Example sentences of "and [verb] us [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Its vast walls of flint and glass and Gothic tracery were brilliantly floodlit and the churchyard cat , sleek and black as tar , greeted us querulously and led us right round the church and through the gravestones at the back , glimmering and pale in the moonlight . |
| 2 | He then gave the order to move off and led us out of the abbey gate . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Deveraugh , ’ she said , shaping the words with lips flattened by barely suppressed rage , ‘ you will turn this boat around , right now , and head us back in the direction of the rafts . ’ |
| 4 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 5 | They put us back into a van and let us out in the street . |
| 6 | ‘ Be thankful I 'm not a Gunner : I 'd 've brought my theodolite along and surveyed us down to the inch every five minutes . ’ |
| 7 | This view is pervasive amongst ordinary members of the RUC and leads us directly to the issue of how Northern Ireland 's divisions affect policemen and women , which the following chapters begin to address . |
| 8 | This uniform of dark serge symbolized our insider status and separated us completely from the ‘ civvies ’ out there in the rest of the world . |
| 9 | But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’ |
| 10 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division . |
| 13 | Our fleet now consisted of three " V " vessels , Venturous , Vigilant and Valiant , all well equipped , modern , purpose-built patrol boats which were worked hard and served us well for the next ten years . |
| 14 | I think he was watching the chateau for days and followed us down to the village . ’ |
| 15 | ‘ Nearly every year , ’ Joseph recalled , ‘ the agent came over from Lapwai and ordered us on to the reservation . |
| 16 | The event was so unusual that ‘ people crowded the streets , filled the windows , covered the housetops , and cheered us all along the line , with the heartiest welcome ’ , wrote Cook afterwards . |
| 17 | erm , so I could n't carry the wallpaper so the lass says well you ca n't carry it , she says I 'll phone you a taxi , I says okay , so she phoned this , she says any , any particular one , I says I 'll have that one beside us like so phoned association , they 'll be erm , you , you know call up and they came and er pick me up and brought us back with the paper , he charged one pound twenty and I 'm saying to myself one pound twenty , that 's a damn disgrace , by hell I 'll not get that taxi again |
| 18 | He seemed pleased to remind us of yet more evidence of Bouilland 's humming modernity , and took us out into the sun again . |
| 19 | There the story remained until December 1988 when six members of the Fenland Aircraft Preservation Society ( FAPS ) organised a field reconnaissance and met with a local farmer who remembered the crash and took us along to the field . |
| 20 | And to force us out into the open . ’ |
| 21 | Reflecting a befuddlement judges often express when dealing with science ( and revealing again that science is not yet part of the mainstream of education ) one of the justices said : ‘ There are Harvard law professors on both sides of this case ; I had hoped you could get together and lead us out of the wilderness . ’ |
| 22 | There was , I remember , quite a restful interlude up some alley or other , during which we reclined panting on a heap of cardboard boxes ; then two young men jovially gathered us up and escorted us back into the action . |
| 23 | At this point the two girls just marched off the train , one of them picked up David , the other one picked me up , screamed Russian things at the soldiers — I have n't a clue what they were saying — and marched us back on the train and barred the door , while the Russian soldiers were standing on the platform screaming horrible things at them . |
| 24 | Such motivations cut across different media and remind us again of the extent to which media permeate our lives . |
| 25 | If you want any more details at all , you just need to pick up the phone and call us here at the Trent F M Careline on |
| 26 | So I trooped down there and muscled us in on the Bazooka Joe gig . |
| 27 | They played some great stuff and ran us all over the place . |
| 28 | Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory . |
| 29 | This would take the steam out of the refugee crisis and help us on towards the relaxed and variegated community of states across Europe as a whole which is likely to be the real guarantee of security . |
| 30 | This places his discourse firmly in the domain of public cultural policy and returns us directly to the concerns of the Newbolt Committee , indeed to one of its major areas of anxiety : " Whether the class.consciousness which has hitherto formed the chief force of [ linguistic ] stability in Great Britain , will continue to influence the masses , has yet to be seen . " |