Example sentences of "[vb base] us [verb] [noun] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You want us to lie east of the forest with the fire in our faces and cut off Siward if he tries to make his escape . |
| 2 | Let us give thanks for the many people throughout history who have dedicated their lives to working for peace and justice . |
| 3 | Let us give thanks for the progress made in scientific research , for the luxuries and comforts it has given us , for the assistance in curing disease , with storing information and with improving communications . |
| 4 | Let us give thanks for the beauty of the world . |
| 5 | Let us give thanks for the example of love and compassion shown to us by the life of Jesus Christ . |
| 6 | Let us give thanks for the example given to us by Jesus Christ . |
| 7 | Let us give thanks for the gift of laughter . |
| 8 | If the London Bureau can only provide circumstantial evidence , let us head north of the border to Edinburgh University and the chair of Britain 's first Professor of Parapsychology . |
| 9 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , pretending to address the whole class , ‘ let us leave sums for the moment and see if any of you have begun to learn to spell . |
| 10 | Let us rest content for the moment with this definition of public law , and ask why a distinction is drawn between public and private law . |
| 11 | I must tell the Leader of the House that , if the election is to be on 9 April — everyone is planning for it , buying space to advertise and organising ; one hears it from sources in the advertising business who know what the Opposition and the Government are doing — then , for the good of the House , for heaven 's sake announce the date and let us do business in a sensible fashion during the next six weeks , instead of proceeding in this way and covering up the reality . |
| 12 | Let us consider watercress as a typical example of how easy it is to be deceived . |
| 13 | ‘ Before we eat , let us thank God for the food in front of us , ’ said Mr Wopsle , in the deep voice he used in church . |
| 14 | " Let us have tea on the lawn again ! " shouted the Collector from the window , but no one paid any attention to him . |
| 15 | Let us imagine boxing without the masculinity . |
| 16 | We might propose , for example , that the participant roles in our case might be marked by different suffixes : let us say o for the agent role , om for the patient . |
| 17 | Let us take vision as an example . |
| 18 | Let us take gambling as an example . |
| 19 | Let us take finance as an example . |
| 20 | Let us take stock of the argument so far . |
| 21 | At this point let us take stock of the limitations we have put on our research . |
| 22 | Let us take crickets as an example . |
| 23 | What can stop us — stop us establishing control from the Pacific coast to the Urals — especially with the help of Angel ? ’ |
| 24 | Some people tell us to keep Moby on a tight lead and only walk him in one or two places ; others tell us not to let him off the lead as his bones are n't yet strong enough to take the strain ; some tell us to relax and hope he grows out of it . |
| 25 | So the idea of higher education as a fulcrum for critiquing society can be resurrected — must be resurrected — and still allow us to do justice to the internal integrity of students ' programmes of study . |
| 26 | Second , there are surface connections which establish interrelationships between persons and events ; these allow us to trace participants in a text and to interpret the way in which different parts of the text relate to each other ( cohesion ) . |
| 27 | [ These would ] enable us to do things for the alliance which they ca n't do . |
| 28 | Formally , ordinal scales are asymmetrical in that if A is greater than B , B can not be greater than A. Transitivity still holds in that if A is greater than B , and B is greater than C , then A is greater than C. It is these properties which enable us to order cases along a continuum . |
| 29 | Psychologists believe that we hold on to certain stories because they enable us to make sense of an otherwise confusing world — that we learn through stories and see our way through to maturity with their help . |
| 30 | These enable us to make statements about the relative influence of parents and peers and the effect of social and linguistic maturation . |