Example sentences of "[to-vb] us into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite fourteen years of trying to smash us into submission , they 'll fail to break the spirit of the working people of Britain . |
| 2 | May we allow Him to lead us into the unknown , may we draw our courage from Him and may we place our trust in His loving kindness . |
| 3 | Perhaps disappointingly , after all this thought to protection from viruses , we have not been seriously attacked : the worst that happened was an attempt to lead us into an adventure game . |
| 4 | Our dominant motivations are those of rational self-interest and they tend to lead us into crime because crime , however defined , involves self-restraint . |
| 5 | God under takes to teach us through the Spirit if we will allow him to lead us into a closer understanding of and obedience to Jesus Christ . |
| 6 | Well Peter I 'm sorry but the notice only said once , Winston is meant to lead us into that I 'm sorry . |
| 7 | Patrick Robertson is talking about how he thinks we should deal with those duplicitous European politicians when they attempt to bounce us into their scheme for economic and monetary union at the Maastricht summit in December . |
| 8 | Donald , one of our neighbours , undertook to initiate us into the art of peat-cutting . |
| 9 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 10 | In the old days , there used to be crazes , Adam and the Ants , Gary Numan , absurd figures who nonetheless possessed a certain mesmeric force , managed to induct us into ludicrousness , like the Pied Piper . |
| 11 | Shakespeare 's technique , to let us into a secret that the hero will only discover for himself at the end , is a common one in playwriting and storytelling . |
| 12 | They kindly squashed up to let us into the shelter , whereupon all conversation ceased . |
| 13 | Then Aunt Bedelia made some cocoa and managed to draw us into conversation . |
| 14 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 15 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |
| 16 | The Novel gives a familiar relation of such things as pass every day before our eyes , such as may happen to our friends , or to ourselves , and the perfection of it is , to represent every scene in so easy and natural a manner , and to make them appear so probable , as to deceive us into a persuasion ( at least while we are reading ) that all is real , until we are affected by the joys or distresses , of the persons in the story , as if they were our own . |
| 17 | So I thought it no less than my duty to book us into somewhere special on the west coast for a week . |
| 18 | The discount system has the potential to run us into a substantial amount of trouble and I believe that very few people will be prepared to defend it in a year or two . |
| 19 | Pop 's role in this struggle is to lure us into truancy from our better selves . |
| 20 | These ‘ needs ’ constitute sources of control because they provide for both incentives and disincentives : their satisfaction can be used to lure us into conformity , and the threat of their denial can be used to divert us from criminality . |
| 21 | But our attitude towards them has to be based on the understanding that they want to transform us into a different party — a party which could never win , and might well not deserve to win , against a Conservative government which itself embraces the social market . |
| 22 | The Sergeant took us into the small canteen and told us quietly and forcefully that our holiday in Aubagne was over and that we were off to start four months of basic training designed to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 23 | They would spend the whole of the next four months with us during the time it took to turn us into legionnaires . |
| 24 | The Senate wants to merge us into University College and we 've been told we 'll have to get rid of some of our staff — it may all be very neat and tidy for the bureaucrats , but it 's going to be absolutely disastrous for some people . |
| 25 | In past centuries , shortages of military manpower used to force us into alliances with continental powers . |
| 26 | Eventually the Head of Customs authorised our documents so it was back to Gate One for the two remaining stamps to allow us into Austria . |
| 27 | We had sergeants and inspectors jumping on us for the least little thing and very often trying to get us into trouble , whereas young fellows learning the job , what we needed was assistance . |
| 28 | Stoke boss Lou Macari was more subdued as he admitted : ‘ It needed a little spark of magic up front to get us into the next round , but we did n't have that spark tonight . ’ |
| 29 | In the 80s , the banks , with poor management , had conspired with government to get us into this situation . |
| 30 | We can only require them to pay us , and not to get us into anything dangerous or illegal … ’ |