Example sentences of "[noun pl] [verb] [pron] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think my guards bribed him to let us pass . |
| 2 | Dr Jaffery 's nieces begged him to tell us one of his Mullah Nasir-ud-Din stories and eventually he obliged . |
| 3 | We buy a nice little time manager thing , with little pink elephants in it , and goodness knows what , and we spend eight hundred pounds to get something to tell us how to time manage , and you really get enthusiastic about this for three months , and then you put it in the drawer and go back to your diary . |
| 4 | If we look at the reasons why kin shared homes with each other in the past , three themes emerge which help us further to understand why there have been fluctuations in co-residence . |
| 5 | Ever since it was revealed that Grant has a boat I have been playing mind games to get him to invite us . |
| 6 | What lessons does it teach us ? |
| 7 | The past often appears ideal in retrospect , yet if one looks at it closely it reveals itself as a dangerous place where we laid mines to trap others , and others laid them to trap us . |
| 8 | It 's not been for us to tell people what they should or should n't eat or do anything with , because the , in , in one respect that 's a nann nannying attitude from er , whether it 's the legislators saying we 're not going to approve the right legislation so that you have that information , but on the other hand by manufacturers and others saying you trust us . |
| 9 | What kind of drug-crazed morons do you take us for , Brian ? |
| 10 | In 1980 a series of events occurred which forced us to look at ourselves in a new and harsh light . |