Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv prt] to the [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 2 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 3 | He even invited us round to the house one night , to give me a loan of a book on the Gothic Imagination . |
| 4 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 5 | Which must bring us back to the UK , which had dreadful years in 1991 and 1992 and which may not be much better in 1993 . |
| 6 | ‘ Be thankful I 'm not a Gunner : I 'd 've brought my theodolite along and surveyed us down to the inch every five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two . |
| 8 | This suggestion leads us on to the subject of the next chapter : the issue of how one uses authority . |
| 9 | And that , of course , leads us back to the question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 10 | It 's a weird phenomenon how the English bands turned us on to the music in our own part of the world — taught us to appreciate it . |
| 11 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 12 | This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day . |
| 13 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 14 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 15 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 16 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 17 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 18 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 19 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 20 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 21 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 22 | You followed us down to the river and waited until we returned . |
| 23 | I think he was watching the chateau for days and followed us down to the village . ’ |
| 24 | The walrus followed us in to the shallows , and we hurriedly jumped out on to the shore to get better pictures . |
| 25 | ‘ Nearly every year , ’ Joseph recalled , ‘ the agent came over from Lapwai and ordered us on to the reservation . |
| 26 | The heart , or the inner life , is therefore a great teacher , pointing us back to the source of all happiness — to God himself . |
| 27 | This calls us back to the ideas of alternate universes which we were discussing earlier . |
| 28 | ‘ You 'd better take us up to the refrigerator factory , ’ Gary said . |
| 29 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 30 | ‘ Ca n't you take us in to the Bus station ? |