Example sentences of "they [vb base] us [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They expect us as a matter of course to advise them if they should be taking advantage of their inheritance and capital gains tax exemptions and to ensure that the share capital structure of their companies is maintained to ensure they are not in control for any tax-related purpose , but can still ensure young Harry is kept in his place . |
| 2 | And a lot of talking points for Jimmy Greaves and Tony back in the studio at half time to discuss when they rejoin us after the break with the score here at Filbert Street Leicester City one Nottingham Forest nil . |
| 3 | They provide us with a first-hand and unique record of cooking as it was understood and practised in the kitchens and still-rooms of aristocratic houses of the first half of the seventeenth century . |
| 4 | As with the stereotypes we refer to in the business of everyday life , we know they are not , and can not be , comprehensively true or correct , but they provide us with an indispensable framework within which we can interpret particular instances . |
| 5 | He was just doing the ‘ Hunky Dory ’ album but we did n't know that , Anyway , we got in touch with The Country Club and they put us on the guest list and Cherry Vanilla , Wayne County and I , posing as journalists , went along to see him . |
| 6 | Er it erm er the result was that you was really working flat out all the summer , and then as the winter advanced , you got very short of work , and they put us on the dole , for half a week . |
| 7 | The V bomb , V bombers and the doodlebugs and er when he came home it was nineteen forty six I think or seven er , my fath er my mother had died and my father wanted to get away from the place we were in and we said oh well go ahead you know , we 'll easily get somewhere and of course we did n't and they put us in a Nissan hut , which we made absolutely beautiful , we did all sorts of things to it and had a lovely garden all around it and the people from the Council use to come around and say to us oh well you do n't need to be rehoused because you 've made this so very nice you see , anyway I then started to work for the Corporation and then there was the possibility of course |
| 8 | ‘ They put us in the back . |
| 9 | Then they put us in the block . |
| 10 | They put us in the padded room overnight . |
| 11 | When I came up they put us in the detention room on the house for pregnant women . |
| 12 | Then they put us in the Fleming Hospital in Newcastle , me and the bairn , because I had nowhere else to go . |
| 13 | They put us in the deep end with everything that came along , you know , you really had to learn by doing it . |
| 14 | they 're good for patronage , they encourage people who have money to er , to put it into the arts , they 're they promote stability and they they save us from a dictatorship , is that it ? |
| 15 | Not only are the results of such ‘ on site ’ studies of immense value for what we assume they tell us about the role of our body clock in affecting mental performance , but they also serve two further roles . |
| 16 | Each of these versions has its own authenticity ; and editorial decisions are interesting in their own right ( and merit investigation ) for what they tell us about the times when they were made ( for example , the Tutuola revisions tell us about British attitudes during the 1960s to the English of non-native speakers ) . |
| 17 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 18 | Moreover , such texts are the more dangerous in that they affect us at a subconscious level . |
| 19 | How well they remind us of the purpose for which the ark has been fetched ! |
| 20 | In their ‘ rightness ’ they leave us with a profound sense of ‘ wrongness ’ which many of us store to considerable effect , decades later . |
| 21 | They take us across the frontiers between the material and the mystical . |
| 22 | ‘ They 're not snooty and they take us down the pub for a drink if we 've done a good job . ’ |
| 23 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 24 | They enlighten us on the mystery , we are grateful to them , we trust them and then we buy their product . |
| 25 | They pit us against a Titan … in an armour-glass arena . |
| 26 | They beat us in a pre-season friendly at Ibrox but we are not even thinking about that game . |
| 27 | ’ They virtually killed off our season when they beat us in the FA Cup at Stamford Bridge last year , but now we have the incentive of setting up another Mersey derby if we win . ’ |