Example sentences of "[verb] [to-vb] [conj] [vb infin] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Father always kept in touch with Peter and he planned to come and see us when he got leave from France , where he was stationed . |
| 2 | Hello do you want to come and join us ? |
| 3 | We 'll just looking at the big book together do you want to come and join us ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ Ideally , I like to allow enough time so I do n't need to rush and make us both tense . |
| 6 | You 're going to try and help us then are you ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | So , if any of you would like to come and see us at the salon we will both be there and very happy to see and answer any of your questions . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | ‘ Are n't you going to stay and watch us win the prize ? ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Polite advisory letters , relatively minuscule fines , and short prison sentences leave corporations licenced to continue and leave us , as Dylan advised , with heads buried deep in our rags . |
| 13 | The screws kept coming to try and get us out , sweet-talking us all nice and that , but we would n't come out . |
| 14 | Lakes and mountains , beaches and islands , friendly hotels and Renaissance grandeur , there is honestly so much that you will simply have to come and see us year after year . |
| 15 | You 'll have to come and see us again some time . |
| 16 | Oh do you have to sing and give us all a headache |
| 17 | Most of us must reluctantly concede and admiration for the way the Japanese do things , but even they make some remarkable cock-ups , which can serve to cheer and instruct us when we consider our own inadequacies . |
| 18 | Writing on ‘ The Fall of the Roman Empire and Its Lessons for Us ’ one author had already struck the easy notes of comparison in 1898 — the decline of the arts of soldiery and manliness , the financial oppression of the middle classes , subsidised food prices , bread and circuses ( that is , football ) and the recruitment of the barbarian ‘ lower races ’ into the imperial armies were all listed as forces ‘ which may tend to enervate and degrade us , to destroy our love of truth , to poison the fountains of family life ’ . |
| 19 | Pornography serves to divide and contain us . |
| 20 | Cosmas and Damien 's murders are meant to torture and punish us as well as unnerve and divert us from our true mission . |
| 21 | The Society 's slot at the Barbican Festival is at 2.15 p.m. on Sunday 28 May Do come — Dressed to work and support us in the ‘ Come and try it ’ session and cheer the NDT on . |
| 22 | ‘ They are trying to humiliate and belittle us . |
| 23 | Well you look as if you 're raring to go and show us what you can do , so I 'll give you a push up and away you go . |
| 24 | ‘ I would have thought that he , as local MP , would have managed to come and visit us , even though he is busy . ’ |
| 25 | He said to Mariana , ‘ I need to try and get us a little further north . ’ |
| 26 | Why should he be lying asleep when I 'm working to try and save us ? |
| 27 | ‘ With that I have to feed and clothe us , pay rent and bills , and save up for extras , like presents . |
| 28 | Most importantly , we need to avoid situations where the horse is likely to express its aggression towards us , at least until the horse has learnt to respect and like us to some extent . |
| 29 | Nor did I meet you here to be angry with you , I hope I have not so offended you that you refuse to officiate and give us your instructions here tomorrow |