Example sentences of "us [adv] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I assumed he 'd found us somewhere else to live while it was being rebuilt . |
| 2 | After a while , two soldiers in khaki ponchos came up the hill and asked us somewhat apologetically to put out the fire . |
| 3 | That leaves us only tonight to get through . ’ |
| 4 | After a song and a prayer , a priest in green vestments came on and preached a long sermon warning us all not to misuse authority . |
| 5 | The hon. Gentleman has the opportunity of warning us all not to speak for too long , because another important measure , concerning the civil rights of disabled people , is to come before the House today . |
| 6 | Yet here she is on television telling us all how to manage our lives and formulating phrases about how best to overcome adversity . |
| 7 | The Holy Spirit is God 's gift to us , and he means us not just to read about him but to make use of him . |
| 8 | The second issue , and it is closely related to the first , is whether the succession of images — and they succeed each other with alarming frequency — enables us not only to remember past events but to learn from our past mistakes . |
| 9 | The important point is that a basic awareness of body language enables us not only to recognize danger signals from other people but also to tell those around us that we do n't intend to submit meekly to being attacked . |
| 10 | The truth of the matter is that we have seen a substantial reduction in direct tax rates , a substantial improvement in standards of living and , as a result of the reduction in tax rates , an improvement in the tax base , which has enabled us not only to achieve increased public spending on a large scale in our key priority areas , especially health , but to achieve a reduction in direct income tax and , overall , considerably to improve our public sector borrowing requirement . |
| 11 | This enabled us not only to check the quality of the work but also to help if problems arose and to show the importance we attached to the role of the interviewers . |
| 12 | First , the notion of ‘ usability ’ leads us not only to focus on the eventual users of the information for whom , presumably , companies are investing significant amounts of money on more or less elaborate information-processing systems and structures . |
| 13 | Those of us near enough to have observed this were by now climbing onto chairs and beds and squealing , ‘ It 's a mouse ! ’ , but Rosie continued her progression into bed , pulled the clothes up to her nose and regarded us all with mild astonishment . |
| 14 | It would teach us also not to underestimate the sheer abundance of the world of God 's promise . |
| 15 | We all knew that the Repubblichini were tools of the Nazis , used as spies and as a police force ; but they did not know us well enough to denounce us as anti-Fascists . |
| 16 | Can you tell us how best to maintain it as winter approaches and how to stop it freezing up |
| 17 | Of course we can not expect linguists , text critics or publishers to explain to us how best to interpret , mark and process those classically ambiguous phrases which are now the stock and trade of historical data modelling exercises . |
| 18 | ‘ But wo n't they teach us how not to break our necks , sir ? ’ |
| 19 | However , while this tells us how not to solve the problem , it is less clear what positive steps we are to take — a dilemma to which I shall return later in the chapter . |
| 20 | I understand his point , but many women have written to me asking us specifically not to prevent them from working on Sundays . |