Example sentences of "[verb] us [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 2 | Having been made to look stupid , he let us go without even checking up on the tax or the tyre . |
| 3 | We were very English and terribly sorry , and he let us go without a ticket . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | B but Terry let us look at the |
| 6 | Suddenly I was frightened because he had once caught us playing in the churchyard and had shouted at us and chased us out . |
| 7 | Why does my good uncle send us to plead for her ? ’ |
| 8 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 9 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 10 | After Daniel Bonnal , Hélène de Roquefeuil is featuring the Milanese Alessandro Traina , who causes us to meditate on the notion of time by juxtaposing a variety of disparate materials . |
| 11 | All kinds of conditioning causes us to act in a way that we know is contrary to what we really want . |
| 12 | Pride causes us to want to be seen as the best , but we will often use the strategy of holding others back to make sure we stay there . |
| 13 | Somebody want us to go to Newark , I think that is by Nottingham is n't it , to speak there . |
| 14 | Here , the concrete Yeah that but we have n't got the resources to do it yet We 've just got a couple of assumptions At , together at the beginning The tractor and trailer is generally helping moving between cranes loading back and forth , so many areas So , unless you want us to go through this literally point by point , it 's question time . |
| 15 | They do n't want a report of the years work they just want us to talk about one or two things we 've done Any more events ? |
| 16 | Jody perhaps you could like would like to think , if you want us to listen to your playing this afternoon I would like you to listen to what I have to say this morning please . |
| 17 | And this is what I want us to do during our two days together . |
| 18 | Just give us a shout when you want us to move into the dining-room . ’ |
| 19 | You want us to conform to your orthodoxy … |
| 20 | Thank you , Father , for the fellowship that you want us to enjoy in the church . |
| 21 | I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs . |
| 22 | In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well . |
| 23 | First of all , I want us to think about how we actually use the telephone , how you talk on the telephone , what you say , and why it 's important . |
| 24 | You want us to work like dogs … |
| 25 | Who do you think they want us to look at ? |
| 26 | they 've just rehashed the old plan , and just drawn a red line round the bit they want us to look at , erm , this bit know it 's a computer . |
| 27 | Erm , I want us to get to a stage by the time you leave tomorrow afternoon , where we actually have and you have agreed a plan for your team . |
| 28 | She comes into the room like a shy actress making a bad entrance , to find us poised round the door like actors on the set . |
| 29 | Will he expect to find us massed against him at Melrose ? ’ |
| 30 | Why it should be so in the case of the United Kingdom constitution is , again , a matter of history — and perhaps it again behoves us to bear in mind that the constitution is a process , rather than a settled state of things . |