Example sentences of "us [verb] [coord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Wilkins Micawber of 11 Downing street tells us to wait and see . |
| 2 | She asked us to wait and indicated a nest of Bauhaus leather armchairs . |
| 3 | It endorsed British industry 's achievements under the policies that we have been pursuing for the past 12 years , urged us to continue and build upon them in future and condemned utterly the sort of policies still advocated by the Labour party , which is stuck in a mind-set of the 1960s and 1970s . |
| 4 | The most valuable of the representations that I have had on manufacturing industry is the excellent report from the manufacturing advisory group of the CBI , which hails the resurgence in manufacturing that began in the 1980s and calls on us to continue and to build on the policies that brought that about . |
| 5 | Had they played the ball down th channels or to the corner flags , this would have turned their defence and let us regroup and play in their half . |
| 6 | There was no furniture , just sacking for us to sit and sleep on . |
| 7 | ‘ I see no reason for us to sit and watch , ’ Charlotte said , rising from her seat . |
| 8 | This project will help us to confirm or reject this hypothesis . |
| 9 | We left as darkness was descending on that foreboding place and nothing could have made us stay or convinced us that there was not something awful waiting in the station . |
| 10 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 11 | The ‘ sheriff ’ came out and said that Customs wanted us to fly to Darwin for clearance , but we begged for mercy and he let us stay and gave us a ride to a lodge in the police wagon . |
| 12 | Excitement mounted ; in her memoirs Princess Marie Louise quotes Sir Edwin Lutyens as saying , ‘ Let us devise and design for all time something which will enable future generations to see how a king and queen of England lived in the twentieth century , and what authors , artists and craftsmen of note there were during their reign . ’ |
| 13 | At this point , in 1986 , the mother church commissioned us to go and start the new church . |
| 14 | Children described to the interviewers how they had been referred to the library to find information on Inuits and Eskimos in basic studies , Scott of the Antarctic in history , and Alexander Fleming in science , while one child described how : In RE sometimes Miss asks us to go and find out ( like ) some information and also in literacy ( like ) there are some people who write letters backwards and Miss asks us to go back and see if we could find any . |
| 15 | Er it just gives us a focal point for us to go and see . |
| 16 | I tried to look sympathetic but that only made matters worse and the fellow waved his fingers in the air as a sign for us to go and , turning his back , resumed his prayers . |
| 17 | Just as we were about to paddle along the once road we heard a shout from Matthew 's mum for us to go and collect her . |
| 18 | Erm , and it is just as possible , in theory , for us to go and live somewhere else . |
| 19 | The company which owns the cinema never puts any pressure on us to go and see anything . |
| 20 | Who was it they had on who a aging singer , what 's his name just before Christmas in the Mail who wanted us to go and see them and |
| 21 | Thursday 's better for us to go and then nanny took it apart . |
| 22 | And she 's asked us to go and stay and I said to John I Would n't stay in that bed again |
| 23 | Chris Ivan said to me , he said Cliff wanted us to go and have a drink he said when we 've finished work on a Friday he said last night , I tell you , I said I said no , no I did n't ! |
| 24 | Tosh arranged for us to go and see his . |
| 25 | Yoga : yoga therapy is designed to rectify that imbalance in our inner selves from which most of us suffer and which causes tension in the body and the mind . |
| 26 | Or they may appeal to our feelings — advertisements that evoke nostalgia , or involve appealing children and animals ; that make us laugh or rely on sex appeal , are all playing on our emotions to persuade us to buy . |
| 27 | Four ‘ paired ’ studies will be conducted , allowing us to compare and contrast the use of similar technologies in different settings . |
| 28 | In every day life we group things into sets without really thinking about it , to find some kind of order , or pattern which will help us to arrange and organise what we have to do . |
| 29 | ‘ Do you seriously expect us to forgive and forget the inhumanity and the misery of the poll tax ? ’ |
| 30 | ‘ Do you seriously expect us to forgive and forget the inhumanity of the poll tax ? ’ demanded one of the 500 , offering Major the chance to say ‘ Sorry ’ . |