Example sentences of "[vb base] [to-vb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Now they want to invite us to a football match at the next sales conference at Brighton in January . |
| 3 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Our dominant motivations are those of rational self-interest and they tend to lead us into crime because crime , however defined , involves self-restraint . |
| 6 | First important question : how many of the young people contrive to alert us to their cultural soundness by working ‘ motherf—er ’ into their interpretations ? |
| 7 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | ‘ People try to take us for a ride from time to time . |
| 15 | turn to salute us across the years … |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Foster 's review is particularly good on the deficiencies of theorizations which fail to provide us with : |
| 18 | Well if you 've got if you 've got sixteen units of space , if you come over with effectively , sixteen units of your , you know , agree to supply us with . |
| 19 | I am prepared to forget all that if you agree to join us for a stroll on this fine summer 's day . ’ |
| 20 | Many fine details — beautiful 16thcentury wooden ceilings , 15th-century painted glass , and a grand fireplace in the presence chamber — remain to remind us of this original purpose . |
| 21 | Meester Northcliffe 's friend , you no come to see us for an age . |
| 22 | Because you come to meet us in your Mass |
| 23 | If we go from that to the earnings , there 's another erm , er , slide to take us through that . |
| 24 | If we choose not to include the lasting works in the lonely mountains , only church registers survive to remind us of this remarkable facet of Keswick , and indeed Coniston 's , past history . |
| 25 | Bede 's commentary on aspects of seventh-century English life reflects the nature and extent of the traffic of gifts , particularly between royalty and senior members of the Christian Church ; the items and the materials serve to remind us of some of the primitive valuables seen in the pagan graves . |
| 26 | John Bums , President of the Local Government Board , when introducing the first legislation with ‘ town planning ’ in its title in 1909 declared : These objectives may seem happily optimistic when contrasted with subsequent achievements , but they serve to remind us of the tension that always exists in town planning between the engineers and the sociologists ( Goldsmith 1980:Ch. 7 ) . |
| 27 | You see when the erm legislation changes shortly , well the legislation is there but when it 's enacted erm they they will become responsible for repairing after their own hole digging and they have to provide us with guarantees . |
| 28 | If you care to join us in this venture please send your contribution ( in round pounds please ) to Stella Webb , 14 Conyerd Road , Borough Green Kent within two weeks of receiving these notes . |