Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Er , well Ray let us in on a little oak table erm and forget to ring up to find out whether |
| 2 | Chris Wolley emerged as a great choir leader and guitar player at this period and his strident voice leading the crew seemed to calm the roughest sea or cheer us up at the right moment . |
| 3 | Although the most recent writings on Mary have taken us away from the image of pantomime villainess or fairy queen , created in the sixteenth century and revived with such enthusiasm in the eighteenth and thereafter , and provided us instead with a human being of more believable proportions , nevertheless Mary still remains an infinitely more shadowy figure as queen of Scotland than her Stewart predecessors and successors . |
| 4 | My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see . |
| 5 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 6 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 7 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 8 | He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’ |
| 9 | The verve of the nursery rhyme spins us round in a sinister way , since it is disturbing to see the familiar ‘ mulberry bush ’ of the children 's rhyme replaced with the arid ‘ prickly pear ’ , making the rhyme like some distorted survival of a primitive chant . |
| 10 | After we left the lake , our friend drove us inland to a forested area where , he assured us we had a good chance of seeing a great grey owl . |
| 11 | Even the endlessly patient bicycle rickshaw drivers muttered curses under their breath as they drove us uphill through the narrowing funnel of tightly-packed houses . |
| 12 | picking us out in the battered kiosk . |
| 13 | ‘ A draw would keep us in with an outside chance of going to the States . |
| 14 | Johnny was immediately made captain , a position he held for nearly five years , and scored on his debut , but even Johnny 's seven goals from the 12 remaining games could not keep us out of the new basement division . |
| 15 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 16 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 17 | Which leads us on to the big selling point of these guitars , since this is the first time a production Telecaster has been fitted with a five-way switch . |
| 18 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 19 | The cycle of death leads us on towards the urban landscape that follows . |
| 20 | It 's especially interesting because our vocalist is female and black , which not only avoids the Tin Machine comparisons , but it gets us away from the whole rock'n'roll boy 's club scenario . |
| 21 | It gets us off to a wonderful start . ’ |
| 22 | We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents . |
| 23 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 24 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 25 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 28 | And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance . |
| 29 | I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division . |
| 30 | Ah well sure but then the whole lot goes , but , but , but , but , but this was , this was the document , I mean the way this was put forward , this is going to last us through into the foreseeable future . |