Example sentences of "[verb] us [to-vb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 8 The stimulus is the pin which when pressed onto the hand , causes us to feel pain . |
| 2 | The RSPCA want us to take responsibility for our rubbish … and take it home … out of harms way . |
| 3 | Well , apparently that used to be the official advice er and , and we were correct in that but the authorities have now changed their minds and they no longer want us to pour waste chemical down the drains and I gather that the official advice now is that surplus diluted chemical should be poured , and I 'm quoting here , on to more or less level and bare soil in the garden or on to level gravelled paths , avoid disposal in areas around ponds , erm water courses and so forth , dishes and , and what have you and as far as undiluted chemicals are concerned , that 's stuff still in the bottle , the advice there is to talk to your local authority cos they have different regulations in different areas . |
| 4 | You want us to lie east of the forest with the fire in our faces and cut off Siward if he tries to make his escape . |
| 5 | ‘ By the way , Helen wants us to have tea with her . |
| 6 | Society members who are at present on our own list would be asked for permission to allow their names to go forward enabling us to take part and benefit . |
| 7 | Because people had seen the recorder being switched off , they ignored the microphones , leaving them within a few inches of their mouths , thus enabling us to record conversation of superb acoustic quality . |
| 8 | A youth training fund would enable us to continue this scheme , not only with a view to employment , but enabling us to provide training and development of personal skills , which would benefit them in future employment or future education . |
| 9 | said : ‘ We are audited on a regular basis by the major pharmaceutical companies who expect us to match FDA standards . |
| 10 | Physics is the study of simple things that do not tempt us to invoke design . |
| 11 | Strong belief in the virtues of stylistic and semantic consistency urge us to keep kindness and sword-strokes , loved women and bestridden horses , in separate mental compartments . |
| 12 | God also created us to have significance . |
| 13 | Wemmick advised us to move Magwitch out of the country in the middle of the week . |
| 14 | Until the launch of the so-called ‘ minor tranquillisers ’ in the early Sixties , anxiety was seen as an inevitable everyday experience , and , moreover , as a valuable psychological spur compelling us to take stock of things if they went wrong . |
| 15 | The unimpressiveness of some of Gandhi 's arguments in favour of ahi sā , however , should not be allowed to detract from the strength of other arguments , or cause us to lose sight of his basic position . |
| 16 | Some of the things we read cause us to gain knowledge and understanding , to question and to reconsider already-held ‘ knowledge ’ and opinions . |
| 17 | As we have seen , the Directives compel us to apply group accounting to undertakings which are not necessarily companies . |
| 18 | Perhaps the greatest value binocular vision has for us is that it allows us to judge distance . |
| 19 | It allows us to put client choice at the core of community care services , ’ she says . |
| 20 | Not surprisingly , this expertise allows us to undertake project management , world wide , of the design , co-ordination and build of beautiful custom yachts to the highest specifications . |
| 21 | So it is that close attention to the language itself and reference to systemic knowledge allows us to negotiate meaning and acquire the kind of information which for the reader in the schematic know is provided in advance . |
| 22 | A safe , sheltered sailing area allows us to weave tuition into a programme of day cruises . |
| 23 | The payoffs for being a victim are simple : it allows us to avoid responsibility for our lives , to wallow in self-pity rather than taking care of ourselves , and to punish others . |
| 24 | This technology allows us to produce particle beams with enormous power ( up to a million amps at a few million volts ) but very short duration , typically one ten-millionth of a second . |
| 25 | This choice allows us to accord primacy to the authority 's interpretation , while still preserving judicial control . |
| 26 | Such an approach allows us to experience nature 's response to the controlled variation of an environment . |
| 27 | They you know we create confusion because it it allows us to have control . |
| 28 | It is this incredible flexibility that allows us to juggle page layouts in just a few minutes and produce a fresh piece of artwork each time rather than wait hours , even days , for the re-worked page to come back from the artist 's studio . |
| 29 | It forces us to see man in total and forces us to recognise the limitations of a positivist view of the social sciences . |
| 30 | You ca n't expect us to dance attendance up the stairs as well . |