Example sentences of "[verb] [prep] us that the " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Palestinian guerrillas would squat behind their outposts of earth and rocks up in the cold air among the fir trees , cradling their rocket-propelled grenades and announcing to us that the Syrians would not be permitted to move one more metre — not one more inch — along the highway to Beirut . |
| 2 | ‘ At first we tried breeze blocks , ’ Sally explains , ‘ but it very quickly occurred to us that the only way was to do it properly , using original bricks . ’ |
| 3 | Jock instilled into us that the end product of our training was for us to become independent in every way , operating either alone or in very small groups . |
| 4 | The full package will be made available to you as soon as you can confirm to us that the other material areas of uncertainty in your offer have been resolved . |
| 5 | In a similar vein , Clara Malraux who spent several months in the company of Nizan in Moscow in 1934 , recalls that Nizan 's hopes for the creation of " new values " , a " new man " in Soviet society were not fulfilled : " It seemed to us that the new man had not yet emerged " . |
| 6 | So it seemed to us that the the general sense and purpose of the policy was was not in a sense disputed but that er in order to avoid a leng what was considered at the time to be perhaps unnecessary detail and going into erm too much detail that er we felt that the agricultural land policies could be left to perform the sort of main objective that we were seeking through , I think it was E three at the time , was was the proposed policy . |
| 7 | Special needs again we 've highlighted , we have put in a token on the er in the primary sector erm it 's a notional amount , clearly we ca n't tell the schools how to spend their money but it seemed to us that the increasing in managerial role of primary deputy heads , they would welcome er a small increase in non con in non contact time . |
| 8 | There is little to suggest to us that the housing or goods of Sussex labourers varied much from those of their late medieval predecessors . |
| 9 | Monsieur Truffer confirmed to us that the crew must have died instantly — if they had not already been killed by the anti-aircraft fire . |
| 10 | As soon as we removed ourselves from eyries at Television Centre and Broadcasting House , people began saying to us that the key subject we had to look at was one of portrayal and representation on air . |
| 11 | It appears to us that the point is a thoroughly esoteric one because it postulates that the judges had consented to arrangements for the Inns to exercise disciplinary powers over barristers , subject to their supervision , which infringed some fairly elementary rules of natural justice . |
| 12 | The jury may in some cases put two and two together , but it seems to us that the effect of section 58 is such that the balance of fairness between prosecution and defence can not be maintained unless proper comment is permitted on the defendant 's silence in such circumstances . |
| 13 | However , if the general points of our argument are right , it seems to us that the innate versus learnt debate loses most of its force ; indeed , the papers in this volume corroborate such findings . |
| 14 | It seems to us that the Bill would be open to criticism if it had to rely on provisions such as those in [ the Larceny Act 1916 , section ] 44(3) and ( 4 ) . |
| 15 | Lady Wilcox said : ‘ We want to get informed comment before we draw up firm recommendations , but , at present , it seems to us that the best solution is likely to be a mixture of funding from different quarters . ’ |
| 16 | It may possibly be , as it surely is in ( 22 ) , that , where a single entity is present to the mind of the speaker , the same speaker can not simultaneously entertain the idea of more than one referent corresponding to that entity ( though there may be certain problems for this view in the case of collective nouns such as government or congregation or quartet , for which see Chapter 8 ) ; however , it is much less obvious that , where there is assumed to be only a single referent , there should be only a single intensional entity present to the mind ; rather , it seems to us that the separation of the referential and the intensional elements is precisely what lies behind such examples as ( 23 ) ( from Searle , 1969 ) , or ( 24 ) : ( 23 ) Everest is Chomolungma ( 24 ) the sheriff did not know that he was Arthur 's brother In the latter sentence , of course , we are interested in the interpretation which has he co-referring with Arthur 's brother , and the reason that we do not find a reflexive in the final position is precisely that these two elements are distinct intensionally even though they share the same referent . |
| 17 | It seems to us that the House of Lords today might come to another conclusion . |
| 18 | ‘ It is just not practical to have 80 homeless people living here with one warden looking after them and it seems to us that the council have just shot into this without thinking . ’ |
| 19 | There is utter and total confusion and anything that stands still they used to say they would paint it in industry they now say market test it and they do admit to us that the end object does not necessarily mean complete contractorization or privatization , but at this particular moment in time |
| 20 | Now , said Ray , the work has ‘ helped us narrow down the source rock to one or two possibilities , and it has indicated to us that the source rock does not vary across the region . ’ |
| 21 | But if we grow a client server towards the enterprise solution , we 've already talked about the straw pole that we often do where it indicates to us that the average number of er data repositories or data sources in an organization is more than ten . |
| 22 | It does seem to us that the impetus is lost if the library committee is either unable or unwilling to continue its work or if key individuals in the project subsequently leave the school . |
| 23 | Previous reports on B-cell differentiation in XLA ( refs 2 , 28 ) suggested to us that the disease gene may be expressed throughout B lymphocyte development . |
| 24 | In any particular society , real life suggests to us that the answers are neither black nor white but rather shades of grey . |