Example sentences of "[verb] us [to-vb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utilitarianism is often thought of as challenging us to rethink the ethics of the common sense of our society . |
| 2 | Mr Fuller said : ‘ Our club only heard from him when we had discos in the club house and he phoned us to keep the noise down . ’ |
| 3 | Every incident that occurs within our circle of awareness causes us to ask the question ‘ How does this affect me ? ’ . |
| 4 | " The Foreign and Commonwealth Office want us to take a Danish biologist for two or three days next month . |
| 5 | If they want us to design a brand new one we will do it at no extra cost . |
| 6 | ‘ They want us to finance the purchase of your equipment . ’ |
| 7 | Opposition Members want us to forbid the use of that personal allowance , if only in part , for a particular purpose . |
| 8 | They want us to divorce the staff time |
| 9 | ‘ If enough of our members want us to provide an exam for them , then we should do that . |
| 10 | I mean in response to the general tone of the argument which was they want us to increase the leadership roles in the , in in local government and in in local communities and local councils we would we thought that |
| 11 | I want us to get a thoroughly good vote in this Euro constituency , by maximizing our effectiveness . |
| 12 | Do let me know if you want us to get a taxi from King 's X — or send us keys so we do n't wake you up ? ! ( 12.23 yawn … ) |
| 13 | In this talk I want us to consider an image which I believe takes us a little closer to the meaning of the cross — the image of reconciliation and representation . |
| 14 | I personally want us to win the game well , to resurrect team morale which seems halfmast at the mo . |
| 15 | ‘ Anyway , I want us to have a little talk now . |
| 16 | I want us to have a reputation for controlled , aggressive football . ’ |
| 17 | Where 's these comments that you want us to have a look at . |
| 18 | ‘ I want us to become the AC Milan of English football , ’ said the Geordies boss . |
| 19 | ‘ Woolley wants us to kill the observers , ’ Killion said . |
| 20 | We can see that God wants us to take the initiative to put things right no matter who is at fault . |
| 21 | Wants us to do a part-recorded , part-live ‘ Day in the Life of Accident and Emergency ’ thing . ’ |
| 22 | otherwise we leave it for an evening just have general , I mean if we can she wants us to do the whole twenty , she said she 'd be delighted , there was Yorkshire Television on her car keys |
| 23 | He wants us to plan a city in which the inhabitants will be expected to explore new lifestyles , to discover new ways of life appropriate to our time . |
| 24 | But before we go , he wants us to see the video of his new record . |
| 25 | It seems that the author has deliberately left things vague by choosing the intransitive verb construction : that she wants us to have the delicately ironic impression of a deferential , high-class shop in which doors , as it were , open and shut almost of their own accord . |
| 26 | ‘ So she wants us to pay a bit more attention , to think about it a bit . |
| 27 | If there was a choice of department within a region , we chose the one that gave its nurse practitioners most responsibility as we assumed that its nurse practitioners would fulfil the role most completely , enabling us to examine the role more effectively . |
| 28 | Importantly , by enabling us to see the lack of stability within textual play , deconstruction has helped bring attention to the exterior forces which attempt to control such play . |
| 29 | The difference between the 13 C of atmospheric CO 2 and leaf carbon of maize ( and certain other C4 species ) is conservative across environments and did not vary significantly with [ CO 2 ] ( B.D.M. et al. , manuscript in preparation ) , enabling us to use the 13 C of C4 leaves as a proxy for the 13 C of chamber air . |
| 30 | And we feel confirmed in this interpretation by its enabling us to answer the question , ‘ What does the word ‘ understand ’ stand for ? ’ with ‘ a mental process we have found to occur in ourselves ’ . |