Example sentences of "[verb] we [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are hoping that our two new friends will assist us by acting as emissaries to the Court , ’ said Goibniu and , turning his head , smiled at Floy . |
| 2 | When he concluded by saying that : ‘ We at the ANC are convinced that cricket can assist us in achieving the new South Africa to which we all aspire , ’ he was warmly applauded by the tourists management and captain Kepler Wessels . |
| 3 | That would be a major breakthrough and would certainly assist us in formulating our policy as we move towards government . |
| 4 | The new money will assist us in continuing this successful growth policy ’ . |
| 5 | Before we examine these two interpretations of liberalism which prevail in modern contract theory , we must draw one further distinction because it will assist us in assessing the merits and implications of the two theories . |
| 6 | In the immediate context of The Possessed Kirillov delights even while he is dismaying us by pushing theory — the novel 's Paper Person motif , that is — to the very limit , the born gambler 's limit . |
| 7 | It also involved us in playing ‘ When the Saints ’ ( which we 'd resisted up to then ) for the two policemen who caught us parked on a double yellow line . |
| 8 | The tree was decorated with lights by and his team of engineers , and was such a spectacle it resulted in a letter in the local paper from Santa Claus himself , thanking us for putting it up . |
| 9 | The ( very guarded ! ) formulation ‘ unit ’ does not in any way preclude us from becoming a committee , a commission , a staff , a section , or anything else you may choose once it has been decided what form we are going to take . |
| 10 | ‘ The DoT has not given us definite promises and has discouraged us from expecting too much . |
| 11 | Labour can not , on the one hand , criticise us for giving our system careful consideration and waiting until 1 April 1993 and , on the other hand , announce that they will bring in a scheme in 1992 with no system to back it up . |
| 12 | The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile . |
| 13 | That is significant because that covers us for paying you commission . |
| 14 | We trained hard as well but the snow stopped us from doing too much off-road riding . |
| 15 | But the Dutch stopped us from doing that at later funerals . |
| 16 | It is part of an attempt to deter potential recruits and to distract us from concluding that it is men who are the cause of women 's oppression , not anyone else . |
| 17 | This was that if we did n't take part in the inquiry , then it would be easy for the pro-nuclear lobby to accuse us of ignoring democracy , throwing up the chance to have our say , implying that our case was too weak to risk exposure . |
| 18 | ‘ To accuse us of letting the dog die — that 's plain wicked ! ’ |
| 19 | If you have a policy for housing , or anything else for that matter , how about sharing it with the rest of us , right and until you come up with an alternative policy , do n't you start knocking us for having a policy which we are prepared to debate . |
| 20 | Well we 've asked him to meet us with regard to the footpaths , so we could use it for that at the same time , |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | She and the film show us in corruscating detail the real difficulties of the character 's position , and asks us not for approval but for understanding and perhaps the grace of mercy . |
| 23 | We fully support and endorse the deposit greenbelt boundaries , then I think it 's inescapable that at at some point that is going to lead us to leapfrogging over the greenbelt boundary , at some stage during the the the plan period , there may well be sufficient erm commitment and identified sites to mop up in in the short term , but by the end of of the plan period it 's it 's my belief that there will be a need to address this issue by bringing forward proposals for a new settlement , er which obviously Selby district er full fully supports . |
| 24 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 25 | Sir John , perhaps rightly , thought that this was not our brief , and that the complexities of this problem would prevent us from submitting our Report on time . |
| 26 | It does prevent us from daring to say that a subject becomes part of education because you teach it in a school , or at a CAT or in a university . |
| 27 | Will my right hon. Friend confirm that our friends and allies round the world who may be faced with potentially aggressive neighbours are entitled to look to us for support in arms sales , for example , of the Challenger tank which is made in Leeds , and that nothing proposed on restricting arms sales generally in the interests of world peace will prevent us from supporting our allies in circumstances where that is necessary ? |
| 28 | In that document , there is a very strong reference to the fact that that power should be either restrictive or removed and that there should be a right of appeal against it , which would effectively prevent us from using it . |
| 29 | The presence of may prevent us from drawing such a conclusion . |
| 30 | That , however , does not prevent us from drawing particular , limited conclusions from such ‘ isolation ’ experiments . |