Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] us [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 2 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |
| 3 | The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two . |
| 4 | Happily in those days there was no air navel to take us in a few hours to Addis Ababa and bring us back a few days later . |
| 5 | For this reason I am deeply committed to the cause of raising our profile , and you will all be aware of the initiatives that are under way to promote us in a wider role . |
| 6 | TO our delight Edinburgh 's own novelist Lucilla Andrews accepted and invitation to visit us for a formal presentation of some signed copies of her books . |
| 7 | ‘ To celebrate this remarkable new breakthrough in British holiday technology , we are inviting the press to join us on a special round trip to Sharjah , the Pearl of the Trucial Riviera , next month … ’ |