Example sentences of "[vb base] us [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | The Smiths seduce us into aspiring to the same heroic pitch of failure and exile . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Please support us by providing bric-a-brac , clothes , unwanted but saleable articles , etc . |
| 7 | It is our values and not our limited means which prevent us from recognizing that our society possesses adequate resources for the task in hand . |
| 8 | The course content includes : exploring fantasy , sexual response , body image , and a look at some of the underlying feelings which prevent us from reaching our sexual potential . |
| 9 | I consider that I B M strives to be a good employer and that it 's long established belief in respect for the individual has shaped our personal policies to reflect these needs within our community , and for example , our equal opportunity principles prevent us from considering race , colour or sex , when offering someone employment or promotion . |
| 10 | It does n't , but we were n't going to let our opposition to the territorial claim prevent us from talking . ’ |
| 11 | it is difficult to measure precisely the influence of factors by isolating them in experiments and , even if we could , there may be ethical problems which prevent us from doing so |
| 12 | What in our political and cultural traditions prevent us from having a ‘ pro-people ’ health service — and society for that matter ? |
| 13 | At any rate such verses prevent us from supposing that only with modernism could fruitful contact with Virgil be resumed , or that late-Victorian Virgilianism was the perquisite of Alfred Lord Tennyson . |
| 14 | We surfed in as Terrie fought to keep control of the tiller and stop us from broaching . |
| 15 | Referring expressions fulfil a dual purpose of unifying the text ( they depend upon some of the subject matter remaining the same ) and of economy , because they save us from having to repeat the identity of what we are talking about again and again . |
| 16 | Gransden and Eykyn chide us for mentioning kanamycin , which has been superseded in Britain by newer drugs . |
| 17 | tell us about breathing , no you 're not getting my voice on that thing he says , I , I do n't like hearing me voice and everything , and he threw it on the settee . |
| 18 | providing tension to the girders ( bones ) and cables ( tendons ) that keep us from crumpling to the ground at any instant . |
| 19 | Two young , fit squaddies desperately need the help of any females from 16 to 55 to save us from this dull and boring existence- Please , please keep us from talking to the penguins any longer — write now ! |
| 20 | Every year when the mares come to stud , there are always a few who we initially think are quite sensible and intelligent but who then surprise us by behaving as if they are totally brainless ! |
| 21 | They have a dimension of being beyond the reach of rational formulation , and they often disconcert us by behaving quite differently in one novel , in one volume , from what the previous volume had led us to expect . |
| 22 | Er , the other motion is of course pointing to so many of the changes that are taking place in our industrial society which prompt us into building a new union . |
| 23 | We have read the various articles which have appeared in the Press over the last few days which accuse us of cheating in the recent Test series against England . |
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| 26 | It 's going help us by knowing our targets … staff will work hard to meet them . |
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| 30 | We cling to the symbols which give our life meaning and help us in answering this question . |