Example sentences of "[to-vb] we [to-vb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His comic-opera face contorted , his moustache drooped and he gripped his rifle with both hands to motion us to open the back of the vehicle . |
| 2 | The result is to cause us to love the theatre : ‘ the play recuperates and intensifies our need for these ceremonies , even though we do not believe in them , and performs them , carefully marked out for us as frauds , for our continued consumption ’ . |
| 3 | ‘ As I 've said before , it 's not really realistic to expect us to win the league but the others have to try to catch us first . |
| 4 | Roy Parker closes the book by reiterating the case for research : stressing that its ultimate purpose must be to help us to improve the quality of life of children generally and of some of the most disadvantaged in particular . |
| 5 | In this discussion , however , we have found it necessary to turn to ‘ real-time ’ evidence ( Patterson , 1860 ; Staples , 1898 ) in order to help us to locate the direction of change . |
| 6 | In any event , whatever the possible therapeutic role of such drugs , they are unlikely to be able to help us to understand the intimate mechanisms of memory . |
| 7 | B T say the same , that for twenty years the firm was in deficit and both managements put in much more than the Trust Deed says to keep us to keep the fund afloat . |
| 8 | In particular , I ask my right hon. Friend to find time next week to allow us to pursue the role played by Mr. Joe Haines , sometime press officer of a Labour Prime Minister , an executive director of Mirror Group Newspapers — |
| 9 | Could the debate be held in Government time to allow us to congratulate the people who work in those facilities and the GPs who are now strongly supporting the reforms ? |
| 10 | ‘ When I said that this was necessary to allow us to cross the Great Sea , ’ Alexei said , ‘ I spoke no more than the truth . |
| 11 | They detained us , refusing even to allow us to re-cross the river and continue our journey on the other side . |
| 12 | It was just after Nixon fired Dick Helms and was dumping all over the Company to get us to take the rap for Watergate and Congress was hearing words like assassination and setting up committees and … like everybody was pissing into our bathtub and hoping to stir up a U-boat . |
| 13 | The City Editor of your sister newspaper showed the greater insight when , in April 1989 , he opined : ‘ It [ the Government ] tries to get us to swallow the ridiculous story that [ water ] privatisation is good for consumers , rather than merely for executives . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ But we had managers who were trying to get us to play the steak houses of LA , which is like a trip to nowhere , and yet there was this cult thing growing on the East Coast and in the South , and it turned out that by the time we joined Fleetwood Mac we were headlining in our own right to five thousand people in the South and East , but totally starving in LA ! |
| 15 | We stopped for a few hours in Aberdeen , long enough to allow Father to take us to see the house we had lived in until 1939 : Stranathro , at Muchalls , perched high on the cliffs by the road to Stonehaven . |
| 16 | and then , before Vera could reply , she went on : ‘ When are you going to take us to see the ship ? |
| 17 | Erm and certainly I think I think in going to neighbourhood panels it was it was to serve a democratic process of tenants being able to panels local to their that area and I think in that sense erm it has been successful and certainly , I think as far as we were concerned er , it avoids the perhaps intimidating nature of , of tenants appearing in a large centre of the various panel which er I think was er , certainly one of the members wishes when we started on a neighbourhood basis but , yes it was our intention and , I would think that it 's quite reasonable to ask us to bring the report to the next meeting er with a better explanation of how the council works so far . |
| 18 | ‘ To ask us to approach the ACU in Britain about an alternative date seems totally contrary to the accepted procedures . |
| 19 | ‘ I ca n't wait to see shear waters again , ’ I said brightly to the Warden when he came to check that we understood about Calor gas , to remind us to boil the drinking water and to tell us the exact procedure of what to do if we fell down a cliff . |
| 20 | In view of the number of military establishments underused and basically secure , should not we use those — and , if need be , make use of military personnel , too — to enable us to stop the amazing amount of re-offending by those on non-custodial sentences ? |
| 21 | It is important to us to maintain and seek to improve those ratings to enable us to minimise the cost of our borrowings . |
| 22 | For our pay rounds we now create APL programs to model the types of offers we may make to enable us to assess the costs and effectiveness of different strategies ( as in figure 13 ) . |
| 23 | The opening of a poem is obviously important because there is no previous discourse through which to interpret it except for the title , but this is not precise enough to enable us to assign the proper indexical meaning to the deictic elements and terms . |
| 24 | However , the difference between the systems of property rights in countries such as Britain , America , Germany , Hong Kong and Indonesia on the one hand and Russia , East Germany , Vietnam and China , is still sufficiently great to enable us to label the former capitalist and the latter socialist . |
| 25 | The Association 's main activities continued to be welfare , housing and fund-raising to enable us to provide the facilities , the support and the companionship that a caring membership has always regarded as of paramount importance . |
| 26 | ‘ However , we will continue with the appeal to raise money to enable us to run the scanner . |
| 27 | It is chiefly in the realms of historical context , social customs and economic arrangements that we must have specialist knowledge of the context to enable us to interpret the passage accurately . |
| 28 | Presumably there are adaptive strategies to enable us to endure the unendurable . |
| 29 | These are only some of the landmarks in the deregulation process but they are enough to enable us to understand the Governor 's argument . |
| 30 | Unfortunately there is all too little evidence from Britain to enable us to discern the precise nature of the relationship between the small towns and authority , although some tentative suggestions can be made . |