Example sentences of "[vb base] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The morning shift meet us in the office . |
| 2 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 3 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 4 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 5 | If members have done something interesting or have a fascinating or unusual hobby and want to tell us about it perhaps letting us borrow a photograph of the member ? ) they are welcome to write — quoting membership number please . |
| 6 | Our dominant motivations are those of rational self-interest and they tend to lead us into crime because crime , however defined , involves self-restraint . |
| 7 | First important question : how many of the young people contrive to alert us to their cultural soundness by working ‘ motherf—er ’ into their interpretations ? |
| 8 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 9 | It is only when the parents begin telling us about the brilliance of their own revolting offspring , that we start shouting , ‘ Bring us a basin ! |
| 10 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 11 | It will have to be for us at least twenty one days , that 's the absolute rock bottom minimum I would have thought therefore the French I suspect have us over a barrel and we would have to cough up for the enormous expenditure of an extra building at Strasbourg which is not needed erm as I understand it er that er view I savoured I do n't erm have the details of that . |
| 12 | The problems with unwanted feelings are that they tend to hinder us in the here and now even though the feelings are often associated with past or future events . |
| 13 | This attitude is understandable , and slimming experts who drearily continue to tell us to ‘ be satisfied just to lose weight slowly : half a pound a week is enough ’ have little or no understanding of human psychology . |
| 14 | Consequently , in order to provide more accurate information , we have re-designed the ‘ Sponsorship Opportunities ’ form which you use to provide us with the information for the back page . |
| 15 | Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December . |
| 16 | There is a couple in north London who keep presenting us with ‘ new ’ organisations . |
| 17 | ‘ Over here , ’ considers Tim , ‘ they keep asking us about Manchester and the Hacienda , or the drugs . |
| 18 | ‘ Over , they keep asking us about Manchester and the Hacienda , or the drug.s I do n't want to talk about it , too many people want to go on about it — but then the Americans seem to think that The Sundays are part of the Manchester thing as well ’ — TIM BURGESS |
| 19 | ‘ Over here , ’ considers Tim , ‘ they keep asking us about Manchester and the Hacienda , or the drugs . |
| 20 | ‘ Over , they keep asking us about Manchester and the Hacienda , or the drug.s I do n't want to talk about it , too many people want to go on about it — but then the Americans seem to think that The Sundays are part of the Manchester thing as well ’ — TIM BURGESS |
| 21 | We can distinguish sceptical arguments which , although they attempt to deprive us of knowledge ( or even of justified belief ) still allow that we understand the propositions whose truth we are no longer allowed to know , from those which claim that the reason why we do n't know their truth is that we can not understand them . |
| 22 | ‘ People try to take us for a ride from time to time . |
| 23 | He said : ‘ The West and the Americans keep telling us to be realistic . |
| 24 | They keep telling us about this poll tax , they 've got to cut the staff and then they decide that they 're going to give this man this money . |
| 25 | turn to salute us across the years … |
| 26 | In Chapter ii we found that a good deal of social science has been informed by this view ; but it is nevertheless natural to wonder why individualism should be excluded from the group of disciplines that aim to provide us with a grasp of the social world . |
| 27 | Foster 's review is particularly good on the deficiencies of theorizations which fail to provide us with : |
| 28 | ‘ Blessed art Thou , O Lord our God , King of the Universe , who hast sanctified us with Thy commandments , and hast commanded us to make our sons enter into the covenant of Abraham our Father . ’ |
| 29 | We 're off to Scarborough to see the bakery busy preparing edible Pudsey Bears especially for Children in Need only just over a week away now and Jill Pattenden our woman 's health expert is in we 'll be talking about cervical smear tests and Jill can help you with period problems pregnancy child birth menopause contraception do ring us from eleven . |
| 30 | We hope you find the current issue still of interest and we plan to keep up the good work during the coming year seeking out happenings/events/ stories to retell for you , but as it is your newspaper do contact us with your own ideas and suggestions at any time . |