Example sentences of "us [verb] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | These enabled us to estimate numbers of resident males aged 11–21 and 22–35 . |
| 2 | But these features were obviously not the ‘ causes ’ of crime , they were merely signs that supposedly enabled us to spot criminals . |
| 3 | Some of us got debts . |
| 4 | In these days of high land values and intensive land use it is comforting to the conservationists among us to see areas such as Threipmuir Common being designated as a Site of Special Interest and thus being left to nature . |
| 5 | Our star is too bright for us to see stars from further away . |
| 6 | The war has torn the scales from our eyes , and forced us to see things as they really are , and by the light of this clearer vision we have come to regard many conditions as intolerable which before had only seemed inevitable … |
| 7 | ‘ Playing regularly in south Wales has helped us to go places and 10 years on it 's nice to crown it with a win like this . |
| 8 | ‘ There is less wear and tear on top management and it allows us to arrange meetings more quickly which might not take place otherwise , ’ says Royal Bank spokesman Alwyn James , speaking in Technicolor from his studio in Edinburgh . ’ |
| 9 | We have both held the office of Head Server , he at and I at and both of us remain members of the Anglican Church . |
| 10 | Sir Lawrence refused to disclose details of the voting on Tendulkar 's signing at yesterday 's meeting of the Cricket Committee but Bradford member Bob Appleyard said : ‘ A batsman will not help us to bowl sides out twice . |
| 11 | Let us make schemata of coloured mandalas and hang them on the mind 's screens as objects of meditation . |
| 12 | They was making us make baskets , for the war effort . |
| 13 | It goes on to say and it came about that in thy journeying eastward they eventually discovered a valid plain and a land of Shinar and they took up growing there and they began to say each one to the other come on let us make bricks and bake and bake with a burning process , so bricks served as stone for them and |
| 14 | But we do not claim that we have reached the ‘ vernacular ’ , or the most casual of possible styles , for any informant ( although some reports on our work have stated that we have ) : we merely claim that our data is rich and variable enough to enable us to classify styles on the stylistic continuum in an extremely well motivated way . |
| 15 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 16 | " We want to talk to Vietnam , " Baker said , " because we think they have influence over the Cambodian government and could use this to help us construct conditions permitting free elections . " |
| 17 | These developments have now allowed us to perform measurements of total protein , amylase , and trypsin turnover in 10 patients who have experienced acute attacks of alcohol induced pancreatitis . |
| 18 | The system allows us to establish ranges of values for fields and then codes the data accordingly . |
| 19 | It is impossible to resolve these problems since there is no information which would allow us to pass judgements on them . |
| 20 | It is somewhat unrealistic to imagine people gnawing away at sugar cane or sugar beet , so as an example at the opposite extreme let us consider apples . |
| 21 | Let us consider examples of these different kinds of written speech . |
| 22 | Let us consider animals first . |
| 23 | Finally , let us consider wages . |
| 24 | Instead of uses of ‘ I ’ , let us consider uses of ‘ It 's me ’ . |
| 25 | A result of our own R&D , these have not only enabled us to increase margins but have also raised our market share in Europe and the USA . |
| 26 | ‘ The actions we have taken and the benefits of sterling devaluation should enable us to increase profits in 1993 , but the prospects for a more substantial improvement are still clouded by the threat of recession in continental Europe and continuing uncertainty over the rate of recovery in the UK . ’ |
| 27 | It has actually raised and submerged its sulphurous head five times since its first appearance in 1925 , and when Lorne and I reached it in September of 1983 it was nearly 300 feet high and so active that the government had denied us landing permits . |
| 28 | in case one of us wants cigs |
| 29 | I wonder if on some distant planet there are creatures who are holding their sides at the prospect of us hurling plates at each other . ’ |
| 30 | Given our large and wide-ranging stock of Chinese and Japanese works of art , it has been relatively easy for us to find items with American provenances , but difficult to find ones with provenances of significance . |