Example sentences of "[v-ing] us for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her last entry reads : ‘ Letter from girl thanking us for concert tickets . |
| 2 | She 's meeting us for lunch , by the way . ’ |
| 3 | ‘ I have always gotten the sense that museums , which are very active in lobbying us for money , take the essential position : ‘ Give us the money and leave us alone ’ ’ , Brodsky announced at a hearing last week . |
| 4 | ‘ Grandfather is expecting us for tea in the summer-house . ’ |
| 5 | Will you be joining us for lunch ? |
| 6 | ‘ Something tells me you wo n't be joining us for dinner tonight . ’ |
| 7 | In a few days they 'll be back here begging us for food . ’ |
| 8 | The press blamed us for Labour 's defeat , the Tories blamed us for Labour 's defeat and now it looks as thought the Labour Party is blaming us for Labour 's defeat . |
| 9 | This is just asking us for permission for them to apply for planning permission . |
| 10 | ‘ He was inviting us for Sunday lunch tomorrow . |
| 11 | I 've been taping us for ages though , we 've been talking about comple , I mean I 've got conversations about Thelma and Louise on here about fifteen million times and Drop Dead Fred 's original I ai n't done him yet . |
| 12 | ‘ Although the name is new , many of the ideas forming general SVQs have been exercising us for years . |
| 13 | It is interesting , is n't it , that er I knew the road to Damascus was long , but I did n't realise it were that long cos on the second of July the Tories moved an amendment at P and R criticising us for spending money on the Lord Mayor 's car , but I 'm glad to see that you 've come back to the fold . |
| 14 | There are some things in this that obviously we can support , the delete or reduction in the contingency pros p provision to a hundred thousand pounds , we 're going to be moving later on to delete even that amount but it 's surprising you were telling us you 've been telling us for years you have to have two hundred thousand pounds in the contingency . |
| 15 | But er interestingly , the Americans have just put er more tax on to their gas for , for different reasons admittedly , and er the environmentalists er always feel happy about that because they 've been the ones who 've been telling us for years that er petrol is if anything underpriced , and that we 're rather profligate in the way that we use it , so er at least some people are happy out of this , not everybody , but it , but er it 's making some people happier . |
| 16 | ROSS STRUDWICK had been telling us for weeks : the London Crusaders can become big-time . |
| 17 | What is even worse is that desktop publishing delivers to the mass market at a ridiculously low price the technology that traditional electronic publishing system suppliers have been promising us for years — the ability to mix text and graphics freely on a page . |
| 18 | ‘ Of course , we have to make sure they are not just using us for cannon fodder , ’ she says . |
| 19 | There are no conditions specifically attached under the IDO but of course we have obligations — the county minerals officer will be pursuing us for restoration quite rightly — what we 'd like to do is go beyond the basic restoration and make it much better . |