Example sentences of "[vb -s] we [prep] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | That is significant because that covers us for paying you commission . |
| 2 | ‘ An ’ then he prosecutes us for cuttin' animals up in a public place , ’ Jake went on . |
| 3 | For those of us who fret about ways in which modern technology distances us from understanding this programme was a revelation . |
| 4 | This allows us to built mixed consultancy teams to fit the need and , in many cases , we can provide experimental validation of the software . |
| 5 | Somewhere above his head , a deep voice intoned the ritual words : ‘ For the Judas who turns against his Brothers — the man who betrays us by revealing the innermost secrets of our Guild — the punishment shall be as follows … . |
| 6 | This finding warns us against concluding that women get into heroin and sustain regular use solely because of male associations and partnerships . |
| 7 | The cross does not affect God because he has always been loving and desiring our repentance ; it affects us by presenting us with an example of love and sacrifice which overwhelms us because of its outrageous generosity . |
| 8 | As you well know our mission statement , Save The Children 's vision , commits us to using our experience gained here and overseas to achieve lasting benefits for children on a far wider scale than would be the case if we just confined our work to those children and families who happen to be involved in the projects we run . |
| 9 | Stage 6 takes us to sealing in the dowels with stitches across the pockets , and the securing straps are added 9 1/2 in or 24cm down from the front end of the leading edge pocket . |
| 10 | Rather than attempting to define the nature of the " humane education " thus envisaged , Leavis merely asserts that " It seems better simply to point to English literature , which is unquestionably and producibly " there " , and to suggest that the " literary tradition " that this unquestionable existence justifies us in speaking of might … be called a vague concept . " |
| 11 | They involve separating the rule from its instances and asking what justifies us in taking the instances to be instances of that rule . |
| 12 | What justifies us in attributing heat and cold to material things is our perceiving them to be hot and cold ; and they could still feel hot and cold to us even if we never felt hot or cold ourselves . |
| 13 | Commerce , Voltaire declared , was the base on which the greatness of our nation was built ; now it 's all that keeps us from going bankrupt . |
| 14 | But our deepest fears should be reserved for everything that keeps us from becoming more human , more personal , or more spiritual . |
| 15 | But although Lobkowicz ( 1967 ) cautions us against assuming that Aristotle 's distinction between theory and practice is similar to today 's usage , and suggests that it was as much a matter of the context as the content of knowledge — types of life as well as types of thought — the dichotomy is still very much with us . |
| 16 | So that 's what privatization is about and how do we stop the privatization how do we really represent the members by attacking the legislation that prevents us from acting in a spontaneous manner , which will assist our members in their hour of need . |
| 17 | There is , in other words , a double overlap in the ministry of Jesus , which prevents us from assuming that Father , Son and Spirit are three moulds into which the Deity pours himself at different periods in the history of salvation . |
| 18 | I am sure that one of the things that prevents us from accepting help is that we think other people wo n't do things the way we do them . |
| 19 | Pride holds onto the past and so prevents us from moving forward and achieving more with our lives . |
| 20 | Er the very fact that we 're at our desks er for more than seventy percent of our time filling these forms in er prevents us from moving on to the next prisoner and going out and arresting more people for crime . |
| 21 | In this book space prevents us from paying more than cursory attention to the whole area of upper-world crime . |
| 22 | Only our deplorable ignorance of Carthaginian and Parthian jokes prevents us from assessing the local reactions to " pergraecari " , a word which Festus explains as " epulis et potationibus inservire " ( p. 235 L. ) . |
| 23 | It is easy to stop squabbles and arguments in the interests of peace and harmony , yet to do so often prevents us from observing significant behaviour which can give the counsellor invaluable insight into how older people think and feel about themselves , other people and their situation . |
| 24 | I realised then how our own personal embarrassment and refusal to face up to our own mortality prevents us from behaving to others in a natural and human way . |
| 25 | This prevents us from supposing that the conditional in question , to speak in the ontologically extravagant way , comes to this : in the possible world where it is raining , but everything else is the same as in this world save that the balcony is wet , the balcony is indeed wet . |
| 26 | This forces upon us a breadth of interest and concern which readily prevents us from becoming too absorbed in the affairs of our own small island . |
| 27 | Maybe that 's why our law prevents us from adopting methods more than are sufficient for our needs . ’ |
| 28 | The dualism is deemed disastrous because it prevents us from having a unified conception of the world built around the natural sciences , and because it leaves the relationship between the mental and the physical an insoluble mystery . |
| 29 | Only section 7(2) prevents us from treating it as two separate offences . |
| 30 | Hugh chides us for selling at what he regards as low prices , but he forgets that our hobby not our source of income ; it is a way of relaxing during evenings and weekends when the serious business of earning a living is over . |