Example sentences of "[vb infin] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ They 'll signal us to turn aside , ’ Morton observed . |
| 2 | He 'd just rob us and tie us up and leave us for the wolves , I expect . ’ |
| 3 | Early efforts to become involved in multi-agency approaches to crime and associated topics were painful experiences … we wanted to maintain the lead in every forum , to be the gatekeepers of power and have the right of veto if decisons were made which did not suit us . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ Forest play football the way it should be played and that will suit us . |
| 5 | This time it would suit us fine to stay behind the pace — and jump to the front as late as possible . ’ |
| 6 | Either will suit us fine . |
| 7 | We do n't want to go on forever making lovely things that do n't suit us ( notice this is a useful expression for ‘ too small ’ ) simply because some knitting pattern has told us how many rows and stitches to work . |
| 8 | So er I do n't think we should attempt to shift the coffee rooms into you know a nice health food , vegetarian , upmarket restaurant which might suit us because it , it thereby would n't fulfil its function which , from our point of view , is to provide a service and |
| 9 | That does n't suit us at all . |
| 10 | It would suit us better than one of our own mobile sardine cans . ’ |
| 11 | That does n't suit us at all . |
| 12 | In the meantime we have to find what will suit us best . ’ |
| 13 | Said the record goalscorer : ‘ It is a similar situation because we have to score goals but against Auxerre we had to win 3-0 , whereas this time 2-0 or 3-1 will suit us . |
| 14 | It 's alright for her but it does n't suit us . |
| 15 | that it 's er better over there , that 'll suit us |
| 16 | So many of us keep so many medicines on our shelves for donkeys years in the hope that we might find a pill that will suit us at some time . |
| 17 | ‘ He 'll attack us Russians . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ We never expected that they would attack us from behind — from Ethiopia , ’ said Dr Justin Arop , SPLA representative in Nairobi . |
| 19 | The city was in chaos and we were afraid that armed men would attack us . |
| 20 | We long for nights when their aircraft can not attack us , and at the moment we are rejoicing in a fog which is sheltering us , I wish the politicians would see sense and stop the war . |
| 21 | Right up until the four men left the cellar it was touch and go whether they would attack us . |
| 22 | Why do they attack us ? ’ |
| 23 | And the more critical we became , the more we realized that the government might attack us . |
| 24 | The King of Blefuscu has always wanted to defeat Lilliput in war , and now we hear that he 's prepared a large number of ships , which will attack us very soon . |
| 25 | Who would dare attack us here ? |
| 26 | ‘ If we had him with us , who 'd attack us ? ’ said Twoflower . |
| 27 | You do n't believe for a minute that this government will stand by while the two biggest general unions get together , no way , they 'll attack us in any way they can and I warn ya they have n't run out of ideas yet . |
| 28 | The fact is that Labour wants to keep the poll tax so that it can attack us with it . |
| 29 | It struck me as extraordinary that the hon. Member for Dagenham ( Mr. Gould ) should attack us on that point . |
| 30 | Even in the year we won the league , there were worrying signs that the defence could be very fragile when teams made the effort to really attack us — hence the 4 goals conceded against man city and QPR — which was a sign of things to come the season after . |