Example sentences of "we [to-vb] [prep] [noun sg] [prep] " in BNC.

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1 At the end of the evening Surkov was surrounded by a group of admirers soliciting autographs , and he shouted at us to go on back to the hotel , he would join us in a while .
2 He recommends the phrase ‘ care of the body ’ to be used in discussion with clients and continues to surprise us by telling us that in his experience of funeral-arranging he has never yet had anything but a positive response to , ‘ Would you like us to look after mother in our usual way , so that you will be assured of having an everlasting memory of her sleeping peacefully and at rest ? ’
3 My world of science is so much richer than theirs , because I not only know the systematic names , but I am also fluent in the trivial ones , the scientific nicknames which allow us to chat about science over coffee .
4 It is certainly important for us to keep in touch with the Palestinians , which is why I answered the original supplementary question carefully .
5 It is important for us to keep in touch with the Palestinians .
6 As one House of Representatives committee chairman told the Eisenhower administration in 1953 : ‘ do n't expect us to start from scratch on what you people want .
7 It therefore makes good sense for us to control for date of birth when looking at the effects of terminal education age .
8 The gospel calls us to live in readiness for that hour .
9 It takes its structure from a set of correspondences between elements and persons , and the old definition of temperament as a mixture of qualities is present to the reader 's mind — the same definition that permits us to think of Faussone as a part of Levi , or as his alter ego .
10 In this sermon on prayer , I want us to think about prayer as a two-way conversation in which we talk to God and in which we listen to him as well .
11 If the death of our parents helps us to think about death in a constructive way and to prepare for our own , the experience is neither negative nor morbid but of positive value and importance .
12 He wishes us to get into training for thrashing Cranborne . ’
13 For us to stay in contention in this group we need to get some sort of result .
14 The psalms let us hear the exultant shouts of the worshippers , and allow us to join in imagination with the pilgrims who go up to Jerusalem to keep the festivals .
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