Example sentences of "[adj] [to-vb] we [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope that many practitioners will be willing to support us in this effort . |
| 2 | We stayed in a cheap boarding-house from which the landlord saw fit to evict us for all the hours of daylight ; strolling abroad , we devoted our time to churchgoing and to incoherent altercations with the Italian police . |
| 3 | ‘ I 'm sure I do n't know for what act of yours the Deity has seen fit to bless us with mounted Normans , and shiploads of mercenaries , and woods that burn in a trice , but you must have dropped a word somewhere that commended itself . ’ |
| 4 | I had pulled the team together by the second half , and Sporting found us a very different proposition and were lucky to hold us to 0–0 . |
| 5 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |
| 6 | It is important that constituents should be able to consult us about confidential matters , but surely we should not go so far as to give comfort to murderers and bombers , as has been suggested . |
| 7 | I hope that my hon. Friend the Minister will be able to help us on that point tonight . |
| 8 | No one was able to give us at that time the valuable advice which I only picked up years later , namely that the great danger in cholera was dehydration , necessitating that the sufferer be given frequent drinks of cold water previously boiled . |
| 9 | ‘ Your sister 's been able to supply us with most of the details we need . ’ |
| 10 | And surely any dramatist ought to be able to move us with that final night of Holly 's life , when his musicians ( including Waylon Jennings ) gave their places on the ‘ plane to the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens . |
| 11 | We do hope that you will be able to join us on one of these evenings . |
| 12 | They 'll be able to tell us for certain later . |
| 13 | I hope that the right hon. Gentleman will be able to tell us about that soon and that he will make a statement on that matter next week . |
| 14 | Are you able to tell us in open session what sort of weapons are envisaged ? |
| 15 | And I do n't understand why she was so slow to alert us to those symptoms today . ’ |
| 16 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ The gaffer was ready to hammer us for that but after this result I asked , where are we going next Thursday — a nightclub ? |
| 18 | As before , successful attention switching depends upon careful preparation , having the techniques and the subjects to which to attend at our fingertips ready to distract us from negative or irrational thought . |