Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I want us still to go out together , I want him to be my boyfriend , I really need him to confide in , as I do n't seem to have a close girlfriend . |
| 2 | That is their secret , and will remain so ; it behoves us not to pry , only to speculate in passing . |
| 3 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 4 | The captain invited us brusquely to sit on a bench before the table and hurried out of a side door . |
| 5 | This was Elisabeth Lee ; she invited us down to look round while she went off to collect her child . |
| 6 | ‘ You British people , ’ he said , ‘ come to our country , you take it over , you make us learn your language , you teach us your history which is full of your own struggles for freedom , you teach us your literature which enshrines just the same principles of freedom , and then you expect us not to want freedom ! |
| 7 | The opinions of others may direct us how to think and react . |
| 8 | Secondly , again despite the qualifications mentioned earlier , Foucault 's emphasis on the emergence of discourses and practice which both produce and regulate the objects of knowledge , does direct us correctly to investigate the role of particular apparatuses , such as the medical , psychiatric , social welfare , charity and legal institutions , in shaping sexualities . |
| 9 | I keep , apart from the fact that we 've got an enormous number of deadlines , but David keeps saying , ’ we must stop ’ , and then people ring us up and say ’ Oh , I , can I do this ’ , and we 've , you know people say , ’ Oh , well , I play the saxophone ’ , and then we find out that he 's got a huge band and he 's very famous , and they 've just rung us up to say , you know , can we play for you for free . |
| 10 | But it was the scabs er that well they put us down to start with , and then the was picket line started cracking up was the these lads not prepared to do it . |
| 11 | When we were recently in the United States I was very pleased to find that the top officials there , including Eagleburger and Robson , advised us not to hurry . |
| 12 | But a subtle critic may well save us a great deal of time , pain and trouble in the learning , for he can set us aright at the outset , and by his example rather than by his assertions show us how to avoid admiring that which is unworthy . |
| 13 | Neither Fairfax nor Lady De Marr notices them but , drunk as I am , I feel them imploring us mutely to go away . |
| 14 | A letter to Dr. Watson from the Sir C.J. Liston Foulis Trust , dated 14th October 1991 states , ‘ Our clients have instructed us not to continue the lease either on short-time or long term basis and therefore the ground with the buildings there-on belongs to our clients outright and the residents of Juniper Green have no right to occupy it or use it for playing tennis or for any other purpose . ’ |
| 15 | I was going in I was gon na ask somebody to come down and show us how to light the boiler . |
| 16 | I was quite surprised , er during the summer I went to my grandson 's school fete and they had a hot air balloon demonstration there and this er , this car turned up with a trailer on the back with , I du n no , probably some name , hot air balloon name on the trailer , I thought oh yes he 's gon na show us how to inflate it and i I was quite amazed from the time he unpacked the balloon to the time it actually took off was only ten minutes . |
| 17 | The form that the argument in our research will take will show us how to use our hypotheses . |
| 18 | The whistle would go , Whitaker would show us how to swing over the regulator and we would be away . |
| 19 | His appeal to the concept of a super-organism allowed him to present ecology as a science that would show us how to manage the natural productivity of an entire region . |
| 20 | They really did show us how to play rugby league . ’ |
| 21 | The way the poem is ordered allows us momentarily to read it as if the juxtaposition was just that of eye and Canaletto , for the eye appears at first as an independent entity . |
| 22 | Space allows us only to look at some of the most significant of these developments here . |
| 23 | She left a letter for me , and she did include the Purdeys in her Wall , and told us where to boil I looked , yesterday , and found the trunk empty . |
| 24 | Daddy erm you know GrandPat told us not to go on our backs shutes . |
| 25 | He told us not to turn around and to give him our money and jewellery or he would kill us . ’ |
| 26 | Well , they told us not to wet it . |
| 27 | They told us not to wet it . |
| 28 | The one Alex told us not to put through ! ’ |
| 29 | " We saw some prisoners being beaten , " explained Joseph , turning to Paul Devraux , " but he told us not to feel sorry for them . |
| 30 | You told us not to tell you . |