Example sentences of "[noun pl] and [pron] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | you know , where I belong , I , I do n't quite honestly do n't really like Harlow New Town any more , I al I did up until about oh eight or nine years ago I thought it was a great place and all , all the cockneys that said , you know , oh I 'd love to be back in London , I thought they were barmy , you know to live in London the di the difference is , I mean my husband 's a cockney and he would n't , would never , well now he would never go back to London you know , it 's a dump , he , he likes Harlow , but er I think I do n't like it now because it 's expanded so much , you know when we , when we were first here , mind you when we first moved in it was ever so difficult for us kids because , there , there was the Old Town kids versus the New Town kids and they hated us , they really |
| 2 | ‘ The social worker at the hospital — she was marvellous — she put us in touch with a charity that keeps a list of all these types of Homes and she sent us a list and this one was more or less on our doorstep . |
| 3 | We were all looking for some direction in our lives and they gave us that direction . |
| 4 | We can get down on the high street any of these times and it drops us back up here . |
| 5 | ‘ It was interesting to take on these different values and it gave us a new perspective . ’ |
| 6 | They enabled the sisters to honour their own privacy needs and they gave us a clear sense of personal identity . |
| 7 | I have been going out with my girlfriend for three years and she wants us to get married but I 'm not so sure ! |
| 8 | Jesus Christ was big himself , he came into the world to do big things and he calls us to do big things . |
| 9 | In 1984 , ERA became members of the Technical Services Agency ( TSA ) , a user-controlled community technical aid centre who carried out the in-depth survey of our flats and who issued us with a long detailed report . |
| 10 | In section 6.4 , we develop a simple model which draws on aspects of both sets of theories and which enables us to develop a link between the inflation rate and the unemployment percentage ( the inflation-unemployment curve ) . |
| 11 | Denis and Astrid met us at Boston airport , waving large federal flags and they transported us to Astrid 's parents ' home in Becket , Massachusetts . |
| 12 | are our best friends and they wish us well , |
| 13 | Before leaving him , we shook hands and he gave us each a yellow , fine-pointed Biro pen with which he was so fond of writing : a signal and a last gesture of kindness . |
| 14 | We left them some cigarettes and they sent us on our way . |
| 15 | The crash was heard by a hill walker who phoned the police and they called us . |
| 16 | You saw the men and you told us whose men they were . |
| 17 | But we as crime prevention officers regularly meet with erm the newspaper people to say can you make sure your staff push them through the letter boxes and they assure us that the er , the next thing on their list to prioritize but it does n't happen . |
| 18 | Our objective in this section , therefore is to develop a simple labour-market model which draws on aspects of all three approaches and which enables us to construct a link between the unemployment percentage and the rate of national income . |
| 19 | We called up all the record companies to see shows and they let us go and see all the shows because we had American accents and we were crazy . |
| 20 | We learn why we are frightened by wasps and it makes us more frightened . |
| 21 | Er we 've got a little few earmarked funds left over like for instance , Theakston 's Brewery gave us the barrels and they gave us two and a half thousand pounds . |
| 22 | Newer approaches to history can give accounts which do not have landmark events and which tell us about different aspects of the past , such as social conditions . |
| 23 | Super scrolls and he told us where you get them . |
| 24 | We know a lot of the regulars and they know us , so they play a game with the store detectives . |