Example sentences of "[vb -s] [to-vb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ( Recall Fodor 's example of blinking when a good friend goes to poke us in the eye . ) |
| 2 | He wants to provide us with the insight from his word and the power from his Holy Spirit that our lives should be transformed . |
| 3 | Does not my hon. Friend consider it surprising that the right hon. Member for Chingford ( Mr. Tebbit ) , who always wants to lecture us about the rule of law although we certainly need no lectures about it from him , comes to the House with , I think , two cases where crookedness was involved ? |
| 4 | Let's remember that God wants to help us with our experience of conflict . |
| 5 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 6 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 7 | Quite possibly he wants to shield us from the fact |
| 8 | ‘ The Palace wants to portray us in the worst possible light . |
| 9 | A different kind of style , and a different kind of rhetoric , is employed in passages where Dickens wants to move us with compassion : notably in Paul 's death scene , where he can afford to use simple syntax and vocabulary ( expressing the simple images of the child 's mind ) in the assurance that understatement will merely intensify the reader 's sympathy : [ 4 ] Paul had never risen from his little bed ( 1 ) . |
| 10 | Now let us take Midgley at her word and ask what Griffin , as a representative scientist specialising in the field of animal thinking , has to tell us about possibly the most basic attribute of all animals , namely , consciousness . |
| 11 | No he wants to tape us on some sort of tape . |
| 12 | AFTER THE soundcheck in Boston , a car arrives to whisk us outside of town to the local alternative radio station . |
| 13 | Just as surely God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship , so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great general disillusionment with others , with Christians in general , and , if we are fortunate , with ourselves . |
| 14 | If Councillor wants to go and get a G B H haircut it tends to confuse us on this side of the er as to exactly what we are debating . |
| 15 | On Saturday afternoon , our faithful guide and interpreter Comrade Wong , together with another comrade who mysteriously seems to accompany us on such occasions ( Comrade Sun ) took us by car to the Friendship Store which is an emporium for the exclusive use of ‘ foreign friends ’ . |
| 16 | The ‘ Dust in the air suspended ’ seems to present us with a barren desert of death . |
| 17 | While the hon. Gentleman 's speech was interesting if idiosyncratic , he appears to join us in condemning the employment policies of the Labour party . |
| 18 | Uncle wishes to see us at Hampton Court . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Damn fog ; it 's rolling in as if it means to isolate us beneath a blanket . ’ |
| 20 | ‘ Yet she made it known to Brother Tutilo , ’ retorted Herluin , burning up in his turn , ‘ that she has felt compassion towards afflicted Ramsey , and wishes to benefit us in our distress . |
| 21 | God means to free us from the bondage to the self-centredness and self-vindication which marked us in the old days , and has equipped us with the Spirit of the Messiah to set us free to serve him unselfconsciously , effectively and joyfully . |
| 22 | Right so if we differentiate our demand function we get that alright , nothing that for our elasticity we want one over D P D Q okay , so our elasticity you could write as one over minus beta A Q to the minus beta plus one right , times our price quantity ratio which if we now just substitute in the price , so that we have got A Q to the minus beta , right over Q , right , that equals A Q to the minus beta minus one over minus beta A Q minus beta to the minus one right which cancels to give us minus one over beta . |
| 23 | He tries to concern us with the problem of liberals : ‘ When I trained , ’ says Gumede , an ANC guerrilla , ‘ they said that the liberal was more dangerous than the enemy . ’ |
| 24 | A recent pronouncement by a former Education Minister serves to remind us of the kind of thinking we must guard against . |
| 25 | The wildfire growth of the Boy Scouts serves to remind us of the enormity of the Edwardian era 's preoccupation with its youth , and the groundswell of not only national enthusiasm but also deep funds of social anxiety . |
| 26 | The word serves to remind us of the importance of that element so far not introduced into the discussion : diplomacy . |
| 27 | In case we become aware of its tricks , the Ego tries to throw us off the scent , by projecting aspects of itself onto the outside world . |
| 28 | Constitutional theory , in explaining how the various institutions of the state work together and in offering a particular theory of representation connecting state to society , seeks to provide us with answers to large and profound questions about who governs and how ; about who should govern and how ; and about the respective rights of people and the privileges of property in British politics . |
| 29 | And the immune system normally functions to protect us in this way , and is regulated in such a manner that it does not attack bits of oneself , but only legitimate foreign targets , and thereby is our ally . |
| 30 | If this sounds a strange gospel coming from a theologian , let me say immediately that there is so much in the Bible about the awfulness , the cruelty and the unfaithfulness of human kind that we may be sometimes justified in wondering why God continues to love us at all . |