Example sentences of "[art] [noun] [vb past] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | The response astounded us and delighted Durham County Cricket Club , who are backing the tournament . |
| 2 | ‘ But all the experts told us to stay at Bart 's . |
| 3 | When several of us got down there the CO informed us that we had to fly down the Gulf to look for an Imperial Airways airliner , one of those Armstrong Whitworth Argosys which was named City of Glasgow , and had been overdue for sometime . |
| 4 | Our carpenter is aboard the Angelina , building a cradle for the bomb according to the specifications the Pentagon gave us . |
| 5 | Measurements of bismuth in serum samples during the trial enabled us to monitor whether significant accumulation occurred . |
| 6 | The bridge , as the mannikin told us , was a favourite place for people to commit suicide . |
| 7 | The following morning my crew and I were up at 4 am when the tide lifted us . |
| 8 | From measurements of pressure and CSA the technique allowed us to derive several biomechanical parameters . |
| 9 | None of this would be worth remark if the narrative carried us along by virtue of its own strength , but it hardly does . |
| 10 | ‘ After the birth Tony and I both felt very shaky and the midwife got us some tea right away , while they were tidying me up , just to calm us down . |
| 11 | In the course of dealing with those who demanded excessively high wages or who broke their contracts , the courts provided us with a great deal of evidence about wage rates , and continuity and frequency of employment . |
| 12 | We said he was stronger than he looked , but the vet turned us away and told us to bring him back when he was bigger . |
| 13 | The Germans left us to pull the last rope down and headed off without us , leaving us temporarily disenchanted with international fraternity . |
| 14 | I told him about our own lack of any real bomber force until the Germans made us build one . |
| 15 | Suppose we went for this drink and the Hobbs greeted us ? |
| 16 | ‘ The decision worried us , of course , but we let it go . |
| 17 | Someone claiming to be in the know told us the other day that the reason DEC president Robert Palmer never showed up at that mammoth Unix strategy briefing session the company put the press and analyst corp through back in February was that he saw the rehearsals and did n't want to be associated with it . |
| 18 | The Times caressed us with recondite information : no Pakistani batsman had made a century at Headingley ; Pakistan bowled their 100th no-ball in the series ( Wasim Akram , not out 63 ) . |
| 19 | For instance , The Times informed us that the ‘ unmarried office manager … kept her lunchtime appointment to have a contraceptive coil fitted ’ ( our emphasis ) . |
| 20 | Bottles of boiling water from the kitchen kept us warm at night and provided sterile drinking water for the next day . |
| 21 | In the evenings the merchants invited us to join them as they sat chatting on their cots in the middle of the courtyard . |
| 22 | The crowd fell silent as the starter called us to our blocks . |
| 23 | ‘ The recession gave us a window of opportunity , ’ he said at the time . |
| 24 | But the recession hit us badly . |
| 25 | It 's time , and the baker brought us a nice treat this morning . ’ |
| 26 | Soon afterwards we were able to use real rifles , for the authorities made us members of the ‘ Universal Training ’ organization , our criminal past being deliberately overlooked . |
| 27 | The spectacle of the toiling animal and the harrowing sound of the breathing absorbed us utterly . |
| 28 | The driver saw us and was stopping . |
| 29 | We stopped outside the church door and the driver handed us down . |
| 30 | The starships passed us by . |