Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And when when he gets to know us a bit better we got quite a welcome tonight . |
| 2 | It 's going to pull us a little bit closer to the rest of the pack but we have still got a good squad . ’ |
| 3 | However we have always found that most seamen are good natured fellows , and they seemed to bear us no malice . |
| 4 | If , furthermore , you wished to sell us a narrow strip of your garden to allow the shelter to be set back a little from the pavement , we could consider providing a fence along your full frontage as part of the accommodation works . |
| 5 | think what he wants to do is he wanted to sell us a new one |
| 6 | While the rest of the card world attempts to move on by using humour or Snoopy dogs to sell us the festive season , charity Christmas cards remain as old-fashioned , tedious and unimaginative as they have always been . |
| 7 | We had a fast and uneventful run to Stornoway where the new propeller was fitted but , to my horror , in the haste to re-launch us the same prop . |
| 8 | Turn to page 183 and fill in the couple to reach us no later than December 22 . |
| 9 | Halley 's comet has an eccentricity of about 0.9675 permitting it to visit us every 76 years . |
| 10 | ‘ It 'ud do to buy us a few drinks with , Sam , ’ a woman called from the far end of the smoke-blackened room . |
| 11 | Perhaps you 'd like to buy us a drink … ’ |
| 12 | And they are , they are interested in cyclists but from what I could make out reading this they 're not really going to help us a great deal . |
| 13 | And to put this activity into some sort of financial context , we have to help us a budget of roughly half a million pounds . |
| 14 | Thomas Mayer and his son , Thomas Walton Mayer of Newcastle-under-Lyme , sent to every veterinary surgeon in the United Kingdom the draft of a memorial addressed to the governors of the London College , with the ultimate objective of gaining a Charter of Incorporation ‘ to protect us from illiterate and uneducated men , and to afford us the same privileges and exemptions which other professional bodies possess ’ . |
| 15 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 16 | Nero sends his luv , you know he 's coming over here to give us a turn this winter . |
| 17 | Do you want to give us a hand , lad ? ’ |
| 18 | ‘ And it would be nice , ’ she added slowly , ‘ if someone was to give us a bit reading . ’ |
| 19 | So we did n't have to go all the way to Lime Street , Liverpool , Chapman , with his characteristic attention to such details , had arranged for the train to make a special stop at Edgehill Station , to give us a better chance of getting home the same night . |
| 20 | In between the Players played — to give us a chance to get out breaths back . |
| 21 | I wish we had sand to give us a grip . ’ |
| 22 | Fortunately the visibility was excellent , and so we could fly at 3,000 feet above the terrain to give us a larger cone of vision as well as options in the event of engine failure . |
| 23 | Our Higher Self is eager to give us a life full of love , joy , success and abundance ; but it will not do so until we say ‘ Yes ’ , and we keep turning our backs on it . |
| 24 | ‘ Mr Oakley tells me that you 're going to give us a hand . |
| 25 | In two days we reached Tezpur , and again found kind ladies from the tea estates waiting to give us a meal and a bath — bliss indeed ! |
| 26 | ‘ I said when we arrived two weeks ago that by the time it came to this Test you would have to give us a 50–50 chance because this is a one-off game , not part of a Test series . |
| 27 | But then I do n't suppose it 'll matter much with twenty of us in there ; our combined breaths 'll be enough to give us a steam bath . |
| 28 | He went in and fed them for us sometimes , to give us a break , and would phone us up if he thought there were any difficulties . |
| 29 | Mind you , I 'm not saying as that 's what she 'll get for the asking , and I 'm not saying there 's not many a man as 'll hand over his pay-packet unopened , but there 's enough of the other sort to give us a bit of a breather Thursdays . ’ |
| 30 | It had to change to give us a chance to advance . |