Example sentences of "[verb] us [vb infin] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Sister Constance , who was the then the principal sister there she let us have the field so we got entertainment laid on we invited a celebrity , I think our first celebrity was erm I think it was Lord and Lady and then each time we had a different one , we had entertainment the whole time we started , about half past two and then we had entertainment until six then we had an interval then we had entertainment till twelve o'clock I even took my piano down onto the field so that we could have music . |
| 2 | Caddis houses helped us take the previous step ; snail shells will help us take this one . |
| 3 | If you ca n't get more heat up there , let us move the games room down a few floors . " |
| 4 | ‘ But come … let us feed the fish . |
| 5 | Let us clear the alternatives out of the way ; while they are often brought into discussions on the best methods of sharing knowledge with undergraduates , they have but limited scope , and there is no doubt that you must learn to handle lectures as the first step towards a fruitful co-operation with the staff at your college . |
| 6 | Let us disregard the moral overtones which are irrelevant anyway to the concept of lying ( what makes lying bad is what is bad about what makes it lying ) . |
| 7 | Let us analyse the fruit flies experiment more carefully . |
| 8 | Now let us review the symbols we have learnt to use in our " Set Language " . |
| 9 | Let us chart the way by which we arrive at the Fundamental Principle . |
| 10 | Let us assume the player is unsure where to begin ; he knows only that his chord playing is below par and wishes to improve it . |
| 11 | Let us assume the client only has £70 in retirement and works pensions . |
| 12 | So you either either sell back to our sixteen units of poles and let us stay the night , or come back again tomorrow . |
| 13 | Let us confront the matter . |
| 14 | Let us give the report no more publicity , it does not deserve it . |
| 15 | Let us remind the Labour Party that they should be attacking this useless Tory government , not supporting them , not voting with them , not supporting them by abstaining when necessary we 'll never get power that way ! |
| 16 | Turning now to the representatives of old age who actually believe age is an automatic disqualifier , let us scrutinise the sorts of replies , among which this was typical : ‘ Capability should be the main criteria ( sic ) , but 70 years of age should be the limit . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ On second thoughts , let us finish the business in hand . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ First , let us forget the murders — Selkirk , Ruthven , Irvine and now Oswald . |
| 19 | Let us await the outcome of your reunion with this boy you love . ’ |
| 20 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 21 | Let us leave the last word to Nietzsche , whose cruel intelligence is quickened only by the taste of bitter truths . |
| 22 | To drive this point home , let us leave the Zande for a moment and consider the following experience of a research student working in the Cameroon Republic . |
| 23 | One candidate is the duet ‘ Come let us leave the town ’ — the first vocal number in the theatre score , though it is not in the 1692 word-book : it is the first piece of ‘ new musick ’ in Q1693 . |
| 24 | We have already discussed Act 1 , in which Q1692 contains no cue for ‘ Come let us leave the town ’ and the Drunken Poet scene . |
| 25 | At the outset , let us distinguish the different types of disputes , dealt with by the courts that have greater or lesser political relevance . |
| 26 | For the moment , let us ignore the modern specialised approach and concentrate on tackling a typical carp lake which will allow you to fish it in whatever style you choose . |
| 27 | For the moment let us ignore the exchange rate and concentrate on changes in the rate of interest . |
| 28 | Let us start the analysis . |
| 29 | Let us make the fourth choice — which actual apartments you 'll be staying in — and you 'll find yourself with a whole lot more holiday spending money into the bargain . |
| 30 | In order to obtain the B-H curve let us make the following experiment . |