Example sentences of "the [noun sg] [to-vb] us [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shareen , you 're very much part of the er , the attempt to help us all use alcohol a little bit more sensibly , what , what , what is this strategy ? |
| 2 | A few days beforehand , Jack Cornelius suggested a jaunt into the countryside to cheer us all up . |
| 3 | ‘ Yes , ’ I said , looking round for the waitress to give us more coffee , ‘ I still hate vomit . |
| 4 | Help the candidate to help us both match the person to the job and vice versa ? |
| 5 | He also uses personification rather a lot throughout the novel to give us more of an idea of what he was experiencing . |
| 6 | We would love to put out title on the line , if the IRB had the guts and the vision to give us that chance . |
| 7 | Trace 's new baby bass combo has been brought into the world to convince us that small can be beautiful … |
| 8 | Half a century ago , youths in Wellington bombers flew out to deal death and have it dealt to them in return ; now the American F-111s roar overhead , and , from time to time , a plume of orange flame and a cloud of smoke appear on the horizon to remind us all that dishing it out and taking it are widely differing talents . |
| 9 | ‘ You might have had the decency to order us some drink that was n't called Jim . ’ |
| 10 | So if we could lie down for twenty minutes sometime in the afternoon or early evening , then we would lengthen the spine to support us more efficiently for the latter part of the day . |
| 11 | Looking back on that visit , as I sometimes do , I find it difficult to reconcile the warm , charming and amusing hostess who spared the time to entertain us that day with the latter-day basso profundo screecher of the House of Commons and the earnest , ingratiating gusher of numerous television interviews ( performances which make me dream wistfully of the old saw , ‘ In the ideal society politics should be as unobtrusive as drains ’ ) . |