Example sentences of "[verb] us [vb infin] [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 Let us modify text ( 8 ) slightly
2 So many detrimental things are written and said about our youth that for once let us give praise where it is due .
3 This spreading effect means that insurance risk is often confused with Broadway risk , A corporation that says , " let us spread the-risk by not putting all our eggs in one basket " is using neither type of risk effectively .
4 If the London Bureau can only provide circumstantial evidence , let us head north of the border to Edinburgh University and the chair of Britain 's first Professor of Parapsychology .
5 ‘ So let us talk money , Capitano . ’
6 Let us blow smoke at each other , you and I.
7 Let us blow smoke at each other , you and I. Smoke gets in your eyes , your green eyes , my icy love .
8 Let us drink time .
9 Then God said , Let us make man in our image , in our likeness , and let them rule … over all the earth …
10 ‘ In the beginning ’ there were no people on earth and God said , ‘ Let us make man in our image , ’ that is , like ourselves .
11 ‘ Oh , come on , Joan — let us make haste , ’ said Anne crossly .
12 JERVIS : Prithee my girl , let us make haste to bed .
13 Let us return life for death , Karen , good for evil .
14 Let us rest content for the moment with this definition of public law , and ask why a distinction is drawn between public and private law .
15 I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality .
16 G. S. Saxton thought that cattle stealing was ‘ indulged in as pure mischief , as naughty boys used to wrench off knockers … . the idea being ‘ Here is our enemy 's bull , let us eat it' ’ . '
17 Let us examine type ( a ) in a little more detail .
18 Focussing on one tiny segment of the statistics of abundance , let us examine corporation presidents and millionaires .
19 Let the Americans play their closed shop Open and US PGA , let them have their biased cries and catcalls , but please let us remember sportsmanship and let the best man win .
20 Let us consider watercress as a typical example of how easy it is to be deceived .
21 Let us consider democracy in local government and the three Secretaries of State for the Environment who have had a go at local government taxation .
22 Let us develop node 3 , that is , solve LP3 .
23 Let us have warmth as well as dignity , smiles alongside the serious , and joy at the heart of it all .
24 For God 's sake , let us have peace . ’
25 Our captors let us have water and smoke cigarettes .
26 " Let us have tea on the lawn again ! " shouted the Collector from the window , but no one paid any attention to him .
27 Let us have tea . ’
28 Let us imagine boxing without the masculinity .
29 Let us use SENSE to refer to the basic logical , conceptual , paraphrasable meaning , and SIGNIFICANCE to refer to the total of what is communicated to the world by a given sentence or text .
30 So let us convert eqn ( 2.2 ) as well .
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