Example sentences of "[noun sg] [to-vb] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is highly probable that by early in the next century it will require no more than ten per cent of the labour force to provide us with all our material needs — that is , all the food we eat , all the clothing we wear , all the textiles and furnishings in our houses , the houses themselves , the appliances , the automobiles , and so on . |
| 2 | We were soon to discover that Masha might be in no condition to set us on any track . |
| 3 | Suppose , however , that we resisted Wittgenstein 's attempt to push us from weak-kneed scepticism to solipsism ; we find the relevant argument ( see 5.4 ) unconvincing , perhaps . |
| 4 | As for the Chancellor himself , Mr Parkinson said : ‘ I think he has both the backbone and the brains and the determination to see us through this difficulty . ’ |
| 5 | But in the Lawrence passage , there is no such intermediary to deflect us from direct participation in the fictional world . |
| 6 | What is n't is A Winter Tan 's capacity to move us in another way , in particular with a riveting and lacerating piece of acting that underlines and illustrates its argument . |
| 7 | Our thanks to them and to everyone who gave so generously of their time and money to help us through this difficult time . |
| 8 | On the other hand it would make sense for nature to endow us with greater sexuality at a time when we are most likely to become pregnant . |
| 9 | ‘ Or he could just have wished to have an excuse for placing men near the chateau to keep us under closer observation . |
| 10 | ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 . |
| 11 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 12 | It is often part of an author 's technique to leave us in some doubt as to what precisely is going on in the fictional world , as Katherine Mansfield does here . |
| 13 | Well that 's going free to the first person to ring us on three double one , one double one with the answers to these three questions , listen carefully . |
| 14 | and get another person to sponsor us for that |
| 15 | After start-up funds from the Gulbenkian to employ our data-base operator , we have now received some funds from the Baring Foundation to assist us in this major task . |
| 16 | Similar exercises have been undertaken by other er governments and there 's a tremendous contrast with the way those governments have actually sought to do this , with our own government , erm no publicity whatsoever has appeared yet and again I offer the minister the chance to tell us at some later point , what the government is prepared to do to exert itself on this matter and to tell us indeed whether it wants people to register erm it is n't particularly clear whether in fact this is part of er some idea that the government has that people should n't register and I think that the minister needs to be very clear about this so that people get the message outside , because nine and a half million people did n't vote , even in the last general election . |
| 17 | One delegate commented : ‘ It could be used as a trick to keep us in residential care . ’ |
| 18 | Nearly all of these are modern chemicals we have thoughtlessly introduced into our cats ' environment to help us in various ways . |
| 19 | There would be no hard news , said the DoI , but if we were interested in learning the background it would bring together some experts on fibre optics to brief us on this new technology . |
| 20 | You know all the psychiatrists will tell you that comedy is a kind of biological mechanism to save us from all the things we fear most , death being one of the , you know , the most is just a spit away you see . |
| 21 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 22 | The problem arises because there is nothing in our day-to-day life to provide us with sufficient exercise . |
| 23 | ‘ We should look to the Holy Spirit to guide us for good news . |
| 24 | Let's pray in the silence of our hearts that God will send the Holy Spirit to fill us with promised gifts . |
| 25 | We need that one performance to get us over this losing streak . |
| 26 | In the 80s , the banks , with poor management , had conspired with government to get us into this situation . |
| 27 | For one thing it is for the Holy Spirit to tell us in that hour what we are to say , and for another thing the people we prove to be in that hour will be determined , not by our thinking about that hour , but by our thinking and living in this hour . |
| 28 | We will also provide pastoral support to help those already in mission to function more effectively and we hope to do some more pastoral training to help us in this area of work . |
| 29 | Is the purpose of a single European currency and the central bank to assist us in improving living standards by providing a level playing field or are they steps towards some kind of federal Europe ? |
| 30 | We are doing more for training than any previous Government and the Labour party is in no position to lecture us on that subject . |