Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [vb infin] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Hush , my dear , you do n't want your aunt to hear us talk ill about her son . |
| 2 | ‘ Certainly the education authority and society in general do nothing to help us resolve this problem . ’ ‘ |
| 3 | We look to the independent film-makers ’ movement to help us do that , and we welcome their work to the screen . |
| 4 | He seems very keen to help us do this . |
| 5 | Magazine articles , in an attempt to help us improve that image , advise us to stand sideways on , without our clothes , before a long mirror , and check up honestly on our general shape . |
| 6 | I believe that the Secretary of State agrees with us about the importance of the future role of the Territorial Army , and I am sure that he will do all in his power to help us achieve that objective . |
| 7 | While Davidge could not at that time be more specific , he observed , ‘ the appointment of Sir Anthony is intended to stimulate discussion and to help us rexamine all existing and potential services ’ . |
| 8 | Will you please consider running to help us rebuild more lives and show that you , too care ? |
| 9 | Will you please consider running to help us rebuild more lives and show that you , too care ? |
| 10 | The blue book is really our instruction manual , and the red book unlocks that to help us identify those procedures which affect the quality of service that we provide to our clients . |
| 11 | ‘ If you don , then all I ask is that you show your appreciation of your teacher by supporting her and joining the society in order to help us provide more teachers . ’ |
| 12 | But we desperately need the public to help us win this battle . ’ |
| 13 | This is where the theory starts to help us get more mileage from our old friends the minor pentatonic scales . |
| 14 | ‘ We would also like to appeal for funds to help us finance this event . |
| 15 | Our society and culture , together with our spiritual awareness , has built a structure over the years to help us remember those people and events that have done much to determine the kind of lives we live today , and that part of the structure that relates to the Royal Air Force has , of course , a special interest for our Association . |
| 16 | There are two areas in the Project Video programme in which we need to have some stills or artwork and I wonder if you might be able to help us find suitable material ? |
| 17 | We have recently completed an audit of provision at the college and in the four schools in our consortium , in order to help us plan these further developments . ’ |
| 18 | Timex boss Mohammed Saleh said union demands that 343 sacked workers be taken back ‘ not realistic … they did everything possible not to help us keep that plant going ’ . |
| 19 | In fact , though , McGurk and MacDonald ( 1976 ) have shown the extent to which we use information about the position of a speaker 's lips to help us recognise spoken words . |
| 20 | And what we would do in those circumstances sir is if the late objections er the objections or representations that were to arrive er up to let us say five o'clock tomorrow , we would er deal with and then send on to you with copies to the objector of course . |
| 21 | We try to reduce the distance between ourselves and our boss by using first-person-plural pronouns , talking of what ‘ we ’ ( i.e. the boss and I ) will do in the future — ‘ We could always write to head office , and ask them to let us have more data . |
| 22 | I think , I think , I 'd love to see us give this full amount . |
| 23 | ‘ And there are people now outside Newcastle who want to see us get that record and also be successful . |
| 24 | Clearly , parents generally must welcome the news that cuddling is not only nice but necessary ; perhaps , however , we should spare a compassionate thought once more for the intellectual mothers of the thirties , whose sufferings as they tried to be ‘ good ’ mothers are now repeated in the knowledge that all their efforts only led them to be ‘ bad ’ mothers : as one of our correspondents added , ‘ Here is Bowlby , still out to make us feel guilty — about our rejection of the children we loved but were not allowed to love . ’ |
| 25 | Lies are essential in life , says Professor Loyal Rue — not only do we lie to others , we tell ourselves fibs to make us feel better . |
| 26 | We have even constructed elaborate theories to make us feel better about the lives older people lead . |
| 27 | Well that 's what I 'm saying , you know drugs erm , well you 're looking at society where we 're given drugs to make us feel better . |
| 28 | He does n't come with a lot pious platitudes and and charming words to make us feel better . |
| 29 | Its original function , according to Seth , was to make us feel bad , by briefly separating us from our sense of love and connectedness , so that we would not repeat a harmful act . |
| 30 | They looked down on us silently , and did nothing to make us feel happier . |