Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] we [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Billy was a tower of strength in Palace 's two years in the 1st Division , 1979–81 , missing only five of our 84 games there , and then his sturdy and dependable displays helped to keep us from further embarrassment after we had returned to Division Two , so that every Palace fan was sorry to see Billy opt to leave us for Portsmouth in the 1984 close season . |
| 2 | If they want to join us in this enterprise , so much the better . |
| 3 | ‘ A curious time you have picked to tell us of this , Michael Riven , ’ Murtach said , smiling wryly . |
| 4 | No he wants to tape us on some sort of tape . |
| 5 | This tendency to associate — designed to warn us of impending danger-can in fact work against us . |
| 6 | ‘ Ah , Mildred , I see you 've decided to rejoin us at last . |
| 7 | I 've then got rolling I A P's with Rob and whoever it is that got to help us with individual action planning |
| 8 | We had been looking forward rather to this little drive between East and West Tarbert , but our greatest pleasure was when we stepped safely down at the pier where the little Islay steamer " Fingal " was waiting to carry us to this island of Jura . |
| 9 | Heaven knows why , but numerous other GTi drivers seem to see us as some kind of personal challenge . |
| 10 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 11 | However , having been off last week , I have n't been able to do that , but I have made all the amendments and I was only going to talk us through those that needed everybody to know about them . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The theme of this EP , if the sleeve is owt to go by , is that aliens are going to put us in big test tubes full of pink bubbles . |
| 14 | If you feel that you , or any group that you are associated with , could avail of our facilities , please do not hesitate to contact us at 0762 342669 or write to us at Craigavon Sprite Watersports Centre |
| 15 | The full calendar will be confirmed in November 1991 , please do not hesitate to contact us on 0920 463900 for further information . |
| 16 | And then again if agonisings about modern are seem to take us in one direction , the banning of books as reminded us , takes us in quite another , and we have to remember that for all practical purposes it was indeed a banned book for nearly fifteen years , from the Twenties into the Thirties . |
| 17 | Okay so do you want to run us through some of the things that we have n't really discussed in detail of what we 're gon na talk about in here today , specifically have we , I mean I thought something along the lines of er the nature and extent of sexual variations in English , or any other language you want . |
| 18 | Fucking Brinley 's a big fucking tart as far as I 'm concerned there are young man are you coming to discover us with young Sam ? |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | The names of Robert Graves , W.H. Auden , and Christopher Isherwood may serve to remind us of English writers who seem to have reached the same dismaying conclusion over the years since . |
| 21 | We can not answer that question with certainty , but the details of the story itself would seem to provide us with several clues . |
| 22 | Many fine details — beautiful 16thcentury wooden ceilings , 15th-century painted glass , and a grand fireplace in the presence chamber — remain to remind us of this original purpose . |
| 23 | And , of course , we hope that piloting centres will continue to provide us with vital feedback . |
| 24 | We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year . |
| 25 | ‘ Why are you trying to split us in two ? |
| 26 | What moral blight upon the fair youth or our city will they offer to free us from next , I wonder . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But he had to keep us on that . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | So a stallion may respond to punishment from us by trying to kick us with greater determination instead . |