Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] us [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The BMC praised Land 's End reasonable attitude and thanked it again for allowing us all to use the car park . |
| 2 | We are also indebted to the Minister and the Whips for allowing us adequate time in which to adduce our arguments . |
| 3 | Under dangerous conditions , his chief concern is for the welfare of the film stock and equipment , whereas mine is more for keeping us both alive … |
| 4 | The water sprays off him that his mother 's screaming at him for soaking us all . |
| 5 | Why not view that skinhead ideology from a new perspective , for I think it brings us closer to understanding what motivates their hate instead of pumping us full of the old clichés about how inhuman they are … |
| 6 | That year saw England 's famous World Cup victory , and James Cossins recalled ‘ the difficulty of getting us all out of the wardrobe at the Duke of York 's — the only room with a TV set — in time for curtain up on the second house on the Saturday night that England won , and the fact that the cast were almost too hoarse to get to the end of the play . |
| 7 | Old Wolsey loved to lead people by the nose , in particular his nephew and myself , and relished his little games of sending us unarmed into darkened chambers full of assassins . |
| 8 | I 'll be writing soon to you to beg your help ( not too demanding ) in a large language-collecting project — consists of sending us any typewritten ‘ bumf ’ etc. from the school that you 'd be happy to let us have . |
| 9 | And my mum and dad thought of giving us that and my mum 's just lost her job . |
| 10 | I said if we had a maintenance on it , maintenance was thirty odd quid a year , over eight years it would of cost us two hundred and forty pound |
| 11 | We are now 7 degrees within the tropics and if the trade winds in which we got off Madeira continue we may expect to cross the equator in a week or ten days , about which time our Captn. informs us that we may expect to fall in with some homeward bound vessels which will enable me as well as the rest of our passengers to forward letters to our friends … bad weather had the effect of making us all good sailors and now we are enjoying fine weather and a fair wind . |
| 12 | We had a row with Lucas there because they had fitted fuel injection to Jimmy Clark 's Lotus , despite promising us exclusive use for the season if we persevered with it . |
| 13 | there somehow was n't anyone to shove St Edward 's in with , and they sort of left us alone . |
| 14 | Clay declared that Aunt Dottie ‘ was like to feed us all to death with this amount of food . ’ |
| 15 | Morpurgo precious near writing us both off in that bloody car crash . |
| 16 | Yet he is required to hand over his children 's future to the ‘ non-ideological ’ market forces he thinks are largely responsible for getting us all into this mess in the first place . |
| 17 | This man also promised to see about getting us some magazines and a radio . |
| 18 | First , though , give him the benefit of a voluntary defence , possibly against Alex Stewart , and then let him get on with making us all feel good about finally having another British world heavyweight champion . |
| 19 | They 're obliged to charge us a certain amount for access , but they 're talking about giving us that money back as a grant . |
| 20 | Many thanks to Pamela Vandyke Price for giving us such a memorable glimpse into the highly specialised world of the wine trade — and thanks also to those husbands and sons who allowed themselves to be pressganged into the responsible task of pouring the samples ! |
| 21 | Okay , I think that 's erm a good example , thank you very much for joining us this morning . |
| 22 | They try to keep everyone happy , but somehow succeed in annoying us all . |
| 23 | People working in these professions often take pleasure in describing a sales campaign in which surplus stocks of milk were dispersed by persuading the public that it had a taste for a new mass product , such as yoghurt , or in reminding us that ploughman 's lunches could be invented to persuade a new group to patronize pubs . |
| 24 | Alan got a message for you all the stewards and secretaries within Pilkingtons and also the A E U , M S F and the T & G thanks very much for the initiative you 've in getting us all together and the initiative you 've took in getting us part of the European set-up company Pilkingtons , at this present time are very negative . |
| 25 | PC Pick said : ‘ The Freeman Hospital have been exceptionally good in giving us two heart valves to take over . ’ |
| 26 | It is a prayer , but I thank the Chairman of the Joint Committee on Statutory Instruments for his courtesy in giving us that information , which I am sure will be much appreciated by the House . |
| 27 | But we er are welcoming the fact that there is a recognition of the rising population of Wales er in giving us this er this additional seat er primarily the additional population has not come in industrial South Wales which er er which er people think of perhaps as the most typically Welsh area , it 's actually in two counties of Clwyd and Dyfed that are erm growing most rapidly because of lifestyle migration , retirement migration erm into those two areas and that is why the additional seat , if you can put it that way , er takes from all the other four of course , is is the mid and West Wales seat which has been compared by the honourable member for Cornwall er tonight and it has only got a population of four hundred and one thousand but on the other hand of course it is such an extensive seat because the population sparsity in that area is much , much worse than even in Cornwall and therefore it is going to stretch from South of Milford Haven to the Llanrwst area really within probably twenty miles of the North Wales coast , it 's a who it 's the whole of two counties plus one additional very badly populated constituency erm in in the county of Gwynedd , an awkward constituency but one that we are certainly looking forward fighting and winning to give us the five out of five er now that er the boundaries are going through tonight and obviously it 's all in line really er to look at the other , the third order of course , the question of the registration of overseas voters in the nineteen ninety two election overseas voters had their first opportunity to participate in Westminster elections . |
| 28 | But in giving us this faith , he does n't go with a , a picking order into the warehouse of heaven , a and look there up all the great pallets and boxes of faith , or boxes of love , or boxes and cartons of peace , and say right , there 's one , I 'll give that to you . |
| 29 | When the time came to close the office , he took great pleasure in posting us all as far away from our homes as he possibly could . |
| 30 | Furthermore , this is probably one of those cases where social psychoanalysis can succeed in telling us more about this primitive superego-structure than can the clinical analysis of modern individuals unaided by cultural insights . |