Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Bush said , however , that he would use his executive discretion to modify or suspend US sanctions when two more of the five conditions were met ; administration officials said that they expected the freeing of political prisoners and the lifting of the state of emergency in Natal to be regarded as adequate moves . |
| 2 | They seem almost magical in themselves and once incorporated in a story they are guaranteed to weave a web to catch and hold us . |
| 3 | as if I 'd lit a fire in the darkness to try and warm us . |
| 4 | All they did was take photographs and , and send somebody round to try and stop us getting a home here ! |
| 5 | Why should he be lying asleep when I 'm working to try and save us ? |
| 6 | He said to Mariana , ‘ I need to try and get us a little further north . ’ |
| 7 | The screws kept coming to try and get us out , sweet-talking us all nice and that , but we would n't come out . |
| 8 | So if I may , I would like to negotiate to one or the other if if you will agree er to that , to try and get us a dance group , we 've been trying to get a dance group for years |
| 9 | Now this pen does n't spell double R R. Okay , I 've got to warn you , said the spelling , keep getting office systems to try and get us some decent colouring pens , but they do n't . |
| 10 | 15 army trucks arrived and the soldiers set up an ambush to try and kill us all . |
| 11 | And er we can get by on lots of things and when an emergency does come , sometimes we can cope with it if it 's not too big a one , but other times it can catch up with us , simply because we are only sort of half awake so the purpose of the talk today is to try and help us all to see various ways in which we can stay awake in the truth physic er , er spiritually speaking . |
| 12 | You 're going to try and help us then are you ? |
| 13 | Thickened his voice in the wrong places to try and convince us that he was under the influence . |
| 14 | ‘ I 'll ring up Uncle Bean , and ask him to come and fetch us , ’ Nutty decided , but the Nicholsons had no phone and the nearest call-box was past the cinema in the town-centre . |
| 15 | ‘ I would have thought that he , as local MP , would have managed to come and visit us , even though he is busy . ’ |
| 16 | It 's far more attractive than watching a tractor and we like to encourage people to come and visit us at Westonbirt . |
| 17 | And they used to come and give us the pattern , what the butler got to lay on the table ; the tea-service would be the same pattern as the tablecloth was . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , I wish to leave , and I want you to come and show us the place where those two corpses were found . ’ |
| 19 | A year , a month , and a day on from our first meeting , the 18–30 group is holding a welcome event for all those who would like to come and meet us and find out more about the group , and maybe throw your ideas into the pool . |
| 20 | Already stratagem has worked , in that 3 ladies ( not beautiful Brazilian brunettes ! ) have offered to come and cook us a meal next Wednesday — a Japanese meal which sounds like a mixture of harakiri and kamikazi , but I hope it will taste nice as the person cooking it is Japanese — there are lots of Japanese in this part of Brazil . |
| 21 | ‘ You are welcome to come and inspect us any time you like , ’ he was saying . |
| 22 | I 'm gon na have to get Tony to come and pick us up . |
| 23 | I still think you 'd do better to come and join us . |
| 24 | Thank you all very much indeed and thank you particularly for making an effort to come and join us at the A G M , apart from the fact that it would be tedious in the extreme to look at an empty room , I do understand |
| 25 | Well I 'm delighted to see so many of you have taken the trouble to come and join us today for yet another annual public meeting and in welcoming you can I give a particular welcome to our new chairman Mike Betts , thank him very much indeed for joining us . |
| 26 | Hello do you want to come and join us ? |
| 27 | We 'll just looking at the big book together do you want to come and join us ? |
| 28 | We need some of the younger , newly retired to come and join us in the fight to restore the dignity and security that should be there for everyone in the autumn of their lives . |
| 29 | Yeah and my sister in law used to come M my brother 's wife used to come and help us with the cleaning at night . |
| 30 | Now what I 'd like to do today is to erm take you round the house in a moment or two , see what you think of it and really to treat this as something whereby you see if you want to come and help us . |