Example sentences of "[prep] we [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But anyway , I do n't think they came after us just to get their little fee . ’ |
| 2 | It would have been parochial of us not to have mentioned it as it is still used in many other countries . |
| 3 | They do n't know anything about life , so they come and tell the rest of us how to live it . ’ |
| 4 | It was he who taught some of us how to use a .38 calibre revolver when we went hiking on the rolling prairies for shooting competitions , with gophers or tin cans as our main targets . |
| 5 | Enough has been revealed about the antics of the Monarchy in the past few weeks to suggest that people in palaces should not be trying to tell the rest of us how to behave . |
| 6 | Accountants would always be kept busy showing the rest of us how to work the system . |
| 7 | it was being reorganized and the lady who did it could n't do it any more and would one of us like to take the |
| 8 | None of us like to go in poorly lit areas , it automatically raises our fear level does n't it ? |
| 9 | I was speaking to somebody about this er , a few days ago , and you know they said erm I said , in a way that does n't really apply today , because none of us like to think we 're bad . |
| 10 | Most of us like to feel that we can join in and we can progress if we want to . |
| 11 | From our point of view we 're not in the position and it would be totally wrong of us actually to try in public to deal with those or to come to a specific conclusion about any particular proposal . |
| 12 | ‘ Another 45,000 guerrillas have secret protocols with us not to fight . ’ |
| 13 | We therefore , sir , have before us today to consider these two sites , D thirty nine and D forty , in the context of the relevant and duly-made objections that have been made , and they are the simple question is , should these sites be in the within the greenbelt or within the inset . |
| 14 | But it 's up to us now to sweeten it before the actual vote otherwise they 're just gon na throw their ballot papers away , they 're not even gon na bother voting . |
| 15 | And it is for us surely to open ourselves without prejudice to the shape that it will take in the future . |
| 16 | But clearly it is another factor that would make it the less satisfactory for us simply to refuse the application without more . |
| 17 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
| 18 | Do you do you not think it would be better for us both to speak to ? speak to her and say obviously you were upset about not getting the job but this non- communication thing is not really erm going to you know be good for the sales office in the long term . |
| 19 | It is difficult for us today to enter fully into the power that those ancient rituals must have generated , but anyone who has attended a religious revival meeting with its emphasis on repentance , tears and rebirth is in touch with the same forces . |
| 20 | Now , if Edinburgh District want to talk to us about Ingleston , and we do n't want to upset them , we 'll talk to them , but it would have to be an in , and enormous financial attraction for us even to consider that . |
| 21 | ‘ That , of course , obviates the need for us even to attempt to detect or frame coherent theories of motivation . |
| 22 | Yeah I think on the er i it is n't for us here to decide the level of contributions . |
| 23 | ‘ Ever since I have been here the fans have kept talking about the derby — and pleading for us not to lose it . |
| 24 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 25 | The time is not right for us seriously to consider the proposition . |
| 26 | And it 's an opportunity for her and me to say a couple of words to us , and for us certainly to thank her very much for her service . |
| 27 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 28 | yet without answers to these questions and others like them , it is impossible for us fully to understand our own history and , more importantly , impossible to advise today 's emergent nations on the routes they should be following . |
| 29 | I see no reason for us actually to go through the whole pros and cons . |
| 30 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |