Example sentences of "us [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says they told us to wait for two hours which we did then they told us to wait another hour and a half . |
| 2 | A youth training fund would enable us to continue this scheme , not only with a view to employment , but enabling us to provide training and development of personal skills , which would benefit them in future employment or future education . |
| 3 | Some of us contemplate this prospect with horror . |
| 4 | Erm and we find in the office that we get lots of forms coming in from the Paymaster General asking us to confirm that mister X is employed you know on a on a part time basis . |
| 5 | Er the other fire fighters would enable us to hit that target on a regular basis and in fact we will also the target during those periods when . |
| 6 | Finally , let us rekindle that vision in Isaiah 11 where the lion does not eat the lamb but lies down in a symbiotic relationship with it . |
| 7 | But think of this as us helping each other — you get the promotion , and I get to take out the most beautiful woman in the office ! ’ he winked . |
| 8 | We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own . |
| 9 | ‘ I do n't want us to lose each other , ’ she said . |
| 10 | Given the very recent appointment of a Head of Scientific & Technical Services , it has not been possible to formulate the likely requirements for laboratory computing for 1993/94 , but discussions during 1993 will enable us to plan this work from 1994/95 onwards . |
| 11 | He is nervous , Preston thought , he wants us to like each other . |
| 12 | Let us relate this statement to the example above . |
| 13 | It is difficult for us to acknowledge that violence and destruction , on both sides , are expressions of ‘ rational ’ behaviour ; that ‘ reason ’ may be at the heart of violence . |
| 14 | ‘ It claims that we first select a particular task that we wish to carry out , and then select the appropriate machine which will enable us to perform this task . |
| 15 | But let us regard that stage as over , there was a gesture to be made , and you have made it , and I am grateful ! |
| 16 | Seeing Renaissance writing deploying its resources to justify genocide as moral , divinely justified and ‘ civilising ’ , forces us to accept that Renaissance literature 's role has too frequently been accepted as unquestionably an instrument of enlightenment in some unexplored way . |
| 17 | The fact that believing in God involves an acceptance of uncertainty does not allow us to accept any degree of uncertainty , or that trust will also be misplaced . |
| 18 | Let us consider each level of knowledge individually . |
| 19 | Let us consider this question . |
| 20 | Let us consider this line at its worst and discount the farm , which can be counted only as ‘ corroborative ’ evidence of alignment , and even then only if prehistoric remains are to be found there . |
| 21 | Let us consider this paradox . |
| 22 | Finally , let us consider some motion verbs that have built-in deictic components , English come vs. go makes some sort of distinction between the direction of motion relative to participants in the speech event ( the exposition here follows Fillmore , 1966 , 1975 : 50ff ) . |
| 23 | Let us consider another analogy , this time not so contrasting . |
| 24 | Some are evidently more equal than others in this system of justice ; let us consider another example . |
| 25 | ‘ It was crucial for us to secure this contract . |
| 26 | But we desperately need the public to help us win this battle . ’ |
| 27 | I resent the inference in your questions that one of us visited that apothecary and secured the poison to carry the murder out . ’ |
| 28 | The general SVQ in care at level II has allowed us to plug this gap . |
| 29 | For example , if we seek a document on the economic history of Germany and we know that works on history are arranged first by country , then by social process and then by period , it will be easier for us to find this document than if the subdivision was less systematic . |
| 30 | John rather 's expectations regarding the amounts , they 're very ambitious indeed and I ca n't speak for Salisbury Park but if we 're expected to pay a share of any alterations and so forth erm it would be very difficult for us to meet that commitment . |