Example sentences of "[vb -s] we [adv prt] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He meets us over on the far side of the town at nine thirty P.M. ’ |
| 2 | Which leads us on to the big selling point of these guitars , since this is the first time a production Telecaster has been fitted with a five-way switch . |
| 3 | This consideration leads us on to the third major argument supporting secularism , that based on a lively concern for justice , peace , goodwill and genuine respect for people . |
| 4 | erm Sorry , I think we 'll just stick with Faulkner for a moment , because I think that leads us on to the constant tragedies of battle casualties , which were obviously very much brought in into Oxford whenever people were wounded outside they were often brought in to Oxford to be cared for , there was a hospital out of Yarnton too , but a great many were cared for all over Oxford , and the greatest of course were buried at Christchurch . |
| 5 | But the notion of the ‘ analytic ’ graduate also raises some difficult questions about the impact of the undergraduate curriculum on student development , which leads us on to the next chapter . |
| 6 | The cycle of death leads us on towards the urban landscape that follows . |
| 7 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 8 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 9 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 10 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 11 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 12 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 13 | It was also a shot which sets us up for the glorious conclusion to the match in the Singles the following day . |
| 14 | In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism . |
| 15 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraint of time ’ … |
| 16 | ‘ Increasingly more training is having to be organised internally , which brings us up against the major constraints of staff time ’ … |
| 17 | Talk of things that may or may not be art brings us on to the ever-popular topic , sex . |
| 18 | This brings us on to the second of Dworkin 's grounds for excluding such background policy issues from the jurisdiction of the courts , for if no one has a right to any particular form of decision-making process — whether a right to a hearing itself , a right to cross-examine witnesses or to be given reasons for a decision -this can only be because such a right can not be derived from the master principle of equal concern and respect . |
| 19 | And talking about feet brings us back to the first step . |
| 20 | And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text . |
| 21 | The White Paper clearly indicates the government 's intention of shifting the balance of provision away from local authorities , and this brings us back to the mixed economy of welfare or welfare pluralism . |
| 22 | Which brings us back to the Southern Effect . |
| 23 | Which brings us back to the Communist Party itself . |
| 24 | All of which brings us back to the 1987 State of World Population Report and its coded messages . |
| 25 | That brings us back to the domestic market and the attempts just 18 months ago by supermarket buyers to force lamb prices down to new depths and twist sheep farmers ' tails till their eyes popped . |
| 26 | But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ . |
| 27 | It brings us back to the old calculus of human happiness , back to the rationalisations by which different measures and patterns of investment are justified purely in terms of their direct or indirect benefit to ourselves . |
| 28 | Which brings us back to the old problem , ’ she finished on a slightly bitter note . |
| 29 | This brings us back to the underlying issue in this chapter about welfare and dependency . |
| 30 | This brings us back to the expressive order . |