Example sentences of "[to-vb] we [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ But Teams who used to come here expecting to win are happy to contain us these days , and that 's a huge compliment to Norwich . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ That dopey mare left about five hours ago to find us some transport so we could all go into Ipswich and sign on . |
| 3 | Wanting to be beautiful , wanting people to find us attractive , is a desire which is planted in girls at a very early age . |
| 4 | The trading conditions for the Group 's business will continue to be just as difficult in the coming year as they were in 1992 , and will continue to provide us all with significant challenges and problems . |
| 5 | For the reasons specified above , the 50 schools sampled were asked to provide us both with their overall attendance rate and the numbers of pupils absent for a specific week in June and again for a specific week in November . |
| 6 | Trying to pull us both up short she started on a lecture on the foetal damage caused by nicotine , but neither of us was listening ; we were looking at a memory . |
| 7 | And I 'm putting this forward as something to encourage us all , because sometimes we ca n't be articulate , sometimes we ca n't look beautiful , most of the times you ca n't look beautiful , but we can all think of ways of creating an interesting story . |
| 8 | ‘ As I 've said before , it 's not really realistic to expect us to win the league but the others have to try to catch us first . |
| 9 | ‘ He 's got to catch us first ! ’ |
| 10 | Some reports claimed that the allegations ( described as " totally groundless " by the Chinese Foreign Ministry ) were certain to increase US congressional pressure on President Bush not to renew China 's most favoured nation trading status . |
| 11 | The pistol packing cop returns to escort us all to the Pathe News Theatre . |
| 12 | The Labour Party , or its thinking wing , is polishing its credentials so remarkably that Mr Smith 's team will look quite different when they get to meet us all again in the polling booth . |
| 13 | Then they got really crazy and they were trying to get David 's movie camera and to arrest us all . |
| 14 | The local papers got wind in advance of what was happening and I was petrified that the police would come bursting in to arrest us all . |
| 15 | In Selfoss the assistant in the chemist 's tries to sell us surgical spirit when we ask for meths and there is a pantomime while Tony explains to her , in best sign language , that what he wants is spirit for a Trangia . |
| 16 | Prime Minister Chung announced on Dec. 11 that all US atomic weapons had been removed from South Korean soil , and offered to open US military bases to inspection by the North on condition that the North permitted simultaneous inspection of its own nuclear facilities . |
| 17 | Clay declared that Aunt Dottie ‘ was like to feed us all to death with this amount of food . ’ |
| 18 | Investigations into the activities of this particular gang had been carried out over a very long period and they had been kept under constant surveillance by our officers who were thus able to feed us all the necessary information towards a successful interception . |
| 19 | Come on , if she is going to feed us this crud , she could at least get her research right . |
| 20 | Christ entered into humanity to defeat the Dark Power that oppressed us and to set us free from the corruption within . |
| 21 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 22 | It was great and they did not seem to cause us many problems . |
| 23 | The impact on the Germans was immediate ; from this moment , said the Reichs Archives , ‘ began the flanking fire on the ravines and roads north of Douaumont that was to cause us such severe casualties . ’ |
| 24 | Patiently , I went through the same arguments that I 'd used with Mazzin himself , emphasizing that we did n't want any trouble but would n't tolerate abuse , and that we felt Islamic Jihad did n't want to cause us unnecessary distress . |
| 25 | he walks past there , if he really wanted to bust us that bad he 'd probably just come up and say right |
| 26 | The moment we walk out into the sun to play we all break out into a heavy sweat . |
| 27 | Israel , which was hoping to win US congressional approval during 1991 for loans worth some US$10,000 million , had also been actively seeking contributions from Germany . |
| 28 | There are quite a few experienced players and there 's enough dedication to win us some matches . |
| 29 | The ‘ swing ’ from Labour to Liberal Democrat was 6.4pc , enough to win us both seats in the Willington West ward . |
| 30 | ‘ To play us such a trick ; |