Example sentences of "we [to-vb] they [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Are we to protect them from the social effects of spreading industry about the countryside ?
2 They chose us to provide them with the most reliable data network available .
3 They 've asked us to provide them with the finance one container , that 's five hundred pound , plus two hundred pound transport , which will be matched by the community council if we do it .
4 According to Ali Akbar Rafsanjani , the powerful speaker of the Iranian parliament , ‘ The Americans started contacting us through scores of channels begging us to help them in the Lebanon ; through Japan , our neighbouring countries like Pakistan , our embassies , the United Nations and numerous arms brokers . ’
5 The banks want us to pay them for the privilege of making their money from our money .
6 Far from being taken back , they were delighted by our sudden arrival , and unhesitatingly encouraged us to join them in the water .
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