Example sentences of "[vb infin] us [prep] the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the de-Marxisation of their project by him and the ‘ death of the social ’ which he has announced should alert us to the doubts raised by Raymond Williams on the issue of certain types of Utopianism . |
| 2 | I 'd say , nothing , we 've just been up there , and he 'd smack us across the chops with the er gloves , and say , go on , and do n't let me see you here again . |
| 3 | This zest should be carried into the transcendent and should bring us to the horizons of mental thought . |
| 4 | Ca n't you see us in the movies ? |
| 5 | The gospels do not furnish us with the materials for a modern-style biography , nor do they give us a window into Jesus ' mind by which we could peer into his inmost soul . |
| 6 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 7 | ‘ Bragad will miss us from the negotiations , ’ said Murtach . |
| 8 | ‘ That will take us to the cities where we can buy more . |
| 9 | ‘ You can take us to the graves , Sir James ? ’ |
| 10 | The driver would take us to the police . |
| 11 | A committee of professors , who were also our teachers , would judge us on the marks we had had during the past four years , especially this last year , and award diplomas accordingly . |
| 12 | Nathan and I are quite alone , many miles from civilization and , apparently , lost , the wind having blown snow across the tracks ahead suggests that we just let the dogs lead us towards the others , a well-reasoned idea that works perfectly . |
| 13 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 14 | Too easily it becomes a self-fulfilling prophecy : ‘ We ca n't expect the majority of students to do very well — so do n't blame us for the failures . ’ |
| 15 | What can this theory tell us about the changes in the UK economy 's international position in the structural changes of the 1970s/1980s ? |
| 16 | These can help us in making assignments and can tell us about the vibrations of molecular ions . |
| 17 | Thus a detailed knowledge of the material conditions in which communities have lived will tell us about the constraints under which they have laboured ; and this in turn will help us to understand some of their properties . |
| 18 | could , could you tell us about the ways in which you as a child used to try and get some money for yourself and the family ? |
| 19 | It will tell us about the individuals ' ability to make and maintain new relationships . |
| 20 | Too close an identification will blind us to the shortcomings of the institutional Church , so that church growth becomes denominational aggrandisement . |
| 21 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 22 | They can drive us into the arms of God , or into the clutches of evil . |
| 23 | There are all kinds and levels of faith but only one God who will accept or reject us for the lives we live today . |
| 24 | In turn , this should also remind us of the limitations for the mosaicist of over-ornate sketches . |
| 25 | It would remind us of the days of our youth mixing with Greeks and Arabs and Armenians in strange corners of the world . ’ |