Example sentences of "[verb] us [to-vb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does my good uncle send us to plead for her ? ’ |
| 2 | For history reveals , time and again , that while vertical thinking can bring our full intellectual powers to bear upon a problem and thus to consolidate a position , it is chance that causes us to stumble upon it ( both the problem and its possible solution ) in the first place . |
| 3 | Logique du sens causes us to reflect on matters that philosophy has neglected for many centuries : the event ( assimilated in a concept , from which we vainly attempted to extract it in the form of a fact , verifying a proposition , of actual experience , a modality of the subject , of concreteness , the empirical content of history ) ; and the phantasm ( reduced in the name of reality and situated at the extremity , the pathological pole , of a normative sequence : perception-image-memory-illusion ) . |
| 4 | After Daniel Bonnal , Hélène de Roquefeuil is featuring the Milanese Alessandro Traina , who causes us to meditate on the notion of time by juxtaposing a variety of disparate materials . |
| 5 | All kinds of conditioning causes us to act in a way that we know is contrary to what we really want . |
| 6 | Pride causes us to want to be seen as the best , but we will often use the strategy of holding others back to make sure we stay there . |
| 7 | Somebody want us to go to Newark , I think that is by Nottingham is n't it , to speak there . |
| 8 | Here , the concrete Yeah that but we have n't got the resources to do it yet We 've just got a couple of assumptions At , together at the beginning The tractor and trailer is generally helping moving between cranes loading back and forth , so many areas So , unless you want us to go through this literally point by point , it 's question time . |
| 9 | They do n't want a report of the years work they just want us to talk about one or two things we 've done Any more events ? |
| 10 | Jody perhaps you could like would like to think , if you want us to listen to your playing this afternoon I would like you to listen to what I have to say this morning please . |
| 11 | And this is what I want us to do during our two days together . |
| 12 | Just give us a shout when you want us to move into the dining-room . ’ |
| 13 | You want us to conform to your orthodoxy … |
| 14 | Thank you , Father , for the fellowship that you want us to enjoy in the church . |
| 15 | I want us to think for a moment about the rights and needs of all those millions of children who do not go to school , who are invisible because very often development programmes tend to ignore er their needs . |
| 16 | In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well . |
| 17 | First of all , I want us to think about how we actually use the telephone , how you talk on the telephone , what you say , and why it 's important . |
| 18 | You want us to work like dogs … |
| 19 | Who do you think they want us to look at ? |
| 20 | they 've just rehashed the old plan , and just drawn a red line round the bit they want us to look at , erm , this bit know it 's a computer . |
| 21 | Erm , I want us to get to a stage by the time you leave tomorrow afternoon , where we actually have and you have agreed a plan for your team . |
| 22 | Why it should be so in the case of the United Kingdom constitution is , again , a matter of history — and perhaps it again behoves us to bear in mind that the constitution is a process , rather than a settled state of things . |
| 23 | Erm , and then we get requests for things from the leader of the Council directly , that he wants us to respond to , the chair of that committee to erm will , will do the same thing , we 'll get requests from other departments relating to our work , some of which might of been you , we erm , the Council has a group for the finance advisory group , which is a small group of Councillor 's and officer 's that meet to discuss not in , in public session , key erm financial and other major policy erm issues that , and the reason why that group was set up , erm was that it felt like with the introduction of Poll Tax and the Local Government Housing and Finance Tax , that it needed outside the committee cycle to erm review the impact of those legislation to look at it 's finances more closely and what , and we as a policy team report into that group and get request from work from that group as well . |
| 24 | ‘ When it 's all done and Michel has made an honest woman of her , Constanza wants us to go to Rome , the three of us , and pay our respects to her papa . |
| 25 | She wants us to go to Mr . |
| 26 | Now in some respects what I think should happen , is we should , yeah we should not be negative about going on the course , but in terms of the financial implications I 'm very worried about that and I think there is a erm , there is some need for the client to say , that if he wants us to go on this course we 're happy to go on it , but that he should look seriously at financing and he plus it should have been in the tender document . |
| 27 | are rather different , if the builder wants us to borrow on their behalf , that 's one thing , whether we should borrow on our behalf , is a question that one has to . |
| 28 | And yo you 're never gon na guess what he wants us to do for our final bit of course work ? |
| 29 | For Bernstein , this is to experience the music at second hand ; he wants us to live through the emotional upheaval rather than be merely aware of its implications . |
| 30 | He wants us to account for our stewardship . |