Example sentences of "[verb] [vb infin] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 2 | We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven . |
| 3 | To cut a long story short , they did rejoin us at lunch-time , De Gaulle no longer looking shit-scared so much as downright shifty . |
| 4 | They resented us in the beginning but I think as the years have gone by and they have seen the facilities that a new town has brought to their advantage I think they 're more acceptable now , but they did resent us in the beginning . |
| 5 | This had little to do with the computer but it did spur us into action . |
| 6 | We hope you find the current issue still of interest and we plan to keep up the good work during the coming year seeking out happenings/events/ stories to retell for you , but as it is your newspaper do contact us with your own ideas and suggestions at any time . |
| 7 | Journalists who call to the farm to interview me do see us in that setting and describe it as they will but those really are only momentary glimpses into what must remain , fundamentally , my private life . |
| 8 | Nevertheless , these counts do provide us with the best available source of information about the common birds of Sussex woodland . |
| 9 | However , cod and herring do provide us with their wonderful roe . |
| 10 | That ‘ event ’ had little to do with science although it did provide us with one or two technological tales , albeit mostly grim ones . |
| 11 | But they do call us towards speech , so that at least in the urgency and the felt inadequacy of our attempt to speak , erm to speak those words and lines , we can act out something of the quality and kind of our response , our shadowy awareness of what these incomparable and shrieking voices meant to the Eliot who was fighting for his own voice . |
| 12 | Do join us for a glass of cognac or champagne . |
| 13 | He did invite us to his Silver Wedding party in the Inns of Court in London . |
| 14 | ‘ Do tell us about your apprentice days , Daddy , ’ said Vicky . |
| 15 | We arrived at all of the locations in good time , although the traffic in Stoke did put us under a little pressure towards the end , we finished with a whole five minutes to spare ! |
| 16 | But Bret did let us into one secret . |
| 17 | ‘ Someone did ask us for some nude photos as well , ’ frowns Sam , desperately , ‘ But I reckon that was just people trying it on more than anything else . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ You did warn us against being taken in by that in one of your lectures , sir , ’ said Tommy . |
| 19 | It does prevent us from assuming that students are being educated because they are at a university , irrespective of what their studies are . |
| 20 | It does prevent us from daring to say that a subject becomes part of education because you teach it in a school , or at a CAT or in a university . |
| 21 | A is indeed more precise , but only in a trivial sense , for in B does present us with the same referent as in A. If , on the other hand , the lines changed places , so that we read : |
| 22 | I suggested a little time ago that the surface indications offered both by Joyce 's life and by his writing up to including The Portrait — he does leave Ireland to live with his Nora in Triest , in Switzerland , in France , in Switzerland again , until his death in nineteen forty one , visiting Dublin for the last time in nineteen hundred and twelve — he does give us in Dubliners and The Portrait a sharp sense of the traps he feels he must escape from , the church tentacular , pervasive , the seedy provincialism , the narrowness , the philistine complacency . |
| 23 | Therefore this simple technique of counting vessels as an assessment of angiogenesis does provide us with additional prognostic information and is good for patients . |
| 24 | The basic premise upon which much of this work is based is most succinctly expressed by William Downes : While Downes 's statement alludes to an unfashionable humanist notion of dramatic character , it does provide us with a valuable starting point for the present discussion . |
| 25 | ‘ But it does leave us with a problem . |
| 26 | In terms of its effect on the overall festival it certainly was a major underpinning for us because our investment was high , so it does leave us with some problems financially . |
| 27 | However , this does leave us with the unanswered question of the extent to which schools reflect social practices and the extent to which they shape them . |
| 28 | History provides us with no guide as to how all this will work out , but it does remind us of the need for sensitivity when dealing with powerful social forces . |
| 29 | Games such as crosswords , mazes , find the hidden word , etc. , can help prevent us from getting bored and allowing our thoughts to wander . |
| 30 | Denunciation may not on its own provide a general justification for having a penal system , but it may help provide us with one acceptable prin-ciple of distribution for punishment . |