Example sentences of "[verb] us [to-vb] the " 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 | ‘ They want us to finance the purchase of your equipment . ’ |
| 5 | Opposition Members want us to forbid the use of that personal allowance , if only in part , for a particular purpose . |
| 6 | They want us to divorce the staff time |
| 7 | 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 |
| 8 | I personally want us to win the game well , to resurrect team morale which seems halfmast at the mo . |
| 9 | ‘ I want us to become the AC Milan of English football , ’ said the Geordies boss . |
| 10 | ‘ Woolley wants us to kill the observers , ’ Killion said . |
| 11 | We can see that God wants us to take the initiative to put things right no matter who is at fault . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | But before we go , he wants us to see the video of his new record . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 ’ . |
| 19 | And it has the advantage of enabling us to consider the two problems associated with terms and relations in a single context . |
| 20 | The paradox is that while mathematics appears to be based on axioms rather than empirical knowledge ( although some have argued that it is rooted ultimately in the ‘ one-twoness ’ of things ) , it has nevertheless turned out to be remarkably fruitful in enabling us to understand the physical and to a lesser extent social world ; it is as if we had invented a game which turned out to be real . |
| 21 | Barclays subscribed cash for preference shares and ordinary shares representing 20% of our equity , enabling us to buy the equipment . |
| 22 | ‘ It 's enabling us to get the effects we need in blends , primarily with wool , mainly for women 's wear . |
| 23 | This applies to both the major components which the craftsman deliberately mixed together to form the final product , and also to the trace elements of which he was probably ignorant , but which can indicate the likely source of some of the materials , thus enabling us to distinguish the genuine from the spurious . |
| 24 | Alan added : ‘ While our senior managers have combined experience of over 100 years they are aged 40 and under , thus enabling us to offer the most up-to-date knowledge of shipping and air freight requirements . |
| 25 | Despite the recession this helped us to retain the vast majority of our members and welcome new ones to our ranks . |
| 26 | This helped us to maintain the dividend at 9p per share , rather than having to reduce it . |
| 27 | The existing clients helped us to raise the money and went round their relatives . |
| 28 | They helped us to transport the food . ’ |
| 29 | Despite all these obvious advantages , which lured us to follow the extremely expensive development of the project , the product had only one snag . |
| 30 | His comic-opera face contorted , his moustache drooped and he gripped his rifle with both hands to motion us to open the back of the vehicle . |