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The phrase "they instructed us" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to someone giving directions or guidance to a group, typically in a formal or educational context. Example: "During the meeting, they instructed us on the new procedures we need to follow."
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"A lot of the national directives they instructed us to put in place would stay.
"When some R.S.S. activists came home, they instructed us to remove our footwear outside the house," he said.
In Akron "all the most important, most endangered buildings, they instructed us not to list," he said.
They wore white lab coats and carried clipboards as they instructed us to examine poems by William Carlos Williams as if they were patients in need of care.
Actually when I worked at a department store as a teenager they instructed us to make an announcement to security if two or three black males came in together.
We learned through Dr. King to refer to our darker-skinned friends as Negro; and then as they grew Afros and donned dashikis, they instructed us to call them Black.
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According to Belk and Pollay, "not only do [advertisements] show us the ideal life, they instruct us [on] how to live".
"There's no question in my mind the players are unified, that if this deal and this is the best deal they can get, they've instructed us that they're prepared to sit out," he said.
Not content with going from Lee Trevino to Liberace inside three minutes (the strict time limit for all Eurovision songs), they also instructed us to "Get up and dance to our Eastern European kinda funk!" How sad that "kinda" sounds to wiser ears.
(FGD 2, primiparous women) While pregnant a woman can encounter several problems, this is why they (nurses) have instructed us to come for monthly check ups for some incurable diseases like HIV … They will counsel on what pregnant women should do to avoid infecting the unborn babies.
While pregnant a woman can encounter several problems, this is why they (nurses) have instructed us to come for monthly check ups for some incurable diseases like HIV … They will counsel on what pregnant women should do to avoid infecting the unborn babies.
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