Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] us to [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 2 | Can you help us to a better understanding ? |
| 3 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 6 | Reluctantly , he took us to a single kennel at the back of the offices . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He conducted us to a new restaurant , the Hungry Horse , which was pronouncedly ‘ gay ’ , with all the young waiters in tight-fitting cotton trousers of small blue-and-white checks . |