Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 2 | Some of these , no doubt , are very satisfactory to us in our present state of opinion about the constitution of bodies , but there are others which are likely to startle us out of our complacency and perhaps ultimately to drive us out of all the hypotheses in which we have hitherto found refuge into that thoroughly conscious ignorance which is a prelude to every real advance.in knowledge . |
| 3 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 4 | Well , knock us down with a feather . |
| 5 | ‘ Mr Deveraugh , ’ she said , shaping the words with lips flattened by barely suppressed rage , ‘ you will turn this boat around , right now , and head us back in the direction of the rafts . ’ |
| 6 | We know what we like , like what we know , unless something quite powerfully intervenes to shake us out of it . |
| 7 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 8 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 9 | I say that because all the engines of recovery seem incapable of driving us out of the recession . |
| 10 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 11 | ‘ She beats us up for kicks . ’ |
| 12 | It takes a Wittgenstein to pull us up with a jolt , by saying that this is like translating a chair — not the word ‘ chair ’ , but a chair — into French . |
| 13 | Britain is in an economic mess and we need level-headed , responsible leaders to pull us out of it . |
| 14 | ‘ It 's an awful thing to say , but the revenue to pull us out of this recession has to come from somewhere , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ It 's an awful thing to say , but the revenue to pull us out of this recession has to come from somewhere , ’ she said . |
| 16 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 17 | Hence none of the engines of recovery is available to pull us out of the recession . |
| 18 | Except at the beginning , when the eccentric lord immediately clashed with Johnson , even though Johnson says that the magnetism of Lord Monboddo 's conversation ‘ easily drew us out of our way , and the entertainment which we received would have been a sufficient recompense for a much greater deviation ’ . |
| 19 | Pat 's son invited us round for dinner , I never thought so say you know ! |
| 20 | He even invited us round to the house one night , to give me a loan of a book on the Gothic Imagination . |
| 21 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 22 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 23 | tossing us out at the wall . |
| 24 | Then all the glass started to go everywhere and the police helped us out of the area . ’ |
| 25 | He fixed us up with a drink , accommodation and a training session that evening . |
| 26 | Until then , the platform holds us out against the townscape |
| 27 | ‘ Just fly us out of here and I 'll take my complication with me . ’ |
| 28 | He could chop us up into flitters . ’ |
| 29 | Fletcher said : ‘ Our batting department has let us down in both Tests , although everyone has been working hard on their game and how to combat their spinners on turning pitches . |
| 30 | The Government has let us down by not realising we needed investment . |