Example sentences of "[prep] us to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally . |
| 2 | Well I think in common with most local authorities we 've been playing a sort of cat and mouse game with Central Government over the last ten years , where we have attempted to continue to deliver the services that we believe we 've been elected to deliver , and Central Government has been trying to close off what it would see as loopholes and gain control of us and stop us doing what it does n't want us to do , but of course it 's a rather unequal struggle and the cat and mouse analogy is quite a good one in that Central Government has all the power and is able to erm take control of us to the extent now that the budget that both the City and the County Council have set for the coming year has effectively been set by Central Government . |
| 3 | At the Carnival , 1925 , when I was 10 , Sam had first bought us large ice-creams and had decided , before going into the circus , to take the three of us to the menageries ( at an extra cost of two pence , if I remember right ) . |
| 4 | At the same time I placed a leg between his ; the object being to prevent him bringing up his knee against my balls.The plan was to throw both of us to the ground — at the right moment . |
| 5 | Well the fear of boring you because I 've said it before , I think that either a Trustee made up of an equal balance of members from the various interested groups which is very difficult to achieve in practice and additionally independent trustees certainly in our case , we believe would have stopped it happening because the movements in the direction it went was clear now that we have the information in front of us to the Trustees , it was quite clear what was gon na happen and nothing was done about it . |
| 6 | We sent a small plane load of things ahead of us to the States . |
| 7 | As he talks a train of small boys returning from school tramps behind us to the beat of the folk-pop tape . |
| 8 | BA has never engaged in such a campaign and the allegations made against us to the contrary are totally untrue . |
| 9 | " You can come with us to the Convent of St. Francis near Wild Tor . |
| 10 | Probably the Khan will give Nogai some work to do to keep him occupied until we return from Kinsai , but we could just as easily find the whole pack of them travelling with us to the capital . |
| 11 | ‘ Signor Skof , we would like you to come with us to the barracks to answer some questions , ’ one of them said ; and the other : ‘ You will be allowed home this afternoon . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ Could he come with us to the West ? ’ she asks . |
| 13 | ROS : My lord , you must tell us where the body is and go with us to the King . |
| 14 | ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’ |
| 15 | I have for myself come to the conclusion that owing to the conditions which exist in the world today , having regard to the economic environment , having regard to the situation of our country , if we go on pattering along as we are we shall have grave unemployment with us to the end of time , and I have come to the conclusion that the only way of fighting this subject is by protecting the home markets . |
| 16 | But he certainly does n't want to walk with us to the end of the bridge . ’ |
| 17 | After six months as Premier , however , Baldwin told the Conservative Party Conference that unemployment was the gravest domestic issue which the country had to face , and that ‘ if we go pottering along as we are we shall have grave unemployment with us to the end of time ’ . |
| 18 | We then said goodbye to the kindly fireman and Paul Ingouf said he would come with us to the Harbour where we were to catch the ferry to Portsmouth . |
| 19 | ‘ We have therefore suspended the Winchester Group as an appointed representative of the Norwich Union to take effect immediately and to continue until such time as they hear further from us to the contrary . |
| 20 | We were camped on a sand and gravel plain with the road running north–south , fifty yards from us to the east . |
| 21 | He frames the petitions in our lips ; and he prays within us to the Father , with sighs too deep for words . |
| 22 | Moreover , goals relate to situations , so arousal may be as much situational as internal ; we may be aroused by the presence of others and the knowledge that other people are evaluating us , thereby linking goals or values important to us to the situation in which we find ourselves . |
| 23 | The figure of Mercy points to the nature of the redemptive process : Later still , Julian of Norwich , whose mystical experience arose out of meditation on the Passion , defined her sense of a dynamic power of divine love working to process the effects of sin as the work of Christ : " and there is in him bleding and praying for us to the Father — and is and shall be as long as it nedith " . |
| 24 | He will talk about us to the cook ! ’ |
| 25 | Your request will be passed on by us to the supplier concerned but we do not guarantee that your requirements will be met . |