Example sentences of "[to-vb] us for a " in BNC.
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| 1 | TO our delight Edinburgh 's own novelist Lucilla Andrews accepted and invitation to visit us for a formal presentation of some signed copies of her books . |
| 2 | Namely he has expressed his wish to King Leopold of the Belgians and requested him to press us for a withdrawal . |
| 3 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 4 | ‘ The peculiar thing is that Blackbeard seemed ready to murder us for a wallet with a few fivers in it , all of which he was going to give to his bruiser , anyway . |
| 5 | ‘ People try to take us for a ride from time to time . |
| 6 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
| 7 | She 's a partner in a firm of solicitors in the High Street — well , she thought you might like to join us for a family Christmas dinner . |
| 8 | We almost wished we could ask one of them to join us for a meal . |
| 9 | I am prepared to forget all that if you agree to join us for a stroll on this fine summer 's day . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ How would you like to join us for a while ? |
| 11 | Tiny children , barefoot and dirty , tried to generate enough courage to touch us for a few fils ’ . |