Example sentences of "i [modal v] [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You might think this a true conversation-stopper but the Queen has a comeback : ‘ I should like us to be friends . ’ |
| 2 | I 'll bring us in some coffee . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I 'll drive us to Soho . ’ |
| 4 | I 'll drive us to the rear door of a Doc Barnado 's or something . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I could check us into a motel out of town you give the number to the Liaison Office I 'll give it to my office and hope their nasty little mints think that 's all that 's going on . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ But thinking I could orchestrate us like that was pretty high-handed . ’ |
| 7 | Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd like us to be friends , ’ he said , his voice low , his face close to hers . |
| 9 | I 'd like us to , look back to that parable , or part of that parable that Jesus er , told the folk , it 's in Luke chapter fifteen . |
| 10 | I 'd like us to … to spend the evening as … as friends . ’ |
| 11 | but when we 've read those we 've got to look up what else Jesus said , remember a few months ago the passage we read from Luke thirteen and they will come from the East and the West and from the North and the South and will recline at the table in the Kingdom of God , they will come he says from all directions , we work and hold and these two scriptures intention , we 've got ta compare one with the other , then we 'll read also John in that tremendous vision in the book of revelation he would he says what he saw there , in chapter seven verse nine after these things I looked and behold a great multitude which no one could count from every nation and all tribes and peoples and tongues standing before the throne and before the lamb , clothe in white robes and palm branches were in their hands and they cried out with a loud voice saying salvation to our God who sits on the throne and to the lamb , a handful of people , tiny minority , John says it was a great number , a multitude which no one could count from every nation , from every ethnic group , from every tribe and , and , and , and race on the face of the earth there in God 's heaven how grateful you and I should be , if we are among that number , it 's God 's grace , it 's not that we 've deserved it , it 's not that we have been privileged by some genetic er process to have been born in a so called a nominally Christian country , it is all of God 's grace , it 's not what we have done or what we are , but we have been saved by his grace and just for a few moments this morning , I 'd like us to from this question that was put to Jesus to follow on and if you like get five propositions from it , it sounds complicated but it 's not . |
| 12 | Over these next few weeks I 'd like us to be looking at some of the interviews that Jesus had with various characters , sometimes with an individual , sometimes with a small group of people , and just to see some of the things that we can learn from them . |
| 13 | When Anna 's feeling well enough I would like us to be married in the same chapel as my sister and Boz . ’ |
| 14 | As we are small in numbers we can find it as we go , for maximum flexibility , but I will book us into a lodge for 2 nights on arrival to give us chance to find our feet again . |
| 15 | As one aerospace industry executive puts it , ‘ I can imagine us in 2000 with no space station , but still with a space-station programme ’ . |