Example sentences of "[verb] we [to-vb] [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 I want us to get out of the habit of losing .
2 Moderator I think er Mr wants us to go back to the words reconciliation .
3 I think that this is one of the moral lessons which Dickens wants us to learn about from the tale .
4 Ordinarily , learning allows us to go on in the same way , to repeat what has been learned , whether it is a matter of fact ( that London is the capital of England ) or an action ( driving a car in familiar circumstances ) .
5 Mrs Fry went straight to the kitchen , told us to sit down at the table , opened the oven ( split-level cooker , of course ) and got out a huge pot .
6 In our case , of course , it is a mature , open and enquiring critical mind that leads us to read on into the churls ' tales of " harlotrie " , not a degrading taste for such material and a lack of interest in : We might see the combination of the intrinsically low status of the Miller and the consequently low expectations of what he will produce with the sophistication of his narrative performance as simply an entertaining absurdity , or perhaps a burlesque , like Chauntecleer 's discursive pomp and display in the Nun 's Priest 's Tale .
7 I believe that he is also calling us to break out of the margins and take the battle to the Enemy .
8 The summit may be an opportunity — I know that my right hon. Friend the Prime Minister is encouraging other Heads of State to attend it — that will enable us to put over to the British population the need to recognise that there is a balance , an interdependence and a need for the transfer of resources .
9 It will not be long before the circumstances in this country — I do not refer to a change of Government at the next election , which I profoundly do not wish to see — allow us to catch up in the two key areas which were subjected to further delay on this occasion .
10 The adverts scold us and cajole us and wheedle us and fawn us to keep up with the Joneses .
11 At the end of the rollout the tailwheel lock was disengaged to allow us to amble back round the peri-track ; thereafter the shutdown followed usual pattern of a cooling-down period , a magneto check and the pulling out of the mixture to full lean .
12 Jacob 's talk of blessing invites us to step out of the demon myth and fairy story , back into a land with which we have grown familiar , where human beings bump not into demons , but into God himself .
13 If the whites can only hold their form , this may allow us to sneak up on the blind side and pip them both at the death .
14 The physical reactions that stress triggers help us to jump out of the way of a passing bus , or win the egg and spoon race at the village sports day .
15 Er if , if there is a sufficient er indication in these words an indication , a pointer as I say , if there 's a transparency in these words which enables us to see through to the truth then our formulation of it does n't matter all that much .
16 You know why she did n't want us to go up into the bathroom ?
17 He encourages us to face up to the question how useful educational qualifications really are in getting jobs .
18 She asked us to go back to the golden age of Callaghan .
19 so , we went into Morecambe and he asked us to go back in the farm again with this ladder
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