Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us that " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinian guerrillas would squat behind their outposts of earth and rocks up in the cold air among the fir trees , cradling their rocket-propelled grenades and announcing to us that the Syrians would not be permitted to move one more metre — not one more inch — along the highway to Beirut . |
| 2 | You see I 've got with me in the studio here Stan Bowes , who 's the head of marketing for the Thames and Chilterns Tourist Board , and Stan has just been explaining to us that there is this campaign to encourage people to take holidays in this country . |
| 3 | It was stressed to us that pupils having difficulty with English because it was their second language should not be equated with pupils with other special educational needs . |
| 4 | If they 're worshipping him , could they guarantee to us that he … you know … enjoys being worshipped . |
| 5 | It 's a , it 's a fascinating report and having been involved in the Food Forum discussion , when we , it was reported to us that we 'd actually lost a community nutritionist , I read this with great interest to see just how now the professional was seen through sections . |
| 6 | ‘ At first we tried breeze blocks , ’ Sally explains , ‘ but it very quickly occurred to us that the only way was to do it properly , using original bricks . ’ |
| 7 | It occurred to us that either the gap between the rich and the poor had become much wider than anyone had ever imagined and that these people had not a clue about our reality or else their campaigns were a deliberate conspiracy to cover up the real cause of our appalling health record . |
| 8 | It occurred to us that you 'd be the ideal person to teach him what goes on behind the scenes . ’ |
| 9 | Jim was a charge nurse , it never occurred to us that we were living before , below the poverty line . |
| 10 | So often people say to us that they wish us well and that we are doing a good job . |
| 11 | And can you perhaps confirm for us that you were wearing , tell us the gear explained by the previous witness . |
| 12 | So , you can confirm for us that NovaSports are still in that position , and I think some of us understand the nature of Avarag . |
| 13 | Jock instilled into us that the end product of our training was for us to become independent in every way , operating either alone or in very small groups . |
| 14 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 15 | Both the Bishop and the parish ( St Mary 's , Avondale ) in Harare were obviously keen to have us and our visit helped confirm to us that this seems to be the Lord 's next step for us . |
| 16 | The full package will be made available to you as soon as you can confirm to us that the other material areas of uncertainty in your offer have been resolved . |
| 17 | It occurs to us that by concentrating all special educational resources on individual children we may actually be missing the point . |
| 18 | ( It occurs to us that it may have been Durfey who sang Aeneas in the school production . |
| 19 | Gentlemen , it occurs to us that you 're going , we 're going to be waffling on for half an hour plus , in a sense . |
| 20 | A lot of people have said to us that our gigs remind them of when they 're in the bathroom , miming with a tennis racket , pouring water over their heads for that sweat experience . ’ |
| 21 | A lot of people have said to us that our gigs remind them of when they 're in the bathroom , miming with a tennis racket , pouring water over their heads for that sweat experience . ’ |
| 22 | There was a large pool of unemployed in those days and it seemed to us that no sooner were you in than they were trying to get you off the job . |
| 23 | It seemed to us that two nettles had to be grasped : the first was to decide whether divorce law should attempt to remedy the ‘ injustice ’ meted out to ‘ innocent ’ spouses who are divorced against their will . |
| 24 | ‘ Having done the Tunstall settlement — which was really driven by concern over the costs , it seemed to us that we had a moral obligation to extend that deal to other shareholders , ’ Ernst & Young 's national marketing partner David Wilson told ACCOUNTANCY . |
| 25 | Unless we were adding value to the constituent parts of the group it seemed to us that our plain duty would be to break the group into smaller constituent parts and hand them back to the shareholders . |
| 26 | But , for reasons which I will later mention , it seemed to us that there would be no serious answer to the defendant 's rectification claim and Mr. Rayner James for the building society did not contend otherwise . |
| 27 | In a similar vein , Clara Malraux who spent several months in the company of Nizan in Moscow in 1934 , recalls that Nizan 's hopes for the creation of " new values " , a " new man " in Soviet society were not fulfilled : " It seemed to us that the new man had not yet emerged " . |
| 28 | At the time it seemed to us that Hilda was not the happy , carefree girl her father and I wished her to be . |
| 29 | So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy . |
| 30 | Special needs again we 've highlighted , we have put in a token on the er in the primary sector erm it 's a notional amount , clearly we ca n't tell the schools how to spend their money but it seemed to us that the increasing in managerial role of primary deputy heads , they would welcome er a small increase in non con in non contact time . |