Example sentences of "[vb base] us [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I suppose you 've come to tell me you want us to go straight back to Olbia ? ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Unless you want us to use non-inflammable silk ? ’ |
| 3 | ‘ If they want us to service local communities , we must be accountable to them . |
| 4 | Want us to cover everyday conversation ! |
| 5 | Most of our free time in the afternoons and evenings is taken up with preparation , as the Chinese want us to produce detailed summaries in advance of our lectures . |
| 6 | ‘ Virginia , if you want us to stay just friends , go now , ’ he muttered hoarsely , reaching out to circle her upper arms . |
| 7 | First , let us assume fixed proportions in production . |
| 8 | Leaving aside the question of which came first , let us assume active interest on the part of the man , and a potential interest on the part of the woman . |
| 9 | Let us give special thought today to those people who have devoted their lives to helping the poor and needy in impoverished parts of the world . |
| 10 | Let us skirt round professor Joan Bicknell , a major authority in child psychiatry . |
| 11 | Let us consider possible distortions and ways in which we can minimize their effect . |
| 12 | For a continuously varying trait ( let us use human size as an example ) , the value of the trait in an individual is probably determined by what genes it has at a large number of genetic loci , together with the effect of the environment . |
| 13 | So let us see quantitative stylistics as serving a role in the " circle of explanation " ( see Fig 1.1 ) as follows . |
| 14 | It would be artificial to limit our understanding of style to one of them , let us say authorial style , and exclude the others . |
| 15 | The imperfections of our parents cause us to generate compensatory emotions that go on influencing us throughout life . |
| 16 | It is often argued , for example , that concepts of country and city give us decreasing analytical purchase on the way in which advanced capitalist societies are developing . |
| 17 | And when I say the country I do n't mean one of those villages just off the motorway full of people just like us buying Australian Chardonnay from the local wine merchant and the only time you hear an ooo-aarr accent is when you 're listening to the Archers in the bath . |
| 18 | Teach us to quarry grand designs |
| 19 | The advertising media ( that includes TV , magazines and newspapers , posters and packaging ) use this to good effect when they encourage us to buy certain products . |
| 20 | Recent field studies of the extant great apes by Wrangham , MacKinnon , and Dian Fossey allow us to formulate new models of the relations between social organization and ecology of these species and to present them in terms of the reproductive and social strategies of individuals . |
| 21 | These data allow us to clarify important observations on the Hotteterres made by their contemporary Borjon de Scellery in his Traité de la musette , in which he cites a father and two sons of the Hotteterre family as the ‘ most esteemed ’ makers of woodwind instruments and in particular of musettes and flutes . |
| 22 | It did n't come back with a refusal and allow us to discuss alternative ways of achieving our objective . |
| 23 | All of these areas enable us to create long term partnerships with the groups and organisations we 're committed to help , and all of them enrich I B M's own long term aims . |
| 24 | … perhaps the computer … will alter our minds and powers of analysis once again , and enable us to create new dimensions in the deep-down logic of characters . |
| 25 | In order to resolve our underlying conflicts and problems , we find partners who enable us to replay old scenes . |
| 26 | The reason for the excitement in using lasers is that they enable us to study unstable nuclei , which was not previously possible . |
| 27 | The value of concepts and cognitive structures is that they enable us to classify events and to make judgments and ( unlike repertoires of behaviours and lists of facts ) enable us to solve new problems . |
| 28 | Nevertheless , the four categories enable us to identify common features of some of the different types of documents which we shall now consider in detail . |
| 29 | Environmental policies which did not take economic concerns into account were " doomed to fail " , he said , whereas " there is no better ally in the service of our environment than strong economies , economies that make possible increased efficiencies , that enable us to make environmental gains , economies that can generate new technologies and help us arrest and reverse the damage done to our environment " . |
| 30 | Help us encourage new members ( we always need new members ) by joining the rota to do an occasional drop . |