Example sentences of "[prep] [verb] us to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Again , there are those who would quarrel with this view but let me tell you that we all have a mentor , an inner teacher , a guardian angel , a being of light who protects us and is totally dedicated to the task of leading us to the point of self-realization , to bring about the harmony and peace for which we pray . |
| 2 | He is in the business of conforming us to the image of his Son , and learning to handle conflict is a part of the spiritual maturity process . |
| 3 | It is not about explaining what is , but rather seeks to give an account of what is as the basis for developing a set of practices for getting us to what might be . |
| 4 | And God 's word is used in bringing us to new birth , in bringing us , er to faith in Jesus Christ . |
| 5 | My brother and I shared a room for a while but we soon had a partition put in allowing us to each have our separate rooms . |
| 6 | And the church as bible road to fame in alerting us to our responsibilities . |
| 7 | This distinction is not manifested in English directly , but it is perhaps indirectly : for the Contraction from let us to let's only seems felicitous if the us is understood inclusively , as illustrated below ( Fillmore , 1971b ) : ( 43 ) Let's go to the cinema ( 44 ) ? |
| 8 | Such childish poeticizing is reinforced , in directing us to the level of the infant , by the ‘ penny for the Old Guy ’ epigraph , by the dressing up as a scarecrow , and by the nursery rhyme , ‘ Twinkle twinkle little star ’ , which inescapably underlies the line ‘ Under the twinkle of a fading star ’ . |
| 9 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 10 | But why does this event persist in subjecting us to long rows of tap dancers , a breed of people whose only function in life is to display the disgusting effects of sweat and sequins under neon ? |
| 11 | That 's to say someone is leaving and we are going to take that post out and put it into the food section , and on b , I would say to Matthew that before committing us to a budget of two and a half thousand against a background of ten percent cuts , I would suggest that the health educational help-line and their day-long courses for E H Os might be made good use of in the forth-coming year . |
| 12 | You know very often , in fact usually the best way of working things out is to go right back to the beginning is n't it , it , to start off at square one and the trouble is sometimes we want to start in the middle , we want to pick it up where we think we can come in and it does n't work that way , we 've got to go right back to the beginning , and what is it at the beginning , well we look to see how God , what God 's plan and his purpose for us is , how God made us , it tells us there in the book of Genesis in the first chapter in verse twenty seven , that God created us to be like himself and you 've got to look in the mirror and I 've got to look in the mirror , not just the glass mirror on the wall , but into the mirror of ourselves and realise we do n't have to be intellectuals , we do n't have to be astute observers , but even the very cursory of glances will show to us that were nothing like it , if God made you and me to be in his image , then something has gone wrong , but that 's how we started , that is how he made us and in making us to be like himself that does something tremendous because it gives to men and women , it gives to human kind a status and a responsibility in creation , he did not make you and me like the animals , no matter how wonderful their abilities are , they 've got tremendous instincts , they 've got tremendous homing instincts , how that tiny bird weighing , weighing less than an ounce can fly thousands and thousands of miles , for the first time and come back , six , nine months later to the very spot where it was hatched out of an nest , now you ca n't do it , I ca n't do it , but for all wonders that God has put into the , into his , to his creative to his , in , in his creation , in animals , in birds and in other creatures , he has done something that marks you and I humanity out above and beyond all his others creation , he has given to us a status and a responsibility |
| 13 | We have seen most notably in left us to be succeeded by . |
| 14 | However , their analysis goes beyond encouraging us to ’ vote with our feet ’ , to a condemnation of consumerism itself : Both for the environmental destruction it causes and the damaging messages it sends women through ads that constantly tell us we 're ’ not being discreet enough ’ . |
| 15 | Moreover , it allows us to talk more confidently of a psychic and cognitive unity of humanity without limiting us to absolute categories . |
| 16 | I assume this can go ahead immediately , without tying us to a detailed course outline . |
| 17 | ‘ Revenge ’ is well on the way to taking us to that point where we want to be , ’ explained the one-time axe-wielding , fire-breathing bassman . |
| 18 | After the show , ’ said the fräulein , following an emotional and discursive preamble , ‘ the dresser woman I told you about introduced us to a man called Fedorov . |
| 19 | I think he was a bit apprehensive about that because he did n't know whether erm he was doing right by allowing us to be together in the |
| 20 | Sam , on occasion , played his part by taking us to the annual Kelvin Hall Circus and Carnival — a wonderful treat . |
| 21 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |