Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] to [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And that might seem a rather odd way to actually spend some of your redundancy money , but perhaps this leads us on to another area influencing the demand , and that 's to do with , if you like , psychology . |
| 2 | There were four of us , and our father , who was the Wesleyan Chapel steward , knew that cinema films would overstimulate our brains , give us over to vain imaginings and , worse , tempt us to worship false gods . |
| 3 | Glenn takes us on to better things . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | It really takes us back to this question of managing information and of organising to do this . |
| 6 | Brought us quicker to this point . ’ |
| 7 | Around that time , we heard about a network , which could link us up to other cocoa workers around the world . |
| 8 | there we go Blondie , Island of Lost Souls , taking us round to eighteen minutes before eight o'clock on a Tuesday night , a Radio Nottingham Sports Special , Notts on the Italia trail tonight . |
| 9 | This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy . |
| 10 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 11 | 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 " . |
| 12 | He predicted the economy will start to grow again next year by one per cent , after contracting by one per cent this year — bringing us back to 1991 levels by 1993 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 15 | This brings us inevitably to international law : the rules which make agreements between states binding ; the rules which seek to limit from the outside the kinds of actions which states may take in relation to each other and provide a framework within which they may negotiate . |
| 16 | ‘ Which brings us back to that window . |