Example sentences of "[verb] us [to-vb] the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Utilitarianism is often thought of as challenging us to rethink the ethics of the common sense of our society . |
| 2 | Mr Fuller said : ‘ Our club only heard from him when we had discos in the club house and he phoned us to keep the noise down . ’ |
| 3 | Every incident that occurs within our circle of awareness causes us to ask the question ‘ How does this affect me ? ’ . |
| 4 | ‘ They want us to finance the purchase of your equipment . ’ |
| 5 | Opposition Members want us to forbid the use of that personal allowance , if only in part , for a particular purpose . |
| 6 | They want us to divorce the staff time |
| 7 | I mean in response to the general tone of the argument which was they want us to increase the leadership roles in the , in in local government and in in local communities and local councils we would we thought that |
| 8 | I personally want us to win the game well , to resurrect team morale which seems halfmast at the mo . |
| 9 | ‘ I want us to become the AC Milan of English football , ’ said the Geordies boss . |
| 10 | ‘ Woolley wants us to kill the observers , ’ Killion said . |
| 11 | We can see that God wants us to take the initiative to put things right no matter who is at fault . |
| 12 | otherwise we leave it for an evening just have general , I mean if we can she wants us to do the whole twenty , she said she 'd be delighted , there was Yorkshire Television on her car keys |
| 13 | But before we go , he wants us to see the video of his new record . |
| 14 | If there was a choice of department within a region , we chose the one that gave its nurse practitioners most responsibility as we assumed that its nurse practitioners would fulfil the role most completely , enabling us to examine the role more effectively . |
| 15 | Importantly , by enabling us to see the lack of stability within textual play , deconstruction has helped bring attention to the exterior forces which attempt to control such play . |
| 16 | And we feel confirmed in this interpretation by its enabling us to answer the question , ‘ What does the word ‘ understand ’ stand for ? ’ with ‘ a mental process we have found to occur in ourselves ’ . |
| 17 | Barclays subscribed cash for preference shares and ordinary shares representing 20% of our equity , enabling us to buy the equipment . |
| 18 | ‘ It 's enabling us to get the effects we need in blends , primarily with wool , mainly for women 's wear . |
| 19 | This helped us to maintain the dividend at 9p per share , rather than having to reduce it . |
| 20 | The existing clients helped us to raise the money and went round their relatives . |
| 21 | They helped us to transport the food . ’ |
| 22 | His comic-opera face contorted , his moustache drooped and he gripped his rifle with both hands to motion us to open the back of the vehicle . |
| 23 | They do n't give us anything , but still expect us to pay the poll tax . ’ |
| 24 | But they expect us to keep the place open for ‘ em . |
| 25 | For once we were carrying neither wine nor spirits on Wavebreaker , for Jackson Chatterton 's drug clinic had utterly forbidden us to offer the twins any alcohol , saying that any mood-altering drug could hamper the success of a detoxification programme . |
| 26 | What does it profit us to list the number of times a mother rubs her baby 's back when we really want to know if she did it with affection or out of nervousness ? |
| 27 | ‘ Last year , ’ he added , ‘ accountants advised us to let the station fold and buy the bits back from the receiver . |
| 28 | Think of all the selves you put on — selves that are n't really masks because they are a true part of the core being — but that often coexist uneasily , compelling us to recognise the tension and contradictions between the different selves . |
| 29 | They should not , however , cause us to neglect the observations of those who are actually players . |
| 30 | The book 's title comes from Psalm 60 : ‘ Thou has shewd thy people hard things : thou has made us to drink the wine of astonishment ’ . |