Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [prep] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We hope that you will continue to provide us with this vital information as we embark together on the second piloting year . |
| 2 | Not only were the British Consul staff unable to answer questions about the search and weather conditions , but they were also reluctant to provide us with any basic help . |
| 3 | Derelict railway lines are now covered with earth or ashes and grass-seeded , well disguised as useful paths to lead us through this extraordinary cheek-by-jowl-with-industry urban reserve . |
| 4 | Our thanks to these , and to all the friends of THE FACE who have given their time and money so generously to help us through this difficult time . |
| 5 | Our thanks to them and to everyone who gave so generously of their time and money to help us through this difficult time . |
| 6 | Chris Patten , the Secretary of State for the Environment , later countered : ‘ If the Labour Party are accusing us of an electoral bribe , it shows that they find it rather difficult to criticise us on any other grounds . ’ |
| 7 | There would be no hard news , said the DoI , but if we were interested in learning the background it would bring together some experts on fibre optics to brief us on this new technology . |
| 8 | Fisher Row is a special case , but Dr Prior 's fascinating study has much to teach us about other occupational groups within our urban societies . |
| 9 | This simile of the mustard seed is not to call us to some great Cecil B Demille-like ambition . |
| 10 | Two young , fit squaddies desperately need the help of any females from 16 to 55 to save us from this dull and boring existence- Please , please keep us from talking to the penguins any longer — write now ! |
| 11 | We need that one performance to get us over this losing streak . |
| 12 | But to break us into this new er schooling the Headmaster had us in various mornings for an hour and was supposed , well tried , to make a sort of summary of what the lesson would have been in standard three . |
| 13 | After start-up funds from the Gulbenkian to employ our data-base operator , we have now received some funds from the Baring Foundation to assist us in this major task . |
| 14 | Well that 's going free to the first person to ring us on three double one , one double one with the answers to these three questions , listen carefully . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ We are urging licensees to join us in encouraging sensible drinking because it in their own interests . ’ |
| 17 | And surely any dramatist ought to be able to move us with that final night of Holly 's life , when his musicians ( including Waylon Jennings ) gave their places on the ‘ plane to the Big Bopper and Ritchie Valens . |
| 18 | If we choose not to include the lasting works in the lonely mountains , only church registers survive to remind us of this remarkable facet of Keswick , and indeed Coniston 's , past history . |
| 19 | Many fine details — beautiful 16thcentury wooden ceilings , 15th-century painted glass , and a grand fireplace in the presence chamber — remain to remind us of this original purpose . |
| 20 | This tendency to associate — designed to warn us of impending danger-can in fact work against us . |
| 21 | B : Well , the milkman has come All that we can reasonably expect a semantic theory to tell us about this minimal exchange is that there is at least one reading that we might paraphrase as follows : ( 2 ) A : Do you have the ability to tell me the time ? |
| 22 | It 's not to make us into some spiritual superstars , like some great leader of the past or present . |