Example sentences of "[vb infin] we [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He could evangelise us disguised as a doctor who wants us to rest our bodies , an environmentalist who wants us to slow down , or as a psychiatrist telling us we will be less neurotic if we put our feet up and listen to the bird song for one day a week . |
| 2 | I told Bernard to infiltrate the team so that he can keep us posted on their movements . |
| 3 | Most of us , at least occasionally , go home , switch on the TV , switch off our minds , stretch out in a comfortable chair and let the box keep us entertained for the evening . |
| 4 | Councillor Fraser will keep us informed regarding developments . |
| 5 | Councillor Fraser will keep us informed regarding developments . |
| 6 | W would have we got for this one , say ? |
| 7 | When costs are so profitable why would they need full-time employees , they can just have us stood at the door any d any g at the gate any week they want , begging for a day 's work . |
| 8 | She said if I could get us chucked outside the cinema , chucked out the cinema cos Billy said he 'd get us chucked out the cinema for , she goes and we can all pretend we do n't them . |
| 9 | Diluting our principles will not get us elected to power . |
| 10 | We are running up Trundleys Road across the Surrey Canal when I suggest that this running could get us nicked by the police . |
| 11 | This is the challenge that awaits us and that should find us united in our ministry of communication . |
| 12 | This is the challenge that awaits us and that should find us united in our ministry of communication . |
| 13 | All through my teens it had to be a very rainy Sunday indeed that did not find us perched on the Cow and Calf a crop of murderous rocks resembling neither cows , calves nor any other animal , ' or out at Bolton Abbey , negotiating the stepping-stones across the wide but shallow Wharfe ; or eating our sandwiches on Haworth Moor as we looked down on the Brontes ' parsonage and re-enacted the highlights from Wuthering Heights in our romantic young heads . |