Example sentences of "[modal v] [verb] us [prep] a " in BNC.

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1 You must regard us as a cross to bear . ’
2 ‘ You are quite sure that he said nothing to you which might provide us with a clue to the killer ? ’
3 ‘ I wonder if you might tell us of a local hostelry where I can purchase a good dinner ?
4 you 'd sort us to a tee …
5 ‘ I could check us into a motel out of town you give the number to the Liaison Office I 'll give it to my office and hope their nasty little mints think that 's all that 's going on . ’
6 If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things .
7 He used to tell us with a sparkle of pride of enormous weights lifted by him in his youth , and of fights where he felled a man like a bullock .
8 And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats .
9 However this would lock us into a service led system , with very little room for the expression of user choice or the tailoring of services to the individual .
10 I wonder what price the bookies would give us for a Central South treble ; that 's Oxford to win the Boat Race , Gloucester to reach the Cup Final and Swindon to beat West Brom .
11 We were given crêpe paper to make hats , lanterns and crackers , and Mrs Archer would provide us with a sweet or a nut to put in the cracker .
12 Acorn would provide us with a ready-made hotel chain ripe for further expansion .
13 Although it would be possible to pursue the question of history in terms of such analyses of the forms of historicity , such an enquiry would take us on a very different path from that prompted by our original question , namely if poststructuralism can apparently be faulted by reference to a history which it neglects , where in Marxism can this history be found ?
14 At the end of the evening Surkov was surrounded by a group of admirers soliciting autographs , and he shouted at us to go on back to the hotel , he would join us in a while .
15 I think our survey showed it could be as high as fifty per hectare in fact , er but we did n't have a full response to the survey and er there 's nothing er in the results that would lead us to a conclusion that it should be lower or higher , so we 're quite happy to accept that assumption .
16 I still warm myself on memories of family parties where Uncle Brian would sing ‘ Unchained Melody ’ into a glass , Aunty Rosy would become more argumentative after her third sherry , Uncle Harold would lecture on the brilliance of Enoch Powell , and Dad would lead us in a community rendering of :
17 The food faddists , he warns , ‘ would leave us on a diet of nuts and cabbage — and then find too much salt in the nuts ’ .
18 If you work on a seven point five figure , then you get up to twenty seven thousand four hundred and twenty seven hours , erm , before next year , erm , That would leave us with a difficulty I think , because if I were , if we went ahead with the idea of recruiting two people now er we would need to get rid of four of them by , oh four people all together , erm , by er the next financial year , which clearly is not terribly sensible .
19 That leaves us then with or would leave us with a substantial provision in Greater York .
20 It might seem that a simple complement of the analysis offered above for acquired equivalence would supply us with a mechanism for acquired distinctiveness .
21 I wonder if they would supply us with a researcher
22 She has written a very full report which will assist us with a review of advanced courses policy in the light of the development of general Scottish Vocational Qualifications ( of which more later ) .
23 Then conscience would not so much be a faculty of intuiting truths as a God-given power within us which — if put in control — will steer us in a particular direction , when it comes to choosing between ourselves and others .
24 ‘ This particularly rich pagan cemetery still contains skeletons and grave goods in good condition and will provide us with a wealth of information on the health and culture of the sixth-century inhabitants of Cambridgeshire , ’ Mr Malim said .
25 Many physiologists believe that an exhaustive study of the types of stimuli that increase or decrease the discharge rates of different types of sensory system cell will provide us with a description of how that system works .
26 This together with an improved factory deep cleaning service will provide us with a factory hygiene service , that I am sure will develop into a major business for the division in future years .
27 It will provide us with a great boost , ’ he said .
28 We have set very clear targets which will return us to a basic level of performance in the next two years .
29 ‘ Mary , my dear , you will excuse us for a moment .
30 This complete lack of rules will force us into a difficult situation , where the student will have to use his own intuition and aesthetic judgement .
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