Example sentences of "us [vb infin] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To get an idea of the profit made , let us compare Turner 's prices against those actually charged by the funeral furnisher in Chadwick 's 1843 Report for a simple earth-burial funeral in the metropolis . |
| 2 | Let us compare this with situations in which the issue of race has been involved . |
| 3 | Let us compare that with our experience in the EC . |
| 4 | For one more example , let us compare two terms which will be familiar to many readers ; when the phrase logical theory is used , an obvious difference of meaning is involved , depending on whether we are talking about a theory which has the characteristic of being logical ( with ascriptive interpretation of the adjective ) or about a theory which is concerned with aspects of logic ( associative use ) . |
| 5 | It can help us explain why the entrenched and the familiar can suddenly appear conditional and temporary , and inject meaning into those long-forgotten disputes which are bubbling to the surface , especially within the Soviet bloc . |
| 6 | Let us explain ourselves . |
| 7 | Let us explain this briefly . |
| 8 | Had they played the ball down th channels or to the corner flags , this would have turned their defence and let us regroup and play in their half . |
| 9 | But let us glory in a statistic for once . |
| 10 | Let us enhance the way you live in as natural a way as possible . |
| 11 | The Pentland Firth and Scapa Flow , Lerwick and Sullom Voe were soon as familiar as the south coast and the Solent had become in the past , but familiarity would never make us treat these places with anything but respect and I tried never to take chances . |
| 12 | We had to go in there several times when I was little and mother was sick , and they 'd never let us stay together , so anything could have happened . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ Decent of Miss Henry to let us stay out late tonight , ’ Felicity remarked , when the order had been given . |
| 14 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 15 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 16 | ‘ With the fear of God in us , we played passionately in the second half and ran out 3-2 winners , so Cloughie 's unpredictability in letting us stay up late on the Friday night was vindicated . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The theatre have told me not to come back , and Mrs Seager wo n't let us stay on . ’ |
| 18 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 19 | They used to let us stay in bed , so it was a bit tough . |
| 20 | She let us stay with her for a week after Dada — ’ She paused , and again her hesitation appeared as if her mind were groping for an answer or a revelation to something she could n't understand ; then she said , ‘ After Dada … died . |
| 21 | They made us stay at one end of the room . |
| 22 | Vast industries grow up to reinforce our fear and denial , help us stay unwrinkled , maintain our hair colour , postpone sagging muscles . |
| 23 | ‘ Let us stay on the safe side . |
| 24 | So you either either sell back to our sixteen units of poles and let us stay the night , or come back again tomorrow . |
| 25 | We 're the ones that have said to Jehovah I am dedicating my life to you , I am going to do this , do that and the other and it 's up to us as to whether we do it , so it requires effort , first , five , six , also says let us stay awake , keep our senses first Peter , five , eight keep your senses , be watchful and then first Corinthians , ten , twelve which I think the song was based on let him think that he is standing , beware , beware , beware that he does not fall , if you think things are going along nicely and you 're in a comfortable little corner , a little niche in the truth , and it 's just how you like it , and it 's just the way you want it to be and there 's the time we need to be aware because there 's an opening for Satan to get into to make us fall . |
| 26 | ‘ Finding the structure of the protein and how the tumour cells work will help us devise an antibody . |
| 27 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 28 | After the events of 1968 it was renamed ‘ The Union of Anti-Fascist Fighters ' ’ which was an attempt to make us restrict our goals . |
| 29 | Let us restrict ourselves to square matrices ; then premultiplication of any matrix A by unc has the effect of interchanging the ith and jth rows of A ; postmultiplication of A by unc interchanges the ith and jth columns . |
| 30 | And Olson wo n't let us squirm off the hook — for him the anti-Jewishness is symptom , not cause : |