Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] we [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | He is also firmly committed to proactive management : ‘ This is n't the kind of business environment in which we can set targets and expect something to happen , and we 're not waiting for an economic turnaround to provide us with the kind of results we want to turn in . |
2 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
3 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
4 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
5 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
6 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
7 | It helps a great deal to keep us in touch with what 's happening at school and enables us to exert some influence , I suppose , on what happens in schools , hopefully in the interests of the candidates . |
8 | The Data System is just part of a massive development programme to keep us in front and to offer our clients the best licensed taxi service there is . |
9 | Codemasters ' director David Darling said : ‘ The fact that Sega has chosen to wait to sue until just before our commercial launch shows this is a blatant attempt to keep us from the market they control . ’ |
10 | We had only to go for a walk through the empty streets and someone would appear in a doorway to invite us for dinner . |
11 | ‘ So long as he still has silver to pay us with , ’ Flodwig said . |
12 | Instead of ribs , the machine has a canvas roof to shield us from the weather , and although one can peer out through slits here and there , the effect is of travelling in a closed world , like an outsize gypsy wagon . |
13 | had about half a day about there , waiting for boat to take us across to France . |
14 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
15 | In future the programme will run from one January to the next , therefore this year four terms have been included in the programme to take us to January 1991 . |
16 | Again , all the boys are circumcised according to tradition , and we do not need to flash the penis to prove us to be nice , Jewish boys . |
17 | Last Wednesday we invited the 4 British students studying at the University to visit us at the hotel for dinner . |
18 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
19 | It might be worth booking a coach to carry us between access points . |
20 | You are required by law to provide us with the following information : — |
21 | This was that if we did n't take part in the inquiry , then it would be easy for the pro-nuclear lobby to accuse us of ignoring democracy , throwing up the chance to have our say , implying that our case was too weak to risk exposure . |
22 | Despite these facts there may be a case for a short-term course of tablets , or the occasional use of a tablet to help us through a particularly difficult situation and to help build confidence . |
23 | There is a need to recognise and further consider the position of male carers , while not using this issue to deflect us from the more general issues which arise for women through entrenched assumptions that this is their ‘ natural ’ role . |
24 | Mr Randall says : ‘ We will show the greater detail required by the Charities Act , but there is nothing under law to force us to . |
25 | Mr Randall says : ‘ We will show the greater detail required by the Charities Act , but there is nothing under law to force us to . |
26 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
27 | Can you possibly , to oblige an old friend , lay on an engine and one coach to get us to Regina tonight ? |
28 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
29 | ‘ Take these gold coins and go , beg your lady to join us at Inverkeithing . |
30 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |