Example sentences of "they [verb] us [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 4 | They saw us as a natural choice to work with . |
| 5 | ’ So they kept us in a few days . |
| 6 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 7 | In their ‘ rightness ’ they leave us with a profound sense of ‘ wrongness ’ which many of us store to considerable effect , decades later . |
| 8 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 9 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |