Example sentences of "[vb infin] us for the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I said you had already called … she will join us for the lunch . ’ |
| 2 | No , that 's what I 'm saying , we 've identified one person who 'll join us for the summer . |
| 3 | 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 . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | There are all kinds and levels of faith but only one God who will accept or reject us for the lives we live today . |
| 6 | If in past decades we waited for the telegram to arrive , it did not lessen the shock , but it did prepare us for the event . |
| 7 | I think BT should compensate us for the concern and inconvenience these mystery calls cause , perhaps by reducing bills for that quarter . |
| 8 | May God forgive us for the age in which we live . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ( Jakobson associates relationships of contiguity with the figure metonymy , and those of equivalence with that of metaphor , a point which need not concern us for the moment , but which will become relevant in the discussion of Lacan later . ) |
| 11 | This is an appalling tragedy which will haunt us for the rest of our lives . |