Example sentences of "[to-vb] us of " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was that if we did n't take part in the inquiry , then it would be easy for the pro-nuclear lobby to accuse us of ignoring democracy , throwing up the chance to have our say , implying that our case was too weak to risk exposure . |
| 2 | To accuse us of thinking we are the only ones interested in peace is to reiterate mindlessly a routine anti-CND slogan . |
| 3 | For various reasons the main one of which was a lack of understanding of our problems , our local administration were often unsympathetic and went so far as to accuse us of non co-operation at times , especially in the matter of rest days . |
| 4 | ‘ To accuse us of letting the dog die — that 's plain wicked ! ’ |
| 5 | We have the kitchen middens to inform us about the former and the dolmens and passage graves — both resting places and scenes of ancestor worship — to inform us of the latter . |
| 6 | To inform us of your choice , please detach one of the stamps from the panel and affix in the space provided on your Entry Bond . |
| 7 | To inform us of your choice , please detach one of the stamps from the attached panel and affix it to the space provided on your ULTIMATE ENTRY BOND |
| 8 | From time to time we have copies of WWF News and other member communications returned to us because people have moved house and forgotten to inform us of their new address . |
| 9 | It was agreed that the Secretary of the Party would ask the Party to inform us of any awards , plaques etcetera , that could be presented to recognize his length of membership . |
| 10 | Let's hope the pessimism of the last edition is firmly left behind — perhaps with Edward Pearce — and that thinkers like Stuart Hall spend less time applauding the Tories and much more time helping to rid us of what he calls this ‘ nightmare ’ . |
| 11 | Next door 's dog jumps our fence and has dug under our sheds , chewing the wood away in her effort to rid us of rabbits ( no complaints , we love the dog ) . |
| 12 | In the following year , addressing the Royal United Services Institute , he was to be found covering his tracks across the same ground : ‘ They accept us now ; they used to suspect us of being a trap to catch boys for the Army … |
| 13 | During this time , our camp was visited by the secretary of the local Communist party , who seemed to suspect us of being illegal collectors of mumiya , semi-fossilised pika droppings thought to have medicinal properties . |
| 14 | on earth , to give us of God 's love . |
| 15 | This motion condemns rise in unemployment caused by the incompetent handling of the Tory government 's economic policies and I ask for support of the T U C campaigns for the unemployed , but I would beg really that when we do campaign , the T U C gives us more than two days to notify us of rallies and meetings . |
| 16 | The Festival of Britain sought to persuade us of the imminence of a better and less contorted world . |
| 17 | There is something spiritually uplifting about the continued failure of these professional advocates to persuade us of their own worth . |
| 18 | That is the old view that a lot of the older generation of conservative German historians have been trying to persuade us of . |
| 19 | 25th Of May are graduates of the EMF school of exaggerated jumping about onstage and seem desperate to convince us of their streetwise-raver-hardcore-homeboy credentials . |
| 20 | Milton 's task , of course , is to convince us of the sin involved . |
| 21 | Just to convince us that all these things that he tells us about are somehow present , to convince us of the heinousness of what he 's done . |
| 22 | You are strictly to forbid them to deprive us of anything which ought of right to belong to us . |
| 23 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 24 | Here and there Pippo dropped a bomb , but hardly ever on a village ; he came out of sheer perversity , we felt , just to rob us of our sleep . |
| 25 | It is also supposed to have a therapeutic effect of a ‘ brutal , surgical ’ separation of unconscious and rational convictions in order ‘ to cure us of our images or at least to limit their power ’ . |
| 26 | The names of Robert Graves , W.H. Auden , and Christopher Isherwood may serve to remind us of English writers who seem to have reached the same dismaying conclusion over the years since . |
| 27 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 28 | ‘ I 'm proud that this will be done , not only in Father 's memory but to remind us of how the stories came to be . ’ |
| 29 | Apart from some of the actual buildings , little remains in the way of water wheels and machinery , to remind us of what was clearly once an important chain of mills which played an important role in the development of Cheltenham . |
| 30 | His description of the galleries of Dent on either side of the narrow street is all that is left to remind us of their undoubted presence , ‘ I regret the loss of the grotesque and rude but picturesque old galleries , which once gave character to the streets ; and in some parts of them almost shut out the sight of the sky from those who travelled along the pavement . |