Example sentences of "[vb pp] [to-vb] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ A curious time you have picked to tell us of this , Michael Riven , ’ Murtach said , smiling wryly . |
| 2 | This tendency to associate — designed to warn us of impending danger-can in fact work against us . |
| 3 | ‘ Ah , Mildred , I see you 've decided to rejoin us at last . |
| 4 | As the great British biologist/mathematician J.B.S. Haldane commented , human beings would be hard pressed , however long natural selection acted upon them , to sprout the wings of an angel ; we just do not have the genes that would even begin to provide the appropriate structures , and past selection has never acted to provide us with these structures . |
| 5 | I would have liked to take them off but the situation was still uncertain , and everyone still believed that the German forces were determined to push us off this high ground east of the Orne . |
| 6 | But who is qualified to lead us on this Crusade ? |