Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] us for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I think BT should compensate us for the concern and inconvenience these mystery calls cause , perhaps by reducing bills for that quarter . |
| 2 | No , that 's what I 'm saying , we 've identified one person who 'll join us for the summer . |
| 3 | He used to ask us for the pearl off our coats , collars , put on the horses , make 'em all . |
| 4 | If ever he used to take us for a spare lesson , all he used to do was draw on the blackboard the scrum lineouts and things . |
| 5 | And erm you know and I had a letter then from Mr , saying that they would consider us for a place , in the flats . |
| 6 | I wonder what price the bookies would give us for a Central South treble ; that 's Oxford to win the Boat Race , Gloucester to reach the Cup Final and Swindon to beat West Brom . |
| 7 | This data set , coupled with extensive satellite observations , will give us for the first time a essentially a snapshot view of the behaviour of the ocean . |
| 8 | ‘ Mary , my dear , you will excuse us for a moment . |
| 9 | Finn 's Hotel will enable us for the first time to approach the encyclopedic Finnegans Wake with a true and not misleading knowledge of its origins and of the prototypes of its protagonists . |
| 10 | I said you had already called … she will join us for the lunch . ’ |
| 11 | and then that will take us for a period of about probably three months cos we 're saying we 'll done one at least every six weeks . |
| 12 | I imagine he is impressed and that he will invite us for a coffee after , but when I look again he is gone . |
| 13 | Having tried several adjustments to the system over the past 6 years , I hope this provides a format which will serve us for a good while into the future . |
| 14 | And he added , ‘ Please do n't send along the young pseudo-philosopher who will tell us for the umpteenth time that , of course , he fully understands the Bank 's attitude . |
| 15 | Such conflicting views or theories of style will concern us for the remainder of this chapter , but rather than argue that one view is wholly superior to another , we shall try to harmonize the apparent conflicts , so that at the end of the chapter , we shall have worked through to a balanced view of what stylistics is about . |
| 16 | This is an appalling tragedy which will haunt us for the rest of our lives . |
| 17 | We are unlikely to reach any definite agreement , but the debates will strengthen us for the next time , and weaken the impact of tangential arguments about policy presentation . |
| 18 | Many of the water companies are now considering installing meters so that they can charge us for the amount of water we have actually used . |