Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] us [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In Luxor we hired a felucca with two crewmen to take us the 120 miles by river to Aswan . |
| 2 | A small investment — for INCUBUS — in certain companies to give us a toehold inside me Common Market . |
| 3 | While the rest of the card world attempts to move on by using humour or Snoopy dogs to sell us the festive season , charity Christmas cards remain as old-fashioned , tedious and unimaginative as they have always been . |
| 4 | We also use targets to give us a sense of achievement . |
| 5 | In his Reith lectures , broadcast in 1991 and now published as a book , he has set aside his snails to give us a glimpse of human evolution through his geneticist 's eye . |
| 6 | Information is relevant when it has a significant effect on our assumptions : in other words , when it will allow us to alter our knowledge structures to give us a more accurate representation of the world . |
| 7 | We need three or four decent players to give us a chance of getting promoted . ’ |
| 8 | Yes , I think it 's just to follow on from that erm about trusting children to give us the sort of clues that we need to be able to respond to , very often they do that in ways that are not directly associated perhaps with the anxiety that 's around , so that they may be expressing their anxiety by just generally difficult behaviour or by wetting the bed at night , or maybe being quite disruptive in their play , or provoking other children , and adults who are able to see that sort of behaviour as useful for information for us , so that we can respond appropriately , not out of anger and a erm judgemental sort of response , but in a way that we can support their anxiety by by not getting over excited and + and erm responding in a very aggressive way to the very aggression that they 're expressing as a result of their anxiety . |
| 9 | Tony and I dig a platform for the tent , lowering the snow by about seventy centimetres to give us a nice protective wall . |
| 10 | We were taken to the chief who instructed four young boys to show us the path up to the top . |
| 11 | But we need birds to show us the flight to the south . |
| 12 | I , I think it was only a drop in the ocean really towards the national effort , but , but I remember erm at Darlaston , they used to build tanks over there and they , they used to pay us visits in sometimes they 'd send some of their men over in the tanks to give us a pep talk about the war effort and all that but er , they used to do things like that then to gee you up erm |
| 13 | Our bodies are continually manufacturing chemicals to make us the smelly creatures nature intended us to be . |