Example sentences of "[vb base] us [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They want us to finance the purchase of your equipment . ’ |
| 2 | Opposition Members want us to forbid the use of that personal allowance , if only in part , for a particular purpose . |
| 3 | They want us to divorce the staff time |
| 4 | I mean in response to the general tone of the argument which was they want us to increase the leadership roles in the , in in local government and in in local communities and local councils we would we thought that |
| 5 | I personally want us to win the game well , to resurrect team morale which seems halfmast at the mo . |
| 6 | ‘ I want us to become the AC Milan of English football , ’ said the Geordies boss . |
| 7 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 8 | They do n't give us anything , but still expect us to pay the poll tax . ’ |
| 9 | But they expect us to keep the place open for ‘ em . |
| 10 | If you ca n't get more heat up there , let us move the games room down a few floors . " |
| 11 | ‘ But come … let us feed the fish . |
| 12 | Let us clear the alternatives out of the way ; while they are often brought into discussions on the best methods of sharing knowledge with undergraduates , they have but limited scope , and there is no doubt that you must learn to handle lectures as the first step towards a fruitful co-operation with the staff at your college . |
| 13 | Let us disregard the moral overtones which are irrelevant anyway to the concept of lying ( what makes lying bad is what is bad about what makes it lying ) . |
| 14 | Let us analyse the fruit flies experiment more carefully . |
| 15 | Now let us review the symbols we have learnt to use in our " Set Language " . |
| 16 | Let us chart the way by which we arrive at the Fundamental Principle . |
| 17 | Let us assume the player is unsure where to begin ; he knows only that his chord playing is below par and wishes to improve it . |
| 18 | Let us assume the client only has £70 in retirement and works pensions . |
| 19 | So you either either sell back to our sixteen units of poles and let us stay the night , or come back again tomorrow . |
| 20 | Let us confront the matter . |
| 21 | Let us give the report no more publicity , it does not deserve it . |
| 22 | Let us remind the Labour Party that they should be attacking this useless Tory government , not supporting them , not voting with them , not supporting them by abstaining when necessary we 'll never get power that way ! |
| 23 | Turning now to the representatives of old age who actually believe age is an automatic disqualifier , let us scrutinise the sorts of replies , among which this was typical : ‘ Capability should be the main criteria ( sic ) , but 70 years of age should be the limit . ’ |
| 24 | ‘ On second thoughts , let us finish the business in hand . ’ |
| 25 | ‘ First , let us forget the murders — Selkirk , Ruthven , Irvine and now Oswald . |
| 26 | Let us await the outcome of your reunion with this boy you love . ’ |
| 27 | Let us leave the last words with Walter Abish who declares that ‘ the innovative novel is , in essence , a novel of disfamiliarization , a novel that has ceased to concern itself with the mapping of the ‘ familiar ’ world ’ ( Martin 1983 : 238 ) . |
| 28 | Let us leave the last word to Nietzsche , whose cruel intelligence is quickened only by the taste of bitter truths . |
| 29 | To drive this point home , let us leave the Zande for a moment and consider the following experience of a research student working in the Cameroon Republic . |
| 30 | One candidate is the duet ‘ Come let us leave the town ’ — the first vocal number in the theatre score , though it is not in the 1692 word-book : it is the first piece of ‘ new musick ’ in Q1693 . |