Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [conj] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oh course I can Erm there was a game that we called er Tin Lurky You probably wo n't well you never hear that expression now and er we used to get this old t any tin can and er you somebody would kick it you see and er the one that was sort of one used to have to fur and fetch this tin an bring it back again and then was should all hide , sounds a daft silly game , I know , but this one had to find us and the first one he found it was his turn next to fetch the tin and then find us again . |
| 2 | Not only has science failed to solve all our problems , it is increasingly viewed as a monster which threatens to destroy us and the planet . |
| 3 | He would love to split us and the Americans and to complicate our inter-Commonwealth relations . ’ |
| 4 | In Shrewsbury our lord abbot has given orders to seek out all those who came to help us when the river rose into the church . |
| 5 | A second argument has traditionally been used to reassure us that the economic power derived from the ownership of property is subject to constraints . |
| 6 | First , experience does nothing to reassure us that the Government will use the powers they have taken to themselves to interfere with the untrammelled workings of the market place . |
| 7 | ‘ The protective measures taken by the ‘ experienced ’ Shetland oil industry have been used to reassure us that the environmental risks associated with this industry are now minimal . |
| 8 | But the U.S. has space and a welcome for even more of us : with travel and tourism its third-largest retail industry , the ailing American economy can not afford to leave it up to our own tour firms to persuade us that the time — and price — is right . |
| 9 | Mr. Levy , for J. 's parents , sought to persuade us that the particular order here could be justified because it was only an interim order , designed to ‘ hold ’ the situation for a short period until a full hearing . |
| 10 | What we need in the present case is further evidence to persuade us that the proposal to distinguish ordinary attributives as ( 37 ) ( a ) and postnominal attributives as ( 37 ) ( c ) goes beyond the mere possibility of correlating the two intensional patterns to the two different surface constructions . |
| 11 | Nevertheless , he thought it necessary , and we agree , in the context of this case , to attempt to satisfy us that the United Kingdom is not in any event in breach of the Convention . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ We are very concerned at these incidents and we would appeal to anyone with any information to contact us or the police before an animal is killed . ’ |
| 13 | Why should n't there be tough energy efficiency standards to protect us and the environment from unnecessary pollution , ’ said Mr Smith . |
| 14 | But attempts to convince us that the eating of meat and fish is an evil invasion of the inalienable rights of animals and that it should cease forthwith are a sham . |
| 15 | Although the government has gone to great lengths ( £1 million spent on marketing the proposals ( in an attempt to convince us that the NHS will still remain a National Health Service and will still be free to those requiring health care the proposals clearly spell the future of a health service which will move away from being a public tax funded service to a two tier service , with those who ca n't afford to pay on the bottom level receiving inadequate and cash starved services . |
| 16 | So now goat keepers are hoping to convince us that the meat is both tasty and nutritious . |
| 17 | The tables are turning now , though , with even George Bush making TV advertisements to remind us that The Big Country is waiting with open tills for our holiday spending money . |
| 18 | Debbie sports a Medicine shirt , to remind us that the difficult West Coast noiseniks were once to play Rollercoaster , but would 've had to go on at about three in the afternoon to meet some venues ' childish curfews . |
| 19 | First , and parenthetically , it serves to remind us that the difference between the interests underlying individualism and holism is not merely the difference between showing why something happened to happen and why it had to happen , and thus between descriptive and counterfactual forms of explanation . |
| 20 | So too , if we consult the Report of Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Constabulary , 1975 ( or almost any other year for that matter ) we find ourselves assailed within the space of only a few paragraphs with repeated references to The report was generous enough to remind us that the personal violence over which so much ink had been spilled amounted to less than 4 per cent of known serious crime . |
| 21 | Because , if the supposedly traditional habit of respect for the law was not much in evidence here , then frequent headlines such as ‘ Boot 'em ’ at Waterloo ’ , ‘ They Play Football with a Man ’ and ‘ Kick a Man like a Football ’ serve to remind us that the English ‘ fair play ’ tradition of fighting with the fists — and not with the feet — had also gone into eclipse . |
| 22 | It serves to remind us that the collapse of the old political certitudes in Eastern Europe and the awakening of new political alternatives to market capitalism are precisely of a piece with the erasure of the old artistic ‘ avant-garde ’ and the ceaseless searching for the ‘ new ’ . |
| 23 | Bjornsson explains in a way which serves to remind us that the mathematical precision of a readability formula may be misleading . |
| 24 | The usage embodied in the first of these quotations is now well established in the literature , and the sentiments expressed in the second serve to remind us that the idea of the ultimately contingent nature of what is often taken to be ‘ natural ’ has a long and distinguished pedigree . |
| 25 | My hon. Friend is right to remind us that the Universities Funding Council has considerable funds which it receives from the Government and distributes partially for research-based purposes . |
| 26 | As I pointed out earlier , even those scientists who are most eager to assure us that the difference between man and other animals is only a matter of degree always conduct their experiments in a way which implies that the observer is quite different in kind from what he observes . |
| 27 | Mr Kerfoot said : ‘ No one came to see us and the opportunity was lost . |
| 28 | When significant parts of the system are reformed , we have no test to tell us whether the outcome is an improper breach of the constitutional order , a proper amendment , or whether the reformed institutions were not part of the ‘ constitution ’ at all . |
| 29 | The Minister has an obligation to tell us whether the Government intend to implement Rothschild if they are returned to power . |
| 30 | A DESPATCH from Rome in Thursday 's newspaper seemed to tell us that the Pope has been urging sex education for priests . |