Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we recognize how far classroom competence has its roots in status and recognition , how closely the different elements of teachers ' lives are tied together in a coherent structure of meaning and motivation , then the policy implications lead us not to personality-based initiatives or more careful selection , compulsory redundancy to remove ‘ incompetents ’ from the profession , or redeployment and encouraging early retirement , but to strategies which will improve the levels of reward and recognition in the system in terms of pay , planning time , in-service opportunity and the like , and in terms of positive ( not punitive ) systems of staff support and development . |
| 2 | Glenn takes us on to better things . |
| 3 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 4 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 5 | The first source takes us back to ancient Egypt where the sacred cat was thought to bestow many blessings on the household that looked after it . |
| 6 | As ‘ literary allusions ’ the Shakespearian references point us back to previous dramatic interpretations of events rather than directly to ‘ real events ’ . |