Example sentences of "[adv] [to-vb] us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If you would n't mind coming along to light us on the way back ? |
| 2 | At one of our constituency surgeries , a retired widow came in to see us concerning the seventeen pounds extra which she would have to pay extra er to cover the other non-payments . |
| 3 | A great big THANK YOU to all of the Clothes Show Live visitors that popped along to see us at the N.E.C. |
| 4 | One of the Taï chimpanzee mothers , Ricci , was kind enough to provide us with the first record of observable active teaching ( acceptable to a psychologist ) in a non-human animal in the wild . |
| 5 | Erm Lisa is that I 'm not quite sure , from the York University student rooms , is in to help us with the big box pile up . |
| 6 | His ironic protestations — " " My wit is short ; ye may well understonde " " ; " " Blameth nat me … " " — serve only to remind us of the fact that here we have a court poet playing first the pilgrim-narrator " Chaucer " and then playing a churl . |
| 7 | I.M. Dalby , Osric Place , Newton Aycliffe : I was at Maynards in the Haymarket , Newcastle , training to be manageress at the Bishop Auckland branch , when a lady from the snack bar next door came in to tell us of the passing away of the King . |
| 8 | When you came over to see us in the field , Cowslip , you said your warren was n't large , but judging by the holes we saw along the bank , it must be what we 'd reckon a fine , big one . " |
| 9 | It also did something to the plumbing , and it was decided not to keep us for the month we had been promised , but to billet us out to houses nearby . |
| 10 | As I have emphasised three times , the previous Select Committee on Health and Social Services made a number of pleas to the Government not to get us into the position that we are in now . |
| 11 | They kindly squashed up to let us into the shelter , whereupon all conversation ceased . |
| 12 | He is a seasoned traveller as well as an agile ladder climber , often coming up to join us on the roof . |
| 13 | Wrangham 's work goes far to provide us with the essential spatial structuring that underlies this flexibility . |
| 14 | Mike , an ex-philosophy student , was going off to Germany in the New Year ; Naomi from Bristol was about to embark on a Museum Studies course at university ; Liane , a weights and measures official , was one of the many volunteers who had helped at Uppark after the fire ; and Hugh , a quantity surveyor currently between jobs , set out to astound us over the next few days with his minimalist clothing ( some ancient jeans which were fashionably ripped at the crotch and a pair of lurid , exceedingly short shorts ) . |
| 15 | Sir : Jonathan Glancey ( Architecture ; ‘ Invisible buildings that reflect nothing ’ , 4 October ) does well to remind us of the spreading disease of the mirrored glass building . |
| 16 | Neither does the statement , ‘ All those coloured glass pictures of people which you see in the windows of churches , have been put there to remind us of the good which those people did during their lives . |
| 17 | We 'll wait for the lads up there to tell us about the blood and we 'll read the autopsy report . |
| 18 | After a while we appeared to stop accelerating in this nose-high stance — and of course we could no longer clearly see where we were going , so I eased the yoke forward to lift us onto the step . |