Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 2 | And on the ones cos they were trying to s screw us down to the floor and on the popular metric where they I knew they were gon na they could find better suppliers , I was only about two per cent on some of those . |
| 3 | He even invited us round to the house one night , to give me a loan of a book on the Gothic Imagination . |
| 4 | The teacher invited us round to his cottage one evening for dinner and to talk about releasing owls into the wild , which we had just started doing around that time ( I 'll tell you more about that later ) . |
| 5 | Joe invited us out to lunch , which was what I had been hoping for , because we were both more or less on our uppers . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | They have no relevance to the story , but do bring us up to date and give the all-important illusion of gravitas which accompanies everything Branagh does . |
| 8 | Undoubtedly , the Under-Secretary of State will bring us up to date on that . |
| 9 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 10 | And do n't worry : Masha will bring us back to earth tonight . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 13 | The ride itself was reasonably uneventful , a marvellous tailwind pushing us all the way to Royston for the first seventy miles , then pushing us back to Royston for the next hundred miles . |
| 14 | After we left the lake , our friend drove us inland to a forested area where , he assured us we had a good chance of seeing a great grey owl . |
| 15 | With little choice they drove us sullenly to the hotel . |
| 16 | The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability . |
| 17 | Anyway , we pulled ourselves together and pretended to be pleased to see him , and then he drove us back to London like a maniac , keeping up a stream of gibberish which after a while I stopped listening to . |
| 18 | They stitched up my face , very crudely , and then we rang a friend of this girl , who drove us back to her house and we lay and took pain-killers . |
| 19 | It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity . |
| 20 | I think it 's really quite heartening to see so many aspects that the City Council are already taking notice of , and really are already putting it into their policies to view the environment as something precious , something we 've got to look after , but you 're warning us not to be too complacent are n't you ? |
| 21 | So Gillian told us just to , i if she could phone nan . |
| 22 | He 's from the North , talks a bit like us , he 's got the same kind of outlook and he told us not to be taken in by America , that it 's not real . |
| 23 | There are people now who are questioning society , whereas in the 80s the government told us not to and the cinema reflected that . |
| 24 | Two weeks ago in church the snivelling little bastard got up in the pulpit and told us not to be frightened of death . |
| 25 | ‘ Be thankful I 'm not a Gunner : I 'd 've brought my theodolite along and surveyed us down to the inch every five minutes . ’ |
| 26 | If Ministers are serious about wanting us not to be governed by unaccountable bureaucrats , why are they not leading in the argument that those decisions that have to be taken at European level are fully accountable to a stronger European Parliament that is elected by a fair system ? |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 29 | I was half asleep when he showed us up to our rooms , Ward and I sharing one at the rear of the building , which , in place of beds , had a double-tier bunk in the corner . |
| 30 | She took us back to the house where a servant showed us up to our rooms . |