Example sentences of "[to-vb] us [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It appears that the next stage is to look for suitable sites and I am told that you will be able to provide us with a large scale map of the area for this purpose . |
| 2 | John and his team have already extracted considerable concessions from the Inland Revenue , which means that the majority of us will be able to continue as before , i.e. we will be able to satisfy the Inland Revenue that the majority of priests do not have the liability to tax on their income from the Church , without the need for the Inland Revenue to meet us on an individual basis . |
| 3 | TO our delight Edinburgh 's own novelist Lucilla Andrews accepted and invitation to visit us for a formal presentation of some signed copies of her books . |
| 4 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 5 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 6 | The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two . |
| 7 | Well our company decided to send us for a fucking first aid course and this , it 's er most embarrassing on this particular night we 'd stopped in er in the Chapel Hill in Lisburn |
| 8 | It is a difficult process , since it has to be directed against one 's mental processes , which are designed to protect us from an alien world . |
| 9 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 10 | Whenever a stranger approaches , we can not allow him to enter our private area until we are sure he is safe and friendly , because , if he is not , he will easily be able to surprise us with a sudden attack . |
| 11 | Health expenditure increased , but not by enough to lift us to a comparable position with our main industrial competitors . |
| 12 | The ‘ Dust in the air suspended ’ seems to present us with a barren desert of death . |
| 13 | Then on 7 May we had the visit of Mamie Magnusson , who kindly agreed at short notice to launch our Christian Aid Sale by coming to present us with an autographed copy of her enthralling history of the Woman 's Guild 's first century . |
| 14 | Surely the language of religion is being used to direct us towards a new kind of philosophy , for which no language of its own exists . |
| 15 | In an interview for L'Humanité published on 5 April Karmal rejected ‘ any plan aimed at the adoption of decisions in our stead ’ , including efforts ‘ to bind us to a so-called ‘ neutralisation ’ , which represents in fact only one of the forms of neo-colonialism ’ . |
| 16 | Last week he promised to supply us with a written explanation of the way his company had treated Debbie , but it never arrived . |
| 17 | Mam chose instead to take us to a different hill station every year so that we travelled the length and breadth of India , from Kashmir in the far north-west , four days ' journey by train and road , to the Nilgiri near Simla , and Darjeeling . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | ‘ To celebrate this remarkable new breakthrough in British holiday technology , we are inviting the press to join us on a special round trip to Sharjah , the Pearl of the Trucial Riviera , next month … ’ |
| 20 | There was a good deal of shrubbery trailed up the sides and it would have been difficult to see us by a casual glance along the terrace . |
| 21 | Our thanks go to Mrs Margaret ( Peggy ) Kaye , a member of the Fareham Branch , and an ex-pat WAAF , who writes to us from Orlando , Florida to tell us of a moving memorial service that took place at Arcadia , Florida on 27 May 1991 . |