Example sentences of "us [vb infin] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had they played the ball down th channels or to the corner flags , this would have turned their defence and let us regroup and play in their half . |
| 2 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 3 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 4 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 5 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 6 | That just made us laugh because |
| 7 | Or they may appeal to our feelings — advertisements that evoke nostalgia , or involve appealing children and animals ; that make us laugh or rely on sex appeal , are all playing on our emotions to persuade us to buy . |
| 8 | [ 9 ] When we build , let us think that we build for ever . |
| 9 | In the years since , we 've kept a Northern Ireland file , and a few months ago we had collected enough encouraging evidence to make us think that a concerted effort would enable us to name the man most consistently pointed at as being in control of the IRA , Martin McGuinness . |
| 10 | God plays an important role in Coleridge 's poetry , as a symbol of ultimate creativity ; both ‘ the creation ’ in biblical terms , and the powers of creation with which we are all invested , are the result of the workings of the ‘ Great Universal Teacher ’ , and so consequently the poet has tremendous respect for God , as he lets us think as we wish ; ‘ he shall mould thy spirit and by giving make it ask ’ , is a line that seems to sum up Coleridge 's views adequately . |
| 11 | With very few exceptions , they found the world of FE a little alien , but showed no adversarial tendencies ; they were unanimous in their insistence on high standards and will help us attain and maintain these . |
| 12 | Let us eat and drink ; for tomorrow we shall die |
| 13 | Come , let us eat and talk |
| 14 | Though the effect is purely symbolic , even poetic , as well as chilling , much of its force depends on rapidly cutting away to Marion 's car being pulled out of the lake — a banal , everyday detail of the investigation that almost makes us doubt whether we really saw that skull , previously forced on the viewer with horrifying shock impact in the cellar scene . |
| 15 | The last of those three comments was , it is true , written almost fifteen years ago , long before the more than ‘ adequate ’ gay images of My Beautiful Laundrette or Law of Desire or Torch Song Trilogy , but I think the general point stands : before we stampede to dispense with ‘ identity ’ , let us consider whether it still has its uses as a rallying point for political action . |
| 16 | And then they used to leave it and let us wait and this that and the other you know . |
| 17 | Other countries are not saying , ’ Let us wait and see if convergence happens ; let us wait and see whether performance improves . ’ |
| 18 | Other countries are not saying , ’ Let us wait and see if convergence happens ; let us wait and see whether performance improves . ’ |
| 19 | Mihal turned pale at the thought of killing his grandfather , but Martin kept on at him until he said " Well , let us wait until he is asleep , and then we will burn down his hut . |
| 20 | Let us wait until we know . ’ |
| 21 | Please let us know whether we and/or our client would have any rights in this matter ? |
| 22 | It would be helpful if you could let us know whether or not you can come . |
| 23 | Roth has left off with his mythologising fury — and his memoir lets us know that the benefits that come to the writer who tries , or even seems , to stick to the facts may amount to something more than those of hindsight . |
| 24 | And Eliot lets us know that he had to argue with Pound , who wanted in some items that Eliot excluded , and wanted out some items on which Eliot insisted . |
| 25 | Let us know that we are really alive and the only way we can do this is to live with ever growing joy and enthusiasm . |
| 26 | We felt that Navan Resources should have made earlier contact with us to let us know that there was gold here , before we had to hear it in that way , ’ Mary Catherine Heanue said . |
| 27 | One essay may have both first-class and abysmal features and yet be graded neither A nor F ; instead it may get a C which fails altogether in letting us know that it differs from another essay graded C which is consistently of that quality in all its parts . |
| 28 | Willow warblers sang meandering cadences from the trees and a vehement sedge warbler vocalised from a reed bed , letting us know that once again they had safely survived the perilous crossing of arid desert and squally sea . |
| 29 | Richard 's opening soliloquy ( which is also the opening text of the entire play ) must count as the clearest ‘ policy ’ statement of the tragedy principle in representation : Before this , Richard has let us know that he is not happy with the non-warring state of affairs and is set to provide destruction . |
| 30 | ‘ I 've got so much on my mind , ’ said my mother irritably , letting us know that she was bearing the.full burden of the forthcoming taxing ceremony . |