Example sentences of "us [to-vb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | We never considered giving up our work with the chimps when the children were born , but it would not have been possible for us to continue without the help of the Africans — I always had two men employed to take care of the children when I went with Christophe into the forest . ’ |
| 2 | We felt that this new improved offer would enable us to continue in the short term notwithstanding the fact that we still estimated our losses under the new proposals at something in the region of £67,000 . |
| 3 | The men did n't like us to sit on the platform . |
| 4 | It was just warm enough for us to sit at the table outside and drink cool wine in the fading sun . |
| 5 | He told us to sit by the fire . |
| 6 | Eadred invited us to sit round the table . |
| 7 | This was Madge , who made costumes for the rest of us to wear at the party nights . |
| 8 | He is near enough for his bulk to cut out the reflection of the sky and so his own reflection does not reproduce his colours but allows us to see into the water . |
| 9 | In the words of his 1906 paper , ‘ the seismograph enables us to see into the earth and to determine its nature … as if we could drive a tunnel through it . ’ |
| 10 | Cos she showed up , a lot of them show tendency at home or er say some of the ones she 's just asked us to see in the office anyway . |
| 11 | There was , however , no necessity for us to go down the hill for water , for if we continued a little further we should find a good spring on the road . |
| 12 | It 's been a godsend for us to go down the street shopping , if you 've got a load of shopping you just stop right outside the gate . |
| 13 | They both urged us to go to the 2ème Régiment Étranger de Parachutistes . |
| 14 | Why did he tell us to go to the front stairs ? ’ |
| 15 | At the moment the er the regulators ask us to go to the to the customers , and this we have done , and produce something called market plans . |
| 16 | We went to bed — she was going to catch a plane and Dad said it was too late for us to go to the airport . |
| 17 | ‘ No-one wanted us to go to the spot where he died it 's right in the middle of what they call ‘ bandit ’ territory . |
| 18 | Do you want us to go to the store ? |
| 19 | While the Capital Guarantee Bond may be a fairly simple product it more or less requires us to go through the same process as all other new products . |
| 20 | Then he told us to go into the hospital where the nurse would show us what to do . |
| 21 | It was rare for us to go into the city together . |
| 22 | As for the connection between his father 's lauded status as an artist and the activities of the Fundació , Miquel Tàpies is also committed to establishing a distinct identity : ‘ It 's important for us to go beyond the name ’ . |
| 23 | Even with such insight it has to be said : we go to the exotic other to lose everything , including ourselves — everything that is but the privilege which enabled us to go in the first place . |
| 24 | Cos there 's too many of us to go in the little room . |
| 25 | Thank you , Father , for the fellowship that you want us to enjoy in the church . |
| 26 | Rather than treat the indenting of the first line of a paragraph as simply some cosmetic device , as Longacre ( 1979 ) does , we might look upon it as an indication by a writer of what he intends us to treat as the beginning of a new part of his text . |
| 27 | O God our Father , help us to nail to the Cross of |
| 28 | It is perhaps hard for us to realize after the years of the inter-war depression that for sixty years before 1914 the Durham pit men and the shipyard workers of Tyne and Wear were among the most highly paid workers outside the USA … . |
| 29 | It would help us to plan for the future if you would be so kind as to take a few minutes to fill in this questionnaire . |
| 30 | We could have catered for ourselves , but preferred the no-hassle option of half board which allowed us to indulge in the superb hot and cold buffet dinner provided with free wine . |