Example sentences of "[verb] us to the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise . |
| 2 | but power us to the next disgrace . |
| 3 | Our enjoyment of his resourcefulness can ( temporarily ! ) blind us to the moral significance of his actions . |
| 4 | Another Greek has cut down a Trojan who falls under the handle , leading us to the other side . |
| 5 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 6 | Laughter here might anaesthetize our feelings , deaden us to the moral issue . |
| 7 | I myself would I am sure hereafter regret not visiting this part of V. D. L. , and under all circumstances I have agreed with Lady Franklin to wait one week longer after which to return if the wind should not come round to the eastward or northeast , either of these winds would take us to the desired place in a few hours . |
| 8 | Tragically the story of God 's wrestling match makes all too good sense , and a tale which bears so clearly the marks of its primitive beginnings can take us to the very summit of Calvary , and deep into the still broken heart of God . |
| 9 | We continue now along the Rua da Carreira , past the many small restaurants and bread and cake shops until we come to a street on the right called Rua do Quebra Costas which will take us to the English Church , hidden behind a high wall in a large garden . |
| 10 | These two areas of convergence also direct us to the main area of divergence and the reason why , though in actuality inextricably related , the psychic and the cultural return of homosexuality still need to be distinguished . |
| 11 | No one , in this cast of hundreds , has just a walk-on part : a role in just one Goldwyn film entitles us to the full biography of Frances Farmer , from winning a teenage essay competition to her eventual confinement in an asylum . |
| 12 | In that case , I argued that Darwin 's idea of natural selection would lead us to the correct answer . |
| 13 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 14 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 15 | After dinner he took us to the Royal College of Art , where he seemed proud to be an honorary member of the faculty club and students ' union . |
| 16 | ‘ 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 . |
| 17 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 18 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |
| 19 | A short walk along the coastline past the few prettily painted small hotels brought us to the gorgeous bay lined with palm trees which we shared with the numerous shy crabs which intermittently popped out of the holes in the white sand . |
| 20 | A two minute drive of heart stopping intensity , foot flat on the board across the open runway , would get us to the other side . |
| 21 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
| 22 | I 'll drive us to the rear door of a Doc Barnado 's or something . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ You can drive us to the front door of a pharmacy . |
| 24 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 25 | Every road junction has a multitude of signposts in a variety of languages , but we did n't see on that would have directed us to the Roman site . |
| 26 | From the highly personalised work of Alexis Hunter and Maggie Jennings to the business of print making by Sylvie Turner and an introduction to women and print making by Pat Gilmour ( who introduced us to the innovative work of June Wayne ) . |
| 27 | Whelms us to the tired land where tasseling corn , |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 30 | The Vice-Chairman was unable to fill the vacant position so an interim administration was formed to take us to the next assembly . |