Example sentences of "[verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre . |
| 2 | We were very English and terribly sorry , and he let us go without a ticket . |
| 3 | And he let us climb to the top deck of the car , with a much better view of the route , this being usually reserved for smokers . |
| 4 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 5 | When the Countess saw that Emily was going to be good for nothing , she let us have this house , as I say — she was Scottish , and had property here that was mostly sold after she died . |
| 6 | She let us have two rooms but there was no visible staff , and the dining-room was closed : we ate , that evening , in a shabby bar in the middle of the town . |
| 7 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 8 | He let us muck around but we had to get the work in at the end of the week . ’ |
| 9 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 10 | B but Terry let us look at the |
| 11 | In the end , when he saw the red crosses , he let us go . |
| 12 | He let us all go to the burial . |
| 13 | Because there 's always been an opport , I mean even if your sort of poor , there 's always the opportunity , I mean I learnt to drive and then the driving instructor erm , lived next door to my mother saying , it , at the time it should of been three pound and erm , he let us have it for two pound |
| 14 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 15 | He let us off he said you two are supposed to get a late mark but I 'll let you off this time three and we 've got a detention . |
| 16 | So I said Daryll let us borrow your phone ? |
| 17 | Michael Cross , speaking on behalf of Mr Bond , who bought the picture at Sotheby 's in 1987 , confirmed to The Independent that ‘ Sotheby 's approached us and offered us a loan facility against the picture . ’ |
| 18 | Shortly after the formation of Apple Films ( a subsidiary of the Beatles ' Apple Corps Ltd ) , Ringo and his associate Hilary Gerard had approached us to help them make a film about Arthurian legends and " Magical Britain " . |
| 19 | Liverpool University has not approached us regarding flood defence assessment . ’ |
| 20 | I 'm afraid you have n't caught us at our best . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's caught us all napping . |
| 22 | Suddenly I was frightened because he had once caught us playing in the churchyard and had shouted at us and chased us out . |
| 23 | ‘ Caught us napping , you did , ’ laughed the fourth . |
| 24 | When we eventually came out , when the sirens er all clear went we came out look at that there in the A R P warden 's er in the A R P's pavilion , the cricket pavilion there was a skylight there was no blackout to it was there beacon of light the A R P had caught us |
| 25 | You 've caught us at kind of a low point . ’ |
| 26 | PLAYER : ( Acknowledging the description with a sweep of his hat , bowing : sadly ) You should have caught us in better times . |
| 27 | He said hardly anything , I knew he really did n't want to be with us ( with Caroline ) but he 'd caught us up ; he ca n't have spotted from behind who we were , he was obviously going the same way . |
| 28 | Peter Mueller 's experience brought him no great success , either racing or on the French roads ; the new roundabout in Bourg St Maurice , on the road to Val d'Isere , had nearly caught us out , and later we heard that Mueller had crashed and written off his car . |
| 29 | But he 'd have called the police anyway and they might really have caught us at it . |
| 30 | ‘ They 'll signal us to turn aside , ’ Morton observed . |