Example sentences of "[vb past] us [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eadred invited us to sit round the table . |
| 2 | ‘ We decided to build a balcony with steps going down to the garden , but our builder advised us to think about the year-round advantages of a conservatory , ’ Claudia explained . |
| 3 | Mazzin came and told us to lie along the inside wall together . |
| 4 | Our debate on this intended insult by the French was summarily ended : a wand-bearing chamberlain told us to assemble in the great hall below for the rare privilege of an audience with His Most Christian Majesty . |
| 5 | He told us to sit by the fire . |
| 6 | Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do . |
| 7 | Needless to say , when the local newscaster finally ended our agony and allowed us to return to the cricket , we discovered that the England captain had been dismissed . |
| 8 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |
| 9 | and erm , we both decided we 'd take this diploma and er Mr erm in his kindness let us erm erm go off to the workshops and do some practical work and erm my wife lived at Stow Upland and I was lodging in Ipswich and er he even allowed us to study in the , in the erm Enquiry Office in the evenings . |
| 10 | This label allowed us to start from the simple proposition that in some classrooms more than one teacher was present and to explore without preconception what they were doing . |
| 11 | They both urged us to go to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 12 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 13 | It was that independence which enabled us to participate in the Gulf war and to initiate the Falklands conflict without having to secure the agreement of our 11 Community colleagues . |
| 14 | Examining patients with and without uraemia enabled us to look at the gastric mucosal damage over a very wide range ( 43 fold ) of in vivo ammonia production making it unlikely that any association was missed . |
| 15 | This argument turned out to be the one that forced us to admit in the first place that we do not know that we are not brains in vats . |
| 16 | Another time he got us to lie on the floor with our legs in the air . |
| 17 | Misinformation from respected sources led us to state in the Feedback section of our November issue that the neck on the recently reviewed Manson ‘ Classic S ’ guitar was Japanese in origin . |
| 18 | These questions led us to think about the relationship between the public world of politics , government , industry and commerce , and the private world of the family , kinship and domestic arrangements . |
| 19 | He asked us to stay by the door while he walked a short way down his garden . |
| 20 | He briefed us , and asked us to keep to the paths of the ‘ visitors ’ trail' . |
| 21 | Hunky Richard Fairbrass , 31-year-old frontman for the Freds , explains : ‘ We thought they wanted us to dance around the flames . |
| 22 | ‘ No-one wanted us to go to the spot where he died it 's right in the middle of what they call ‘ bandit ’ territory . |
| 23 | Barry Pearson , Darlington 's principal environmental health officer , explained : ‘ Rothmans wanted us to pay for the hire of the centre and the money was n't immediately available . |
| 24 | a star and wanted us to share in the good luck . |