Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It ends : ‘ Will the tight budget bring us to a grinding halt ? |
| 2 | After climbing to the top of the largest crater , the boat took us to a small bay on Palea Kameni where you can swim to the hot springs and delve into the orange mud of the sea bed , supposedly wonderful for your skin ! |
| 3 | David Goldsmith treats us to a bumper four-page collection , including matting , bindings , boots and bleepers |
| 4 | The texts of Roman law bring us to the intriguing conclusion that by late classical times the only person who acquired property under trust and with it an unassailable title was the bona fide purchaser for value without notice . |
| 5 | Occasional cairns led us to a challenging rocky descent into another forest , full of rhododendron blossom , pine scents and birdsong . |
| 6 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 7 | The Feldwebel took us to a German Red Cross canteen . |
| 8 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |
| 9 | The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind . |
| 10 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 11 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 12 | This last point leads us to an important , but frequently misunderstood , concept in the analysis of discourse . |
| 13 | And are we to think that this loving God really wants us to linger on in pain and without dignity when , according to the same dogma , He is in any case calling us to a better life ? |
| 14 | A consideration of two dreams in Shakespeare 's plays takes us to a similar conclusion . |
| 15 | The festival days , the sacred plays and dance , the processions which move jangling through the villages at night quicken us to the hidden rhythms by which the island lives . |
| 16 | We had chosen our visit to coincide with the full moon , but it also coincided with a period of maximum solar flare activity , and on every clear night the Lights treated us to a spectacular show in green and red . |
| 17 | These questions take us to the very heart not only of recent theological debate about Barth , but of the inner problematic of the entire development of modern theology as we are tracing it . |
| 18 | These reflections lead us to an alternative view of pressure group power in Britain : that the strongest weapons are forms of direct action and not the manipulation of electoral choice . |
| 19 | After the shopping spree Mary took us to a little tea shop for tea and cakes and then we returned happily with our presents . |
| 20 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |
| 21 | Boswell brings us to the very bones — literally — of their excursion to the churchyard behind the stable-block . |
| 22 | If our ideological preconceptions incline us to an exclusive interest in standard English , we will produce what is in effect a history of literary English ; this will exclude and neglect other historical patterns that are capable of enriching our description of the history of spoken English and , ultimately , of adding to our understanding of the general phenomenon of linguistic change . |
| 23 | We invited Corpus Christi to tea and they in turn invited us to a sumptuous Sunday brunch in their garden overlooking Christ Church meadow . |
| 24 | Is the Prime Minister aware , first , that people will want to study in detail what he has brought back and will need far more time to do that , and , secondly , that a treaty committing us to a European union probably represents an even bigger change than our entry into the Community in 1975 , the long-term effect of which over many Parliaments will be great ? |
| 25 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 26 | After two or three days of exploring Stanley and its environs it was time to go to ‘ camp ’ ( from a Spanish word ‘ campos ’ meaning countryside ) and our tour of the islands took us to the three or four places equipped to deal with small parties of visitors . |
| 27 | Enzensberger invites us to a ghastly repetition of the corsi e ricorsi of humanity 's blind tragedy . |
| 28 | Our second association item takes us to a late autumn in the next reign . |
| 29 | A steep climb through bracken and bilberries brought us to a wide rocky plateau . |
| 30 | ‘ I do n't know why we keep coming here , ’ says an older clown on the bus shuttling us to the big top , ‘ all it does is rain on us and blow us about . ’ |