Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] to the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | This consideration leads us on to the third major argument supporting secularism , that based on a lively concern for justice , peace , goodwill and genuine respect for people . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But the notion of the ‘ analytic ’ graduate also raises some difficult questions about the impact of the undergraduate curriculum on student development , which leads us on to the next chapter . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ . |
| 14 | A ‘ cross theology ’ , not on its own , let me add , but central to our preaching , will take us back to the central verity of our faith . |
| 15 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 16 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |
| 17 | Can you drive us up to the Royal ? ’ |
| 18 | The industrial revolution and the creation of parks around the country houses have taken us down to the later years of the nineteenth century . |
| 19 | Our collections of still photographs take us back to the Crimean War , but for this century we have millions of feet of movie record , much of it unexplored . |
| 20 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
| 21 | Through that we obtained a middle generation , who then passed us on to the older generation of the family . |
| 22 | This brings us finally to the vexed sentence which sounds so anthropocentric : ‘ That end is man . ’ |
| 23 | This brings us again to the vital question of where sediments actually accumulate at the present day . |
| 24 | Talk of things that may or may not be art brings us on to the ever-popular topic , sex . |
| 25 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 26 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 27 | And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text . |
| 28 | The White Paper clearly indicates the government 's intention of shifting the balance of provision away from local authorities , and this brings us back to the mixed economy of welfare or welfare pluralism . |
| 29 | Which brings us back to the Southern Effect . |
| 30 | Which brings us back to the Communist Party itself . |