Example sentences of "[verb] us [conj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Erm , to congratulate you firstly on the level of settlements that have been achieved in the extracting and building conc building products division erm secondly , on , on one six seven the refused to make an offer and , er , if you could perhaps update us as to what , er method we 're gon na approach employers now , erm , to , to secure settlements in that industry er , we think it was deplorable that no offer was made and we also think it was deplorable that E C C Building Products decided to say that even if an offer had been made , they would n't have been prepared to implement it . |
| 2 | Patricia Branca has reminded us that in the Victorian household where the man earned between £100 and £300 a year , an income range which excluded the highly skilled manual worker and included as many as 42 per cent of the middle class , there was only enough money available for the employment of one or at most two domestic servants and very little at all for the rest of the ‘ paraphernalia of gentility ’ desired by the aspiring middle class household . |
| 3 | The elements it contained ‘ helped us but in the end our approach is driven by our own particular view focused by the firm 's strategic plan ’ , said Mulvie . |
| 4 | He also underpaid us and for that he will be eternally grateful . ’ |
| 5 | Running into the target we were heavily engaged by accurate flak that caught us whilst in a large cone of searchlights . |
| 6 | That is what we have lost , in the sense that the people scorn us because of the way we march to tunes through the Lobby . |
| 7 | He told us that during the January ‘ freeze-up ’ there had been a great influx of shelduck . |
| 8 | He told us that as a young man he had joined the Fire Service in which his father was a Lieutenant , and the first fire he had attended was this crash . |
| 9 | The Committee of London Clearing Bankers told us that in recent years the banks have been opening an increasing number of accounts for customers in the middle to lower income groups . |
| 10 | The Consumer Credit Trade Association told us that in the experience of the smaller finance houses , chain stores and larger retailers who are members , this is clearly reducing payment problems ( thus making credit cheaper for their customers than it might otherwise be ) . |
| 11 | She told us that in 1979 unemployment was increasing at the astronomical figure of two thousand three hundred a week . |
| 12 | But London was a puzzle ; for Bede had told us that in his day it was ‘ a mart of many peoples ’ , a trading centre for merchants from overseas as well as for native traffickers . |
| 13 | The Keraing had told us that in the 1950s a military scouting party from Makassar had angered the village by entering the caves with special equipment and making off with a good deal of valuable porcelain — indicating it had also been used as a burial-chamber by early visiting Chinese mariners . |
| 14 | Would you please go to tag L two , six , six to begin with just to lead you into the chronology , you have told us that in August nineteen eighty seven , er there was really no interest in national budgeting , er national advertising budget , we can see this is a memorandum from you Kevin dated the fourth of August and you 're sending out to the regional marketing executives , there 's no national advertising next year which would be eighty eight . |
| 15 | Now again I but give us as to the length of time that elapsed between flying the door door breaker and you radioing ? |
| 16 | She said the Sports Council would not abandon us but in order to qualify for full Grant Aid in future we must show great improvements in these areas . |
| 17 | The giant database operator is extremely unforthcoming , but it 's hard to keep these things quiet and our spies tell us that at the last count — which was about a year ago , it was a three-way split between IBM Corp , down to one 3090-300S and one 3090-200 , Amdahl Corp with a 5990-1400 and two 5990-1400As , and Hitachi Data Systems Inc with three EX/100s ; at the time , there were also 350 of IBM 's disgraced RT Unix boxes , and 21 IBM System/88 fault-tolerant machines . |
| 18 | Martin Middlebrook and Chris Everitt 's excellent book , The Bomber Command War Diaries tell us that on the night of 23/24 September Bomber Command for the first time concentrated its main bomber strength on one city — Berlin . |
| 19 | Almond and Coleman , for example , tell us that in South-East Asia , ‘ the bureaucracy and the army are positive actors in the political process and not neutral instruments of policy ’ ( p. 145 ) and that public officials have been ‘ a main factor in holding their respective countries together ’ ( p. 131 ) . |
| 20 | Local party officials tell us that in last November 's by-election they pushed hard for the campaign slogan ‘ Ashok to the Tories . ’ |
| 21 | on your interview she said I want you tell us because at the end of the , your interview she said , it 'll help us to do the others , so they told us , giving me different situations , she 's took a patient out to a cafe and the patient pinched a cake and eaten it , what would you do ? |
| 22 | We shall have to live with it , because er I I do n't think that any hope of any redress next year , but the got to be established of a different system , of me a different methodology for the foreseeable years , if we 're going to get those schemes through that you supported wholeheartedly and congratulated us and for bringing forward the new road schemes for er the that that that that you so approved so warmly yesterday . |
| 23 | ‘ During the whole of her illness , prayer was made without ceasing by the whole Church on her behalf , and I felt persuaded that the Lord would yet hear us and for His name 's sake appear as the one prayer-hearing God — for the heathen around knew what was done , and would say , ‘ Where is now your God ? '' ’ |
| 24 | I did find a place that would take us but for Holmes there were too many interesting species of humans and dogs , for him to get involved in being trained . |
| 25 | Will you not enlighten us as to what you have learned ? ’ |
| 26 | I wonder given Selby 's recent experience with their local plan , whether they can enlighten us as to how they have reached a view that the structure plan provision in right in environmental terms for their district . |
| 27 | Perhaps your correspondent could enlighten us as to the best method of preventing unwanted teenage pregnancy , bearing in mind that young people will always form sexual relationships , regardless of the wishes of their parents or anyone else to the contrary . |
| 28 | Now , even in recession , they are approaching us and since Sachin we have added 1,500 new members . ’ |
| 29 | We are used to clashes between , for instance , justice and mercy on the human scene , between duties to those near us and to those further away , between all our duties to others and the claims of our own development and so forth . |
| 30 | In the conference call that followed Digital Equipment Corp 's announcement of its figures ( CI No 2,148 ) , news of which did n't reach us until after close of play on Wednesday , company executives said that their outlook for the rest of the year continues to be cautious given the current economic environment , and they declined to forecast profits : Bill Steul , chief financial officer , said that during the third quarter , DEC 's US business showed a decline of just under 5% , and that total product revenues were flat , while services grew at about 12% in the quarter ; business was a little soft in Germany and France and continues to be down in Japan , but that there are some signs of improvement in Japan ; DEC , in its final quarter of fiscal 1993 , does not expect much in revenues from its Alpha-based systems running Microsoft Corp 's new NT operating system before next fiscal . |