Example sentences of "[noun pl] [to-vb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | Presumably there are adaptive strategies to enable us to endure the unendurable . |
| 2 | ‘ As patriots , we think we have some Cambodians to support us , ’ said Khmer Rouge leader Khieu Samphan in an interview in Paris in August . |
| 3 | No arkies to vex us either . |
| 4 | EC commissioner Frans Andriessen , the EC 's chief negotiator , has said he has no immediate plans to meet US negotiators but developments could come today after a meeting of EC foreign ministers in Brussels . |
| 5 | We may not be lovers any more , but we 're still very good friends despite a few attempts to pull us apart . |
| 6 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 7 | Part of the process of gaining control over our lives involves us in resisting their attempts to box us in the pigeonhole of ‘ client ’ — and to expose their self-styled , self-seeking efforts to elevate their second-hand knowledge about disability into a ‘ profession ’ . |
| 8 | He was about to continue when officials of the embassy came down the steps to greet us . |
| 9 | They had about them enough cameras and guide books to assure us that they were tourists , and the lady 's sunglasses could only have been , in Anna 's words , " products of the New World " . |
| 10 | It is important to us to maintain and seek to improve those ratings to enable us to minimise the cost of our borrowings . |
| 11 | WE asked five city fashion shops to provide us with clothes which they considered epitomised Merseyside style : |
| 12 | For your part , we very mich hope that piloting centres will use all available channels to provide us with feedback — whether this is at a seminar or centre visit , via the piloting questionnaire , or through informal contacts with the piloting team at SCOTVEC . |
| 13 | In fact , though , McGurk and MacDonald ( 1976 ) have shown the extent to which we use information about the position of a speaker 's lips to help us recognise spoken words . |
| 14 | Graptolites , trilobites , and dinosaurs are all extinct , and so in the examples we have considered so far there is no direct recourse to the study of living animals to help us bring our fossils back to life . |
| 15 | We have no machinery , no animals to help us , not even a donkey : we need all the land there is for ourselves . |
| 16 | ‘ We would also like to appeal for funds to help us finance this event . |
| 17 | Next day Mary took Frankie , Liza and me to the shops to buy us some new clothes for the wedding . |
| 18 | Causes exist in the real world ; they are not just human constructions to help us understand it . |
| 19 | This year we are asking a selected sample of readers to help us with this process . |
| 20 | Gerard Kierans , UK Artistic Director of the Graham Webb group of salons , says : ‘ Coloured hair can change in the sun so we always ask clients to let us know when they 're going away . |
| 21 | ‘ Whether the birthing chamber is a hospital operating room or our own bedroom , most of us enter without any previous experience or images to guide us . |
| 22 | BUT we deserved to win on Wednesday , and by enough goals to put us through . |
| 23 | And delivered as an integral part of the application are two utilities to give us as much flexibility in achieving that goal as possible . |
| 24 | We need words to keep us human . |
| 25 | He could n't even leave the stables to accompany us here over Christmas . |
| 26 | A man threatens your life and our happiness , so I am suggesting that you take steps to protect us . ’ |
| 27 | ‘ But I think this time it 's different in that teams will have to score two goals to beat us because we 're always going to get one . |
| 28 | We are likely to repeat previous styles to get us through the pain , but a point can be reached where the old ways no longer work . |
| 29 | She nearly begged us to g , nearly went down on her knees to get us to go did n't she ? |
| 30 | So it is good to have these idiomatic recordings to remind us of just how good a pianist he was : in both the Concerto and the Rhapsody , rock-solid technique serves real musicality , and this CD would be worth acquiring on the strength of the Gershwin works alone . |