Example sentences of "[vb mod] [verb] us [adv] to the " in BNC.

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1 Which must bring us back to the UK , which had dreadful years in 1991 and 1992 and which may not be much better in 1993 .
2 I 'll drive us out to the Sun , we 'll eat , then we 'll fuck ! ’
3 Well yes , but that , remember we provided for up to two hundred million which we thought would see us through to the end of ninety two .
4 After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ .
5 These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock .
6 Er we at the County Council think that to delete that Greater York erm dimension would take us back to the realms of uncertainty , past uncertainty , in the Greater York area , we 're therefore proceeding with a Greater York dimension in policy H One at none thousand seven hundred dwellings , which equates to hundred percent migration .
7 The teacher would call us up to the front of the class to recite it , and woe betide anyone who faltered .
8 John Pilger may point us back to the lessons of Vietnam or even the Falklands , but we also live day-to-day with distorted coverage of Ireland and it does n't seem to bother us too much .
9 A ‘ cross theology ’ , not on its own , let me add , but central to our preaching , will take us back to the central verity of our faith .
10 Many people will be concerned at my suggestion that drawing should be taught in our schools , perhaps fearing that it will take us back to the kind of dull lesson I have described , with children being taught unimaginative and stereotyped ways of drawing .
11 Then there 's Helen , who knows everybody and is highly respected to say nothing of Betty , who will praise us up to the skies even before we 've spayed one cat . ’
12 ‘ There 's only one ride that will get us back to the east of the Swamp and that 's the one we 've come by .
13 A discussion in our house on ( let's say ) the necessity of buying a new fridge will move swiftly to the education system ( via the rival claim of school fees to the purchase of the fridge ) and whether a move to another area might obviate the need for paying them , taking in a quick discourse on the immorality of contributing to the divisive education system in this country anyway ; this will lead to the if-we-sold-our-suburban-villa-we-could-buy-a-Georgian-manor-house-in-the-country conversation ; which will in its turn move on quite quickly to the horrors of British Rail and the greatly increased subjection to them that such a move would entail ; then we get to leaving all our friends behind , and to debating whether having them to stay at the weekends would not be perfectly satisfactory ; which will remind us that two or more of them are coming to dinner that very night and we 'd better get down to the off-licence ; then it 's shall-we-get-Muscadet-or-the-Chardonnay- again and for-heaven's-sake-get-enough which will get us back to the fridge , on account of last time we got the Chardonnay , I did n't put it in it soon enough .
14 It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity .
15 ‘ Well , Archie has a boat , and he says he can take us out to the bird islands , and I 'm sure we could get him to take you somewhere in the Land-Rover where you can fish .
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