Example sentences of "[vb infin] us [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'll signal us to turn aside , ’ Morton observed . |
| 2 | I guess he did n't trust us to let him do it from the nick . |
| 3 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we saw in the town meetings , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them together saying we want our future back . |
| 4 | ‘ You can trust us to wake up every day remembering the people we saw in the bus trips , the people we touched at the rallies , the people who had never voted before , the people who had n't voted in 20 years , the people who 'd never voted for a Democrat , the people who had given up hope , all of them saying we want our future back . ’ |
| 5 | She greeted us with a cheerful smile , and whereas we had been anxious to avoid her for fear she should forbid us to bring our tree into the house , she astonished us by saying : " Hullo , dearies . |
| 6 | What is distinct to us or to church work from the assumptions of central Government where funding might direct us to exclude what we want to do and to be a youth service which would deliver a prescribed curriculum . |
| 7 | Christian Aid 's emphasis on strengthening the poor might direct us to look first at supporting people at the base ‘ doing theology ’ , rather than year-long academic retreats . |
| 8 | Ryle points out that in being impressed by the certainty of the seen and the known , one is assuming that seeing and knowing are analogous with looking and thinking , so that it becomes a problem how they escape the fallibility of these operations ; he invites us to shift ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to the category of achievement verbs such as ‘ find ’ and ‘ cure ’ , which are related to ‘ seek ‘ and ‘ treat ’ as ‘ see ’ and ‘ know ’ to ‘ look ’ and ‘ think ’ , but do not tempt us to suppose that there are infallible methods of discovering lost articles or restoring to health . |
| 9 | Physics is the study of simple things that do not tempt us to invoke design . |
| 10 | What some writers now term the ‘ widening gap ’ between the rich and the poor , both within countries and between the First and the Third Worlds , might tempt us to subscribe pessimistically to the view that the countries of the Third World are passive victims of the exercise of First World hegemon countries ' power . |
| 11 | Meanwhile it would profit us to seem to change our plans . |
| 12 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 13 | What you gon na give us to take us off that ? |
| 14 | Whenever we spoke about haircuts or what clothes they 'd give us to go home in , Anderson would say , ‘ I do n't care what I look like , I 'll go out stark naked , I just want to leave . ’ |
| 15 | I ca n't tell you how much pleasure it would give us to make them eat their words . |
| 16 | However , policies of positive integration such as the CAP , which impinge upon trading relationships , can blur the CU issue and can incline us to exclude a particular class of trade . |
| 17 | McHale said : ‘ You 'd think that Chesterfield have to come here and beat us to keep alive their chances of reaching the playoffs . ’ |
| 18 | We do not have the information today which would entitle us to draw any conclusions of that kind . |
| 19 | You 'd expect us to employ a clerk to do that . |
| 20 | ‘ We were part of the opposition , so what else would you expect us to do ? ’ |
| 21 | What did you expect us to do ? |
| 22 | Returning to the conversation , over the delicious Peking duck , and fresh cabbage washed down with a splendid Chinese wine , our host argued fervently : ‘ Tractors : do not be silly : what would you expect us to do with all the donkey minders ? ’ |
| 23 | Where countries use their own devices to protect their domestic industries artificially from genuine overseas competition , they must expect us to do the same . |
| 24 | And what did you expect us to do ? |
| 25 | ‘ What do they expect us to do ? ’ |
| 26 | The holy spirit gives us a new prospective on life and it , it , it deepens our relationship with God , we do n't have to try and make , make a success of our new Christian life by ourselves , you know it does n't matter whether you 've been a Christian for a week , for a day , for twenty , for fifty years , if you try to do it one day by yourself you are guaranteed failure , there is no way you can do it , it does n't matter how long you 've been a Christian or how short a period , you can not do it , if the great apostle Paul , he could , he said I can do nothing of myself he said I am not sufficient , for all my learning , for all the wonderful visions I 've had , for the knowledge that God has given to me , that I 've been able to write these great apostle 's , he says that I can not do it myself , I ca n't live this Christian life myself and the tremendous thing that none of us , no matter who we are , we do not have to try to make a success of our Christian life on our own , it 's a partnership and God is the senior partner in it , he does n't expect us to do it by ourselves , listen to what the , the , that , the same apostle Paul says when he 's writing to the , the Gelation Christians , in , in chapter two , verse twenty , listen to what he says there , he says I have been crucified with Christ and it is no longer I who live but Christ lives in me and the life which I know live in the flesh I live by faith in the son of God who loved me and delivered himself for me , he said I do n't do it by myself , why not , very simply cos he ca n't , he did n't know how to , he did n't have the power to do it he says but the life I 'm living , I live by the power of Christ who died for me , who gave himself for me and who now lives in me now by the holy spirit |
| 27 | He does n't expect us to succeed , but on the other hand he does n't expect the German attack to succeed , either . |
| 28 | The Russians will expect us to use our agents . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Do you seriously expect us to forgive and forget the inhumanity and the misery of the poll tax ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Do you seriously expect us to forgive and forget the inhumanity of the poll tax ? ’ demanded one of the 500 , offering Major the chance to say ‘ Sorry ’ . |