Example sentences of "[adv] [vb infin] us [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | We said that this in no way lessens the grief , but it does perhaps help us prepare for the event . |
2 | One might expect , a priori , that no empirical ( that is perception-based ) observations could provide evidence in support of a metaphysical theory of perception ; that perceptions would not enable us to get to the root of perception . |
3 | When costs are so profitable why would they need full-time employees , they can just have us stood at the door any d any g at the gate any week they want , begging for a day 's work . |
4 | The fact that the government pays the compensation should not lead us to think of the government as an ordinary defendant . |
5 | These results do not require us to dispense with the idea of an internal body clock , if only because they appear very rarely in experiments lasting only a week or so . |
6 | Thus , unlike social class , social network does not require us to project at the initial stage a fully-fledged theory of social structure on to the linguistic data . |
7 | There may be some honesty there , but please do not let us hear from the Liberal Democrats that , if they vote against the Bill this evening , they have anything constructive to offer either existing coal miners or those displaced by restructuring . |
8 | ‘ It is a pittance and it will not help us deal with the huge problems caused by the closure of Parkside . |
9 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |
10 | I do n't I thin I think there 's probably a lot lot less sexism just in terms of I think we 've won their respect by you know and and certainly when th they did n't want us to picket in the beginning , and then over the months really the women have done quite a lot of successful picketing when we 've been asked and and we 've staged quite big pickets quite a lot of you know the big pickets were really organized and the rallies have been organized by us and really sort of quite a lot of the input into into the strike I think has come from the women 's support group in in quite a unique way . |
11 | The men did n't like us to sit on the platform . |
12 | Somehow I ca n't see us remaining in the number two position — but fingers crossed scumta will strike down our foes and inspire out team to greater things and we 'll go on to win the league . |
13 | Disputes about who 's going to stop drinking and drive home do n't help us go with the flow . |
14 | Our discoveries about their similarities and differences will lead us to examine other passages in Exodus and Numbers , and our desire to explain certain features of all these texts will then encourage us to look at the positions they occupy in the larger narrative , and so discuss their contexts in greater detail . |