Example sentences of "he [verb] us [verb] [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 And he let us climb to the top deck of the car , with a much better view of the route , this being usually reserved for smokers .
4 Because he will have to leave early to join up again with Australia , he feels he owes us runs from the word go .
5 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 .
6 Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do .
7 He told us to sit by the fire .
8 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 .
9 Why did he tell us to go to the front stairs ? ’
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