Example sentences of "[vb past] we [to-vb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eadred invited us to sit round the table . |
| 2 | He told us to sit by the fire . |
| 3 | Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do . |
| 4 | Needless to say , when the local newscaster finally ended our agony and allowed us to return to the cricket , we discovered that the England captain had been dismissed . |
| 5 | Another time he got us to lie on the floor with our legs in the air . |
| 6 | Misinformation from respected sources led us to state in the Feedback section of our November issue that the neck on the recently reviewed Manson ‘ Classic S ’ guitar was Japanese in origin . |
| 7 | These questions led us to think about the relationship between the public world of politics , government , industry and commerce , and the private world of the family , kinship and domestic arrangements . |
| 8 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 9 | ‘ No-one wanted us to go to the spot where he died it 's right in the middle of what they call ‘ bandit ’ territory . |
| 10 | Barry Pearson , Darlington 's principal environmental health officer , explained : ‘ Rothmans wanted us to pay for the hire of the centre and the money was n't immediately available . |