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 | Our enjoyment of his resourcefulness can ( temporarily ! ) blind us to the moral significance of his actions . |
| 3 | Another Greek has cut down a Trojan who falls under the handle , leading us to the other side . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Laughter here might anaesthetize our feelings , deaden us to the moral issue . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | In that case , I argued that Darwin 's idea of natural selection would lead us to the correct answer . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . |
| 14 | Our discussion of the evolution of the logogen model has led us to the following view of the organisation of the mental lexicon . |
| 15 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | A two minute drive of heart stopping intensity , foot flat on the board across the open runway , would get us to the other side . |
| 18 | I 'll drive us to the rear door of a Doc Barnado 's or something . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ You can drive us to the front door of a pharmacy . |
| 20 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 ) . |
| 23 | Whelms us to the tired land where tasseling corn , |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | 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 ’ |
| 26 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
| 27 | The texts of Roman law bring us to the intriguing conclusion that by late classical times the only person who acquired property under trust and with it an unassailable title was the bona fide purchaser for value without notice . |
| 28 | Networks operating on this principle perform an operation that is likely to be extremely important for the neocortex , and it was actually the search for a mechanism that would do this that led us to the suggested modification rule : the modifiable interconnections tend to make the representative elements become uncorrelated , and thus to signal independently of each other . |
| 29 | And our proper anxiety to complement the market with collectively delivered provision has sometimes blinded us to the obvious point that the only real purpose of any provision is the satisfaction of individual needs , and that a failure in these terms will be judged harshly . |
| 30 | By contrast , the electronic mass media of our contemporary society have made all things new , or rather , have returned us to the primordial situation : |