Example sentences of "he [verb] us [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 2 | Another time he got us to lie on the floor with our legs in the air . |
| 3 | For Bernstein , this is to experience the music at second hand ; he wants us to live through the emotional upheaval rather than be merely aware of its implications . |
| 4 | Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do . |
| 5 | He told us to sit by the fire . |
| 6 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 7 | Why did he tell us to go to the front stairs ? ’ |