Example sentences of "they [vb infin] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 've got to persuade them to invest in us — to make them see us as the means by which they can topple the Seven . ’ |
| 2 | This is not to say that we need take so unconscionable a time to establish industrial democracy , but only that it would be naive to suppose that there will be no doubts and difficulties — and that it would be a great mistake to let them deter us from starting from present worse to go to prospective better . |
| 3 | Let them lead us to it . |
| 4 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 5 | May they preserve us from the hermetic seal . |
| 6 | As recorded by British Broadcasting Corporation ( BBC ) monitoring , he had made the observation that we humans have a short life , and tomorrow we are all going to die , but his last words touched on the need for a return to democracyand for Islam to keep pace with modernization : We see the states that have overtaken us : what did they overtake us with ? |
| 7 | What on earth would they nick us for ? ’ |
| 8 | Will they ring us with that tomorrow morning ? |
| 9 | But will they reach us before this horrid stuff covers us ? thought Fenella , frantically . |
| 10 | What can they tell us about the nature of an economy ? |
| 11 | what time would they let us in ? |
| 12 | May they remind us of birthdays and other gift-days as they teach us the secret that all life is meant for celebration and contemplation . |
| 13 | Returning to our table of signatures , what do they teach us about this particular Bible ? |
| 14 | Do n't let them stampede us into anything , we 'll make up our own minds . |