Example sentences of "us [adv prt] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And hopefully it will lead us on to deepen and enrich ourselves , providing a strong foundation for a new way of life . |
| 2 | Our discussion of such surveys both at the national and local level lead us on to examine the impact of crime on women and ethnic minorities , and to a broader consideration of how these groups are treated by the criminal justice system . |
| 3 | But if we can say Yes to this acid test , then we will find several other reasons for planting churches today which will spur us on to do so . |
| 4 | joined us on to assist in the office . |
| 5 | joined us on to assist in the laboratory , ( she likes to be called ! ) . |
| 6 | Should we just enjoy the things that touch us in a painting or should it spur us on to learn more ? |
| 7 | … she call us in to do 'er dirty work for her , build 'er up , she wants us out again 'cos she see that we 're gettin' education and we 're gettin' brainy , and we 're comin' into power so she wants us all out before we reach too high . |
| 8 | Gironella has said he was drawn to this painting because Lezcano is holding some playing cards , so his disconcertingly direct gaze is inviting us in to test our wits and/or our luck against him . |
| 9 | We 'd played in St. Albans and I 'd met a girl there , Claire , She was the Social Secretary at the college who 'd booked us in to play . |
| 10 | I went down to give Gregory and Lambert a hand with the timber , and Brother Richard called us in to help shift things within . |
| 11 | ‘ Ianthe has invited us in to have a glass of sherry , ’ she said , hoping that Ianthe would invite Rupert too . |
| 12 | But it was the scabs er that well they put us down to start with , and then the was picket line started cracking up was the these lads not prepared to do it . |
| 13 | This was Elisabeth Lee ; she invited us down to look round while she went off to collect her child . |
| 14 | But he was grinning and called us over to join him . |
| 15 | So Steve marches us off to find decent accommodation . |
| 16 | Although it was very late , Otto whisked us off to dine that night at a restaurant some way along the coast . |
| 17 | He took us up to see the students , and the very first ones I saw were Sonia Lawson , already a highly gifted artist , daughter of my friends Fred and Muriel in Redmire ; and one of my best students from Corsham , the vivacious , beautiful and witty Helen Dear , the shining light of my so-called ‘ duds ’ . |
| 18 | I keep , apart from the fact that we 've got an enormous number of deadlines , but David keeps saying , ’ we must stop ’ , and then people ring us up and say ’ Oh , I , can I do this ’ , and we 've , you know people say , ’ Oh , well , I play the saxophone ’ , and then we find out that he 's got a huge band and he 's very famous , and they 've just rung us up to say , you know , can we play for you for free . |
| 19 | Interestingly enough , the Monday after the first episode was shown , a film company rang us up to ask how the titles had been done . |
| 20 | All it will do is alienate a lot of women who are n't radical feminists , and open us up to ridicule from our enemies . |
| 21 | What ! — IM ) Do n't drag us back to pop 's godawful stack-heeled era ( Oh that — IM ) . |
| 22 | It even allowed them to forge a media-induced ‘ rivalry ’ with the abysmal , donkey-dancing Take That ! , which brings us back to pop muzak and why it 's dying on its arse . |
| 23 | Line B drives us back to read line A again in the light of what line B has added to line A. |
| 24 | He sent us back to have our children killed ! ’ |
| 25 | The doctor sent us back to work even though my eyes were really bad . |
| 26 | When he is n't at work he likes to take us out to visit our nanny . |
| 27 | " Take us around to see Eddie . " |
| 28 | We 're all prone to do that , were all prone to take the line of least resistance and you find this not just in the truth but in any sort of community in life , in any area of life that wish to go , you , you may find this at work or at school , you youngsters , there 's always a little Johnny at the back is n't it , that , that will fit in the back row and think if I 'm back here teacher wo n't notice you see , were act were actually tuck himself up in the corner and er think well if I 'm , if I 'm up here nobody will notice me and see the day goes by and er we do n't have so much to do , those are the type of people that in , in , in a physical life er sort of going to sleep are n't they , they do n't want to accept responsibility and we , we find even in the truth , you 'll always find it in congregations like we have here in our congregation , we 're not different , we 're all the same are n't we , we 're all flesh and we 're all imperfect and we 're all prone to doing or wanting to do the things that are different or you know than , than what Jehovah wants us to do and we all want to tuck ourselves up a little corner sometimes and yet we should n't be like that and this is what the scriptures tell us and warn us about to put ourselves headlong into the truth , be whole sole , be awake , be alert , be vigilant to the things that are going on and there 's a lot going on in the truth at this particular time , things are changing , the scriptures tell us that the scene of the world is changing and that 's true is n't it ? |
| 29 | Prof Eno took us round to see Morrissey , because he lives nearby in Oscar Wilde 's old cottage and he was too ‘ ill ’ to come on the outing . |