Example sentences of "[to-vb] we to the [noun] of " in BNC.

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1 ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God .
2 To remove charitable status , at a cost of some five million pounds a year to Save The Children Fund , to relegate us to the status of a quango , is absolute rife nonsense .
3 Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son .
4 What we were doing was a half-hour walkabout to accustom us to the feel of the birds .
5 You did n't have to adjust the scale much , either , to reduce us to the sort of distant irrelevance of this bedraggled field .
6 Britten , by contrast , makes his Passacaglia the centrepiece of his drama , and uses the form to take us to the heart of Grimes 's tragedy .
7 But we need our own voice and vote at the top table to take us to the heat of Europe , not leave us on the periphery . ’
8 A truck waits on the shore to return us to the world of air-conditioners , crisp white sheets and hot showers , a world sustained by the river , and one whose insatiable demands are destroying it .
9 To reintroduce us to the joys of story telling round the log fire , Signals rounded up a slightly disconcerting group of five contemporary writers , all strange to me .
10 Justifiable regrets , therefore , about the effect of the iconoclasts ' activities on the nation 's ecclesiastical heritage should not be allowed to blind us to the sincerity of their motives .
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