Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I must point out that this is not the correct way to stand , it is merely an exercise to demonstrate that we can not rely upon our feelings alone to inform us about what we are doing to ourselves . |
| 2 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 3 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 4 | Certainly so far as we are concerned we would completely recognise your position and we are in fact , since your position is shared by several other experts in their respective fields who have been good enough to assist us in this venture , doing our very best to see that the names of those who are taking part in the policy study groups do not become public property . |
| 5 | Whenever I go in a minicab on my way to a radio or television programme — the companies are kind enough to take us in a car — I end up discussing with the driver how he has come to Britain in the fairly recent past and now has a job driving round London . |
| 6 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 7 | Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time . |
| 8 | Here and there Pippo dropped a bomb , but hardly ever on a village ; he came out of sheer perversity , we felt , just to rob us of our sleep . |
| 9 | So do you think that erm when this law was erm pushed through in nineteen forty seven that er perhaps Mao you know well I think there 's been a bit of excess now , I think we 'll do some we just need , we just need a bit of a rush now just to take us through a bit and then we 'll stop it in a few months time . |
| 10 | Perhaps there are Leicester citizens who will feel just a little sorry if the bird we all love to hate were ever banished ; no longer to amaze us with squabbling antics in the garden , purposeful flight lines at the end of day , noisy pre-roost assemblies — and starling spectaculars at dusk . |
| 11 | Trees return once more to help us in this endeavour . |
| 12 | While the Secretary of State has tried to assure the House about the problems and implications of recognition of Croatia , will he try once more to reassure us about that recognition ? |
| 13 | Well , the work of the Spirit in the believer is supremely to transform us from one degree of glory to another : that is to say , to make us more and more like Christ . |
| 14 | So what could be done both to protect us from crime and to make us less fearful ? |
| 15 | Two big Chicago House DJs are rumoured to be rolling up later to take us into town . |
| 16 | I have made this broad but brief review of the development of provision for special needs partly to remind us of how much improvement has been achieved and also as a background to the rest of the paper . |
| 17 | With Mel Blyth alongside and John Jackson in goal , John was part of the triumvirate who did most to keep us in Division one for four seasons . |
| 18 | Wrangham 's work goes far to provide us with the essential spatial structuring that underlies this flexibility . |
| 19 | You may walk with me like a civilised man if you care to , but I warn you there 'll be an archer behind to keep us in view , so 1 would n't advise you to try any tricks , they 'd do you no good . ’ |
| 20 | It was intended purely to acquaint us with a field of art historical research to which we had very limited access and to give us the opportunity of establishing a dialogue . |
| 21 | Please remember though to ask us before going overdrawn . |
| 22 | The fog stayed with us throughout the night as we made painfully slow progress towards Hartlepool with bedtime stories on the radio of ships colliding and running aground to cheer us on our way . |
| 23 | " I told them three days before we can finish repairs , " he told us , " but we can do enough tomorrow to hold us to Banda , if weather is good . " |
| 24 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 25 | Derkinderen and Crum do well to remind us of this , but it does not really invalidate the portfolio-grid approach . |
| 26 | ‘ They worked hard to get us into Europe and now there 's no perk for them . |
| 27 | Neither does the statement , ‘ All those coloured glass pictures of people which you see in the windows of churches , have been put there to remind us of the good which those people did during their lives . |
| 28 | We 'll wait for the lads up there to tell us about the blood and we 'll read the autopsy report . |
| 29 | After a while we appeared to stop accelerating in this nose-high stance — and of course we could no longer clearly see where we were going , so I eased the yoke forward to lift us onto the step . |
| 30 | Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling . |