Example sentences of "get us [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I 'm beginning to feel that the whole anti-smoking campaign has got us nowhere . |
| 2 | Once the instructor had got us up , by lift , to where the air is rarefied , he disappeared . |
| 3 | I do n't enjoy this any more than you do , but it 's got us well and truly trapped , has n't it ? |
| 4 | ‘ George , he 's got us over a barrel . |
| 5 | GUIL : He 's got us now . |
| 6 | They 've got us down that we won ! |
| 7 | It 's especially interesting because our vocalist is female and black , which not only avoids the Tin Machine comparisons , but it gets us away from the whole rock'n'roll boy 's club scenario . |
| 8 | As Louise Hay points out , we do this all the time — and it gets us nowhere . |
| 9 | Realizing the importance of schemas and scripts is the first step , but that in itself gets us nowhere unless we push on to consider how a manager can discover what schemas actually exist and , if they are inappropriate , how to change them . |
| 10 | ‘ Mere drunkenness gets us nowhere . ’ |
| 11 | In order to do this , we classify the adverts into types " aimed at women " and " aimed at men " ( we could instead have classified them as " television " versus " magazine " or " Italian " versus " British " , etc. ; and if our first attempt to classify gets us nowhere we might try one or more of these alternatives at a later stage ) . |
| 12 | A very nice symbolic action , but on its own it gets us exactly nowhere . |
| 13 | Gets us there . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | And this gets us back to looking at process . |
| 16 | We may now represent the mental capacities of the cerebral hemispheres of an advanced organism in a simple model that gets us far closer to the condition of our own species ( Fig. 2. i ) . |
| 17 | It gets us off to a wonderful start . ’ |
| 18 | Consider those if that gets us anywhere . |
| 19 | ‘ Get us away from here , ’ he said sharply , and the other man guided the smaller boat away , allowing it to pick up speed . |
| 20 | We thought there was some sort of divine providence which would somehow or other get us away . |
| 21 | And I get us up in the morning now and , she said she said the temperature rises to sometimes a hundred and twenty in the summer ! |
| 22 | And that get us up to a certain distance , but even then that method must fail when you get beyond a certain distance . |
| 23 | " So am I , Fiddy , so am I. Oh , go and get us both a glass of brandy , woman . |
| 24 | You just get us there . |
| 25 | Cut the engines and get us aboard . ’ |
| 26 | ‘ Get us home , ’ she said , ‘ as quick as you can . ’ |
| 27 | I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division . |
| 28 | To calm us down , get us out of the house . |
| 29 | We 'd get our demands because anything was done to shut us up and get us out of their offices . |
| 30 | There 's the notorious low-rise Noble Court stranded beside a highway overlooking the Tyne with " Get us out of this hell " written on the wall . |