Example sentences of "[prep] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We left in a strange , silent huff , the women running after us into the street and trying to pull us back inside . |
| 2 | It 's a factual mistake , of course , because er , there are n't in fact deities looking after us in the way there were parents in , in childhood . |
| 3 | Elinor said , pointing to a figure marching towards us along the riverside . |
| 4 | Congressman Long thinks to give us alms , kicked towards us with the dirty soles of his shoes , so that the Salvadorean people , on their bended knees , lick them up from the ground with their tongues . |
| 5 | Then he was smiling , coming towards us with the charm turned on . |
| 6 | He moved towards us across the road . |
| 7 | As he did this a Maltese feller started striding slowly but purposefully towards us from the back of the club . |
| 8 | There were some hill-walkers with ice-axes coming towards us from the other side of the hill , and I was trying to look as though I meant to come hill-walking dressed like a hairdresser 's receptionist . |
| 9 | It came rolling towards us from the west . |
| 10 | The island was spread in front of me , outrigger canoes paddling towards us from the silver beaches lined with tall , bending palm trees and feathery casuarinas , while , behind , the green volcanic mountains rose until they seemed to meet the sky . |
| 11 | I date the present coldness of Turkey towards us from the expulsion of the Axis from North Africa . |
| 12 | ‘ Since Patsy 's murder there has been a sea change in attitude towards us by the military , ’ said Alec , a 45-year-old Catholic who has worked for the MoD since before the Troubles . |
| 13 | Below us in the village square Kalchu had pegged out his backstrap loom and was weaving a length of grey goat's-hair cloth to make a rug . |
| 14 | I proposed that we fish the same swim , which was large enough to accommodate both of us without the risk of crossed lines . |
| 15 | Karen did , and I could quite understand her apprehension at the prospect of trying to maintain her rigid code of etiquette beneath the hot southern sun , in a festive holiday atmosphere , with both of us under the same roof twenty-four hours a day . |
| 16 | In consideration of your agreeing to make an offer , on behalf of our customer , [ client name ] for the whole of the issued share capital of a company known to both of us under the code name [ ] ' , we , [ name of Bank ] London Branch , [ address of Bank ] , hereby guarantee that our customer , [ client name ] have available to them funds up to a total amount of £ [ ] . |
| 17 | Things have not been quite the same between the two of us since the business with the vacuum cleaner in the cellar . |
| 18 | There were seven of us on the basic course , but Duncan and Lachlan , a divemaster , took us out in two groups . |
| 19 | Those of us on the receiving end know that there is a real financial crisis . |
| 20 | There were six of us on the course , all aiming to get the RYA ( Royal Yachting Association ) Level 1 Certificate . |
| 21 | Then one day all of us on the maintenance crew were watching a blue movie . |
| 22 | He had already heard of us on the river grapevine , about our journey upriver with Muhammad and Milhaez and Romany . |
| 23 | There are four of us on the full-time staff and four trainees . |
| 24 | He said : ‘ But this case will be solved , all of us on the investigating team feel certain of that . |
| 25 | In front of us on the path we heard scream after scream from Sir Henry , and the deep voice of the hound . |
| 26 | There were 12 of us on the boat and three full time crew . |
| 27 | That can be illustrated by a complete lack of information in front of us on the that that actually applies any consistency to er the the environmental discount applying in different parts of the county . |
| 28 | There may be just one or two of us on the list who are still dreaming of Bremner , Giles & E Gray as a midfield trio . |
| 29 | Im sure i speak for the rest of us on the list , but Id like to thank halvard for all this gossip/info from Norway etc . |
| 30 | But for now , from all of us on the lunchtime team , good afternoon . |