were handling both of us at the time , I expected a very pimply youth to be standing there . |
| 6 | But after the marriage and the party , when it was time , the brougham was already waiting for us at the front door , I could n't bear to leave . |
| 7 | As the years have passed , he 's started waiting for us at the door on visitors ' days . |
| 8 | This is not a book about the experience of watching them , a collection of weird scenes inside the cinema : ‘ We were chewing the fat , telling stories about peculiar things that had happened to us at the cinema , trying to top each other . |
| 9 | Sir , May I express through your columns Sends a Cow 's gratitude to the many people in our beleaguered industry who generously supported us at the Royal Show this year . |
| 10 | As he began to speak a young boy ran straight through a plate glass window behind us at the back of the church . |
| 11 | Upson would not normally run the winner again , but as he says , ‘ things are not exactly normal with us at the moment . |
| 12 | Gordon Pill , the farmer , met us at the bottom of the hill . |
| 13 | If this was true for Stendhal at the beginning of the 19th century , it remains so for increasing numbers of us at the end of the 20th . |
| 14 | People certainly built last year who first saw us at the Ideal Homes Exhibition in 1984 and 1985 . |
| 15 | You can either join us at the relevant Channel port or take advantage of our coach service operating from 49 departure points throughout the U.K. We take the cross-Channel ferry and motor down to the south of France or Costa Brava , in style . |
| 16 | eat the right amount of energy ( calories ) to keep us at the right weight |
| 17 | Senior brother , John Isbister , smiling brightly , met us at the pier . |
| 18 | He got one back on us at the 15th to put him three shots behind again , so the 17th was going to be a crucial hole . |
| 19 | ‘ I think they were quite serious about leaving us at the time and thought they would get an objective opinion from Langford . |
| 20 | I went calmly enough , but there must have been a suspicion of the trepidation that inevitably invests us at the sight of a hospital and the thought of entering it . |
| 21 | If you can help us , in whatever way , please contact us at the address overleaf . |
| 22 | Frequently they would meet us at the Sunday-school gate , and we would go for a walk before tea . |
| 23 | Although my household and ARP duties did not allow of a visit to the Western hospital some folk came to see us at the main post , and laugh at the fact that the Steward of the hospital had had to send the last of his well-trained clerks to Egypt to help count the number of prisoners and try to get the provision for them in some sort of order . |
| 24 | Billy refused to allow this to affect his performances in the Palace goal and he never played better than in his last two League games for us at the end of the 1931–32 season . |
| 25 | After this he was a little unlucky with injuries and left us at the end of 1935–36 , having served honourably and well . |
| 26 | The Palace was Whibley 's only League club and , when he left us at the end of 1922–23 , he returned to his home town to play for Sittingbourne . |
| 27 | Our competitors who use their better provision of education to beat us at the economic game — show us how a slender force of educated human resources , our current situation , is no basis for technical expertise in volume , for high intellect in commerce , for leadership quality in management , or for any other human component of economic success . |
| 28 | 97 Squadron of Lancasters left us at the end of April to return to Coningsby in Lincolnshire , from whence they had come , and with the loss of life drastically cut down , some of the pressure and sadness lifted , to be replaced by pressure of a different kind . |
| 29 | My maternal grandmother was living with us at the time , it having been decided that her flat in Highgate should be closed down for the duration of the war , and she circulated between the homes of her son and three daughters so that she could be looked after . |
| 30 | As Bromberg tells us at the beginning of her excellent mixture of history of science and politics , ‘ The US government has supported a research programme in fusion energy since 1951 , and in the 30 years through 1980 it has expended more than $2 billion . |