Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | All that postmodernism has been able to do is signal the demise and loss of all we have held dear , and it remains for another generation of artists to pull us out of the mire . |
| 2 | The guys at New Deal filled us in with the latest on Harrow skatepark . |
| 3 | The walrus followed us in to the shallows , and we hurriedly jumped out on to the shore to get better pictures . |
| 4 | Then the force suspending us up among the chandeliers evaporated . |
| 5 | The italicised words take us back to the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ , and remind us that the fundamental difficulty of all curriculum planning — how to get a quart into a pint pot — still remains to be addressed . |
| 6 | We have a very busy programme to take us through to the end of the year . |
| 7 | This question led us off into the usual calculations that take place on these occasions , sprinkled with the odd exclamation of ‘ No ! ’ , |
| 8 | Although Mark 's expert navigation round the lesser-known hedegrows of Hampshire got us out of the bumper-to-bumper mess , I almost regretted leaving cos I expect there was a huge party somewhere on the middle of the M3 ( ‘ let's all have a disco ’ , etc . ) |
| 9 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 10 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 11 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 12 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 13 | The importance of withdrawal brings us back to the issue of women 's sexual dependency and the fact that some degree of male cooperation was necessary , if only a willingness to be pushed out of the way . |
| 14 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 15 | A branch line train took us to Aubagne where a coach picked us up for the journey up to the camp . |
| 16 | This last point leads us directly to the question of the problematic ending to the story . |
| 17 | It 's a weird phenomenon how the English bands turned us on to the music in our own part of the world — taught us to appreciate it . |
| 18 | Graham saw us on to the train and went by car to Pendre Works where the Talyllyn has its workshops . |
| 19 | The technique of rotational coherence spectroscopy illustrates particularly well the advantages of working in the time , rather than the frequency , domain — even if some of its most useful applications move us away from the femtosecond world . |
| 20 | Our evolutionary story takes us now beyond the proto-reptiles , the lizard-like ancestors of both reptiles and dinosaurs . |
| 21 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 22 | Language provides the vehicle for this , and the syntax and content of the recall or response tell us much about the way the individual thinks and remembers . |
| 23 | Ricard led us out into the garden . |
| 24 | Until then , the platform holds us out against the townscape |
| 25 | Alarm clocks waking us up in the middle of the night ; absenteeism at an all-time high during the day games ; the thrill of success and the despair of defeat for the national team — they were new experiences to many . |
| 26 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 27 | Here we saw our first knife-fight which was clearly to the death — and Abu hustled us away from the milling throng which surrounded the two furious young combatants who rolled around like snakes in the dust attempting to stab each other with their " badiks " , the seaman 's dagger which few of the locals went without . |
| 28 | This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day . |
| 29 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 30 | P On Sept 16 the Pounds crashed and Lamont pulled us out of the ERM . |