Example sentences of "[coord] [verb] us [verb] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many eastern approaches are passive in that they aim to empty the mind , or help us to reach the stage whereby we become observers of our own thoughts as if we were somehow separate from them . |
| 2 | Grant McDougall , of Christie 's , said : ‘ Ray approached us and asked us to value the items . |
| 3 | The great Italian poet Leopardi had this to say : ‘ Works of genius have this intrinsic property that even when they give a perfect likeness of the nullity of things , even when they clearly demonstrate and make us feel the inevitable unhappiness of life , even when they express the most terrible despair , nevertheless … they always serve as a consolation , rekindling enthusiasm , and though speaking of and portraying nothing but death , restore to it , at least for a while , the life that it had lost . ’ |
| 4 | We were lying on the ground in a row , pointing our rifles to our fronts , as he walked past each of us and made us repeat the different orders that we would be given , such as ‘ unload ’ or ‘ cock your weapon ’ . |
| 5 | I was very taken with the piece and at that time after the war the Lucerne Festival was very interested in having the orchestra and allowing us to determine the repertory . |
| 6 | Er has been to see me about it , but I 've said that the initiative for farm watch has got to come from them , I said , we 're not gon na stand up and draw up a load of support and expect us to service the damn thing , I said it 's up to you and your members to do it , and I still think he 's trying to get us to do it via the back door , He 's been to talk to me now about it , and I 've told him exactly what I want to do and that we we 'll be involved , but it ai n't gon na be a police run scheme , it 's gon na be a farmer 's run scheme with police support locally . |
| 7 | In the meanwhile , simulation buys time and allows us to pass the baton to the next generation which may well have to face similar problems . |
| 8 | ‘ Are n't you going to stay and watch us win the prize ? ’ |
| 9 | Let us pretend that it is only that Grainne is too far above me , and let us continue the pretence , for I do not think I can bear it any other way . |
| 10 | So you either either sell back to our sixteen units of poles and let us stay the night , or come back again tomorrow . |
| 11 | He will talk to his wife about this and let us know the outcome . ’ |
| 12 | Open an account somewhere in a false name and let us have the account number . |
| 13 | The beliefs and behaviour of remote cultures challenge most profoundly our own ethnocentric experience and assumptions , and compel us to recognize the amazing variety and versatility of human social arrangements , moral standards , and cosmologies . |
| 14 | It forces us to see man in total and forces us to recognise the limitations of a positivist view of the social sciences . |
| 15 | is to show and enable us to handle the relationships that exist between geometry and function . |
| 16 | No sooner had we done so when a staff officer drove up in a car , accused us of looting and ordered us to put the tins back in the cases . |
| 17 | Gregory was unable to do so and counselled us to abandon the lesion method altogether . |
| 18 | At its best it satisfies the sense of hubris in all of us and helps us to forget the inevitable contrast between real and ideal , in human love as in every other human impulse . |
| 19 | ‘ While they play their bloody silly games and force us to do the same … ’ |
| 20 | ‘ It was the time they started sending memos out to referees , and I said straight why did n't they just get on with administration and leave us to do the bloody job on the field . |
| 21 | Is not this what we said to you in Egypt , ‘ Let us alone and let us serve the Egyptians ’ ? |
| 22 | Only days before the verdict was announced the Rev. Al Sharpton , a black Baptist minister , warned the white community that unless both Fama and Mondello were convicted of murder " you are lighting a match to the end of a powder keg and telling us to burn the town down " . |
| 23 | The APT takes this principle a stage further and enables us to define the expected risk premium of the security as a function of the risk premium of any index . |
| 24 | I 'm not trying to cast any blame here but handed over allocations on Innsbruck to at one time yeah and left us to carry the ball cos she sort of withdrew at one time |
| 25 | Please send £6 , £10 , £20 , or whatever you can afford , in the envelope provided , and help us to save the badger . |
| 26 | All of you can make a significant contribution by using your experience from your own workplace to improve our efficiency further and help us do the job ‘ right first time ’ . |
| 27 | I think the government , and John by the way has been superb to us , in terms of being willing to come along , and help us do the work we 're doing , and I 'm , I believe the government has a great interest in this field . |
| 28 | Without fear , we would be at a disadvantage ; but , because we fear ‘ Fear ’ , it becomes our master and stops us doing the very thing for which it has prepared us . |
| 29 | Claire Clairmont and the Shelleys is scholarly and sympathetic , and makes us feel the growth of Clairmont 's mind . |
| 30 | As one unionist remarked , ‘ they gave us the key , but forbade us to open the door . ’ |