Example sentences of "[to-vb] we [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's an awful thing to say , but the revenue to pull us out of this recession has to come from somewhere , ’ she said . |
| 2 | ‘ It 's an awful thing to say , but the revenue to pull us out of this recession has to come from somewhere , ’ she said . |
| 3 | Yet this epidemic of self-inflicted slaughter seems to pass us by with little front page news in the national Press . |
| 4 | Although this project failed to come to fruition even with Apple behind it — it was to lead us indirectly into more than a decade of adventuring in some of the most remote regions of Indonesia . |
| 5 | It made us able to stand up on our own two feet , to sharpen us up in many respects . |
| 6 | I 've got a helicopter due to pick us up in half an hour , and the Citation 's on stand-by . |
| 7 | Helen had agreed to help us out on this day of days , and she and I rescued the trolley and staggered around , heaving Changez 's junk into the back of the big Rover . |
| 8 | ‘ It 's remarkably kind of you to put us up like this , and we 're both very grateful . ’ |
| 9 | It coincided with the Suez Canal Crisis and Nasser 's decision to kick us out in 1956 . |
| 10 | None of these difficulties are likely to trouble us much in daily life , but they remain genuine difficulties none the less and raise issues of fundamental importance ; for if there can be no absolutely reliable and unequivocal criteria for deciding whether any given existent remains numerically , and not merely qualitatively , the same from one moment in time to the next , then we can not hope to be able to " define " the distinction between numerical and qualitative identity in terms of the criteria of particular-identification . |
| 11 | We welcome and encourage people who want to have a look at us — not only to understand ‘ what we 're about , ’ but , perhaps , to check us out as prospective employers . |
| 12 | ‘ You can depend on that ! ’ , he added , ‘ Nobody is going to get us away from this place again . ’ |
| 13 | Over the season it will be good enough to get us out of this division provided we stick together . |
| 14 | ‘ I ca n't think how to get us out of this one . |
| 15 | To think of the super Thou and link it with emotional thoughts such as compassion is to bind us together with invisible but powerful bands . |
| 16 | But Labour 's prospectus is simply not designed to haul us out of any recession . |
| 17 | To take us up on this unusual opportunity , simply call us , toll free , at the number shown , or mail the reservation application below . |
| 18 | Our journeys , we found , were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds . |
| 19 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 20 | Given that the second Tory recession is set to cost 550,000 manufacturing jobs and 100,000 companies and is set to put the United Kingdom at the bottom of the European Community league table on under-investment and employment in 1992 , will the right hon. Gentleman now admit that urgent action is needed to boost employment in Britain to take us out of this situation ? |
| 21 | Now we used to clean the bottom up cos used to be a big boiler in the dredger and erm we used to close down every six weeks , which they used to call blow the boiler down , that mean that they open the valve and the heat used to take all the water into the river , so er , that used to be blown down Friday night , come Saturday morning we 'd start at six o'clock and chip all the fur off inside the boiler , cos the boiler was made with all and what we call the crown , that used to be the two furnaces , cos they 're double the big boiler were a double furnace and we had to chip all that fur off them , well it used to take us now from six o'clock in the morning or say seven when we got there had to go down the tug and er go down the tug and erm , then we go aboard and strip off . |
| 22 | Either it is an instance of a proof by reductio ad absurdum , in which we assume something true in order to prove it false ; or it is a way of exposing a paradox within the concept of knowledge , for the sceptic can surely insist that if a central concept such as that of knowledge can be used to take us validly from true premises to a false or impossible conclusion , something is wrong with the concept ; there is probably some internal tension which should be exposed rather than swept under the carpet . |
| 23 | They used to move us round from one home to another all the time . |
| 24 | By effectively refusing to consider a particular type of ball for Category A tournaments , the Association would appear , in Mr MacCaughey 's words of response , ‘ … to treat us equally with other companies , when it comes to paying over the proposal fee and the contribution of free of charge tennis balls ( another condition of the Agreement ) , but are unwilling to do so when it comes to exposure at major events . ’ |
| 25 | Some of these , no doubt , are very satisfactory to us in our present state of opinion about the constitution of bodies , but there are others which are likely to startle us out of our complacency and perhaps ultimately to drive us out of all the hypotheses in which we have hitherto found refuge into that thoroughly conscious ignorance which is a prelude to every real advance.in knowledge . |
| 26 | Although it will be close to midnight before the game ends , the trains of Boston 's admirable underground , the T , will be waiting to carry us away in orderly and good natured hordes . |
| 27 | And I think Willi is about to sit us down for one of his gargantuan dinners . ’ |
| 28 | It is strange to be confronted by a man who seems to want us around at any price . |
| 29 | What this study wo n't do is to tell us much about specific industries such as our own because the numbers involved will almost certainly be too small to pinpoint effects so precisely . |
| 30 | It now remained to be seen whether this headman would be able to hand us over to another in Bahdu . |