Example sentences of "for us [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the best way for us to deal with it was as a family because it 's less frightening that way . |
| 2 | Much easier for us to deal with a conniving , self-serving bastard like Assad than try to cope with a religious fanatic . |
| 3 | No new cases would come on stream for us to deal with . |
| 4 | So what I 'd like to do is erm , balance out the influence in him , prior to going out and making these negotiations erm , so that he comes back with a a suitable timescale for us to deal with it , and has n't promised them the earth in the way of commission or er , print changes or whatever . |
| 5 | There 's a recommendation from the budget review sub-committee for us to deal with , at er , minute seven , little at the bottom of page two . |
| 6 | The impact of the section has been very broadly based in the city , and for the first time we 've added for you in very brief terms , a Domiciliary Health information of just the total number of visits made by the city health care , erm and the level of work in terms of notices served , and prosecutions , note , going up in most of the sections , particularly their units they 're small numbers , but they are significant , just the same , and the table on the top of page forty-four , erm as I said earlier , I think we reached the highest level of insect complaints in the summer that we 've ever had to deal with , it 's very usual for us to deal with a thousand , over in the summer period , this time we dealt with sixteen hundred . |
| 7 | In the future , it might be possible for us to reset our body clock to the new time zone quickly , by taking a pill containing melatonin at the appropriate time of day . |
| 8 | We got a penny for each brick , and it was a wonderful thing for us to earn some money during the school holidays . |
| 9 | What 's in store for us then is not for us to ordain . |
| 10 | " I do n't believe that this is the time for us to profit from each other 's misery so I hereby cancel all sales of food which have taken place this afternoon . |
| 11 | It is perhaps hard for us to realize after the years of the inter-war depression that for sixty years before 1914 the Durham pit men and the shipyard workers of Tyne and Wear were among the most highly paid workers outside the USA … . |
| 12 | It was n't meant to be a cycling holiday and we did n't take any bikes with us , but Peter and Judy had a bike apiece for us to borrow . |
| 13 | It 'll involve us developing visiting schemes , under eight services , helping families in different ways , improving services for disabled children , developing family centres , and a new specific — this 'll might amuse you this — a new specific responsibility for us to inspect and register the care practices of private schools in the County , and Oxfordshire has got the biggest number of those in the whole country . |
| 14 | This makes it easier for us to digest the wheat . |
| 15 | It is ungracious for us to grumble about a creaking chair or a rattling shutter , as happened recently . |
| 16 | Possibly a little touch like this has more meaning for us belonging as we do to a mechanical age , than it would have had for our ancestors , who were unaccustomed to the click of an electric switch and its attendant results ! |
| 17 | Now that 's just a notional one for us to target internally make sure all our costs come within a certain Excuse me . |
| 18 | It was not simply that this or that particular topic might need revision or reassessment , but , they said , ‘ It is vital for us to turn our back on academic eclecticism … , and on the tendency to turn the study of literature and language from a systematic science back once more into a miscellany of episodic and anecdotal essays ’ ( 1977 : 49 ) . |
| 19 | If it was wrong for us to acknowledge our love while Dennis was alive , it would be even more wrong to deny it now . |
| 20 | It is difficult for us to acknowledge that violence and destruction , on both sides , are expressions of ‘ rational ’ behaviour ; that ‘ reason ’ may be at the heart of violence . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's time for us to close now , love . ’ |
| 22 | They looked furious when they saw our faces peering in and made frantic signs for us to close the curtains again . |
| 23 | ‘ It is important for us to pick up something on our visits to Bristol and Tranmere . ’ |
| 24 | for us to pick them up here I mean . |
| 25 | ‘ How sad it would be for us to lose you to the sea , Señor Capitano . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ It does n't seem fair for us to lose all the time because of Sarah , Tawny . ’ |
| 27 | Now Richard was leaving Oxford , it might be hard , at first , for us to manage on his salary . |
| 28 | Would not the best way to ensure that such a treaty would be accepted worldwide be for us to allow international inspection and verification of the numbers of our warheads ? |
| 29 | ‘ They 're far too precious to our heritage for us to allow them to simply moulder away … |
| 30 | Other people have to do something pretty dramatic for us to notice . |