Example sentences of "[coord] [vb base] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | She only came to fetch wood for Mum or bring us our cocoa . |
| 2 | Then , in a postscript , as if feeling that his measured words had not yet said enough , he added with a sudden note of desperation : ‘ May God preserve us & make us continue to be joy & comfort & wisdom & virtue to each other , my dear , dear , Poole ! ’ |
| 3 | But Walcott does n't give his characters enough to do , or make us warm to Sonny so that we care whether he stays a tourist toy . |
| 4 | We must ensure that any new action does not jeopardise what we have done or make us lose more than we have gained . ’ |
| 5 | We want to help , as long as it does n't take too much time or effort , or make us too obsessive and puritanical . |
| 6 | Having failed to break us politically or silence us through censorship , the role of the death squads is to kill us . ’ |
| 7 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 8 | If you are interested in our products but are unable to visit us please phone or fax us for our mail order lists . |
| 9 | Do let me know if you want us to get a taxi from King 's X — or send us keys so we do n't wake you up ? ! ( 12.23 yawn … ) |
| 10 | Pity and fear slow us down , or send us away . |
| 11 | Now suffering , in the proper sense , is caused precisely by external factors affecting us , physical conditions or the actions of other human beings which afflict or constrain us . |
| 12 | As with people we meet during the day , some authors are accepted as close friends while others alienate or repel us . |
| 13 | Like Matthew , we will keep creating realities which coax or provoke us into feeling anger — by being hurt , by suffering from injustice , by seeing a world full of hatred and cruelty . |
| 14 | Set up , or let us both set up , a credit for me . ’ |
| 15 | They 're probably going to buy up all our land and evacuate us to the south , or let us stay and employ us all as beaters . ’ |
| 16 | Or let us not forget that research on Japan in the 1930s has revealed conflicts of interest between and within the military , zaibatsu , politicians and the bureaucracy . |
| 17 | The equanimity of your average tosser of coins depends upon the law , or rather a tendency , or let us say a probability , or at any rate a mathematically calculable chance , which ensures that he will not upset himself by losing too much nor upset his opponent by winning too often . |
| 18 | ‘ Leave me now , or let us fight until one of us is dead . |
| 19 | Doubtless there is a batteur in the wings or for the chorus , the orchestra only needing a maître de musique , or let us say a conducteur ; a batteur de mesure being not the ‘ most essential artist at the Opera ’ but the most intolerable … |
| 20 | But on terms he knows the boy wo n't accept himself or let us accept for him . |
| 21 | It might destroy part of the ozone layer , which would permit the sun 's ultra-violet radiation either to tan us or fry us , depending upon how large a hole had been blasted in the stratosphere : it might equally well cause the onset of a nuclear winter , which is so popular a topic among both scientists and laymen these days . |
| 22 | The unimpressiveness of some of Gandhi 's arguments in favour of ahi sā , however , should not be allowed to detract from the strength of other arguments , or cause us to lose sight of his basic position . |
| 23 | But just let's have a look at some of the things that have caused fires or cause us to bring about legislation in fire . |
| 24 | And I hope you have n't gone to any trouble cooking for me because I can barely keep owt down these days , not after t'hospital , me appetite quite sickened away on me wi' the things they serve up — greasy bits o' beef skirt and nasty little salads wi' half a two-week old egg and a few outside leaves o' lettuce and a bit o' wet beetroot , no , it was an effort getting it down , let alone keeping it down — I can tell you , there was many as could n't , eggs from t'infernal regions we got for us breakfast as often as not , right stink bombs , but could you get any o' them nurses to have a sniff or give us another i'stead ? |
| 25 | Sometimes our neighbours want the things we have , or have the things we want , so we both fight until they take ours or give us theirs . |
| 26 | When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit . |
| 27 | When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit . |
| 28 | When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit . |
| 29 | When the guarantee is released , or you get the deposit back , you must help us to cancel the guarantee or give us the deposit . |
| 30 | Or give us here a bloody mint |