Example sentences of "for us [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And it is for us surely to open ourselves without prejudice to the shape that it will take in the future . |
| 2 | But clearly it is another factor that would make it the less satisfactory for us simply to refuse the application without more . |
| 3 | It 's much better , I feel , from the public 's point of view , for us simply to say ‘ Yes , I think although it will be cloudy until the latter end of the morning that we confidently expect the sun to break through , and then when it 's through it 'll stay with us through the afternoon . |
| 4 | Do you do you not think it would be better for us both to speak to ? speak to her and say obviously you were upset about not getting the job but this non- communication thing is not really erm going to you know be good for the sales office in the long term . |
| 5 | It is difficult for us today to enter fully into the power that those ancient rituals must have generated , but anyone who has attended a religious revival meeting with its emphasis on repentance , tears and rebirth is in touch with the same forces . |
| 6 | Now , if Edinburgh District want to talk to us about Ingleston , and we do n't want to upset them , we 'll talk to them , but it would have to be an in , and enormous financial attraction for us even to consider that . |
| 7 | ‘ That , of course , obviates the need for us even to attempt to detect or frame coherent theories of motivation . |
| 8 | Yeah I think on the er i it is n't for us here to decide the level of contributions . |
| 9 | ‘ Ever since I have been here the fans have kept talking about the derby — and pleading for us not to lose it . |
| 10 | She said she had held the document back for so long because she was afraid it would re-open old wounds for my mother and because she felt sure it was better for us not to know what it contained . ’ |
| 11 | The time is not right for us seriously to consider the proposition . |
| 12 | And it 's an opportunity for her and me to say a couple of words to us , and for us certainly to thank her very much for her service . |
| 13 | I want to have this man drive me in his car all night long , for us never to arrive anywhere … but if we should then let the gates swing silently open , let there be a long gravel drive , let it be like when the young master comes home from school . |
| 14 | yet without answers to these questions and others like them , it is impossible for us fully to understand our own history and , more importantly , impossible to advise today 's emergent nations on the routes they should be following . |
| 15 | I see no reason for us actually to go through the whole pros and cons . |
| 16 | ‘ We were all set to come to Czechoslovakia for her to see you and for us then to take a holiday while her husband was doing some work in America . |
| 17 | It is not enough for us only to see the need of the contract ( the essence of level one ) or even the attractiveness and reliability of the terms ( levels two and three ) . |
| 18 | That has been our major worry and I think for us now to go away and just allow it to go ahead , twenty years on , without any improvements , without the link road and without improvements to Hill I think is an abdication of our duties and I really do think that . |
| 19 | It is paramount for us now to retain high interest rates , which are high in the historic sense , in real terms , and are high compared with Japan , and with America , where they stand at 5 per cent . |
| 20 | It is difficult for us now to understand how it was that so many serious thinkers in those days were prophetically-minded . |
| 21 | There some of the inhabitants commit some kind of sacrilege which it is hard for us now to decipher . |