Example sentences of "[verb] us [noun pl] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The decision was taken after other member countries refused to accept US demands for a reduction of its contribution to the ISO 's budget and for its redefinition as a " study group " rather than a body with price-stabilizing powers . |
| 2 | Could you , therefore , please send us prints of the 59 stills used in the manuscript of the Student 's Activity Book ? |
| 3 | Please send us copies of your rules , ’ wrote one . |
| 4 | To enter the competition , which is sponsored by FAF , send us details of the machine , plus photographs or drawings . |
| 5 | So in this area , the attempt to impose US guidelines on competition were reversed . |
| 6 | Opposition to the deal built up because of fears that this plutonium would free US stocks for use in its weapons programme and so indirectly help US weapons expansion . |
| 7 | in the top flat , they , they were rehoused in a flat in a block of mansion flats and when I came out of the army this was the accommodation I found available , er for me and I objected strongly and after a great deal of fuss erm the Islington Borough Council 's Housing Department found us rooms on the first floor in a Victoria Victorian villa in Penventon Gardens , which erm , were comfortable |
| 8 | He promised us photos of the bairn because I said that was the condition for signing , and I got one and that was that . |
| 9 | With all these suggestions we are putting forward minor hypotheses which we would like to test , because added together they will give us answers to our initial broad hypothesis about baptism . |
| 10 | So , the play of party politics at the ballot box may give us interludes of constitutional peace , but we can not escape the fact that the British constitution is still up for grabs , in politics , and on the agenda for change . |
| 11 | The information we gather will give us months of future material to work from — there will be opportunities both indoors and out to expand our notes into larger works if we wish . |
| 12 | That will give us results with no mess . ’ |
| 13 | Moreover , they become mentally attuned to American tactical doctrines , which are often devised to sell US equipments to the Western Alliance . |
| 14 | Also , to counter US criticisms of a trade imbalance , China had dispatched a buying mission which signed contracts worth $1,200 million . |
| 15 | All this is God 's doing , for he has reconciled us to himself through Jesus Christ ; and he has made us agents of the reconciliation . ’ 2 Corinthians 5:17 |
| 16 | Professional converters , as used by broadcasters to screen US tapes in Europe , give better quality . |
| 17 | Retix also cut US prices on its 4900 Series remote bridge-routers : the 4941 is off 10% at $4,450 ; the 4942 16.8% to $4,950 , the 4982 by 14.3% to $5,950 ; and the 2265M/S local bridge is reduced by 18.6% to $1,750 . |
| 18 | It probably cost us seats at the general election . |
| 19 | He had a patch of land he ploughed with a hand plough and he told us stories about coming home across the fields in snowdrifts with carthorses . |
| 20 | I used to sit transfixed as he told us stories about some of these DPs , as they were called . |
| 21 | She told us stories about her childhood in Clophill ( I think ) but she never told us anything unpleasant , whereas I remember one good lady who loved to horrify us with tales of ghastly happenings ! |
| 22 | US Marines had been deployed to the nearby US navy base at Guantanamo on Cuba , to evacuate US citizens from Haiti if necessary . |
| 23 | Iraq boycotted the proceedings , claiming that it was " a theatre to peddle suspect US policies against Iraq " . |
| 24 | ‘ Dad had taken us shopping and he 'd bought us loads of things — extravagant presents that were sort of unnecessary . |
| 25 | He showed us videos of them in action and I was convinced he was going to bring out the old Kirk Douglas film The Vikings to empha-sise the point , ’ said Neal . |
| 26 | She showed us trees with calabashes and wooden fruits , and a thicket of juicy ginger stalks which sheltered huge , pink plastic blossoms . |
| 27 | Finally he showed us examples of the work being done by Christians and others fighting AIDS and HIV in communities in Sao Paulo on the East coast . |
| 28 | ‘ A man came and showed us slides of both Australia and Canada . |
| 29 | The Auvergnat evidence , thus , shows us bishops in context , some managing to dominate their diocese , others at odds with their clergy , or hampered by secular figures , most clearly by the outsider Chramn . |
| 30 | Surreptitiously photographed at very close quarters he shows us moments in the sand — moments private and not so private . |