Example sentences of "[noun] [to-vb] us in the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 2 | ‘ Ask your mother and Gwen to join us in the garden , will you Andrew ? ’ |
| 3 | After several visits from head office staff to put us in the picture , we now look forward to being part of a much larger organisation and being fully ‘ commercialised ’ in 1992 . ’ |
| 4 | Just as we have adopted an intuitive approach to the concept of set so we shall allow our intuition to guide us in the matter of whether or not an explanation is logically acceptable : to formalise the notion of acceptability would take us too far afield , into symbolic logic . |
| 5 | erm well I mean I think there 's a problem for adults as well as children in that we I do n't think it 's helpful to cover ourselves in guilt about erm what happens to the suffering that other people experience , arguably erm in order to maintain us in the living standards , you know , we 've learned to expect , but at the same time I think that the situation in the world is only tolerable to us psychologically because on some level we convince ourselves that erm those people who are starving and those children who are in a hysterically trying to keep themselves out of the way of shrapnel and hiding night after night in freezing cold shelters in Baghdad are not really people and not really children in the same way that we 're people and our children are children , and do n't feel things in the same way . |
| 6 | By inviting people to follow Christ , we must also be in a position to include the invitation to join us in the pilgrimage . |