Example sentences of "[adv] [verb] us into " in BNC.
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1 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
2 | Joyce confronts us with a piece of apparently inept , uncontextualized , childish language lacking normal " prosaic " logical transitions , and so shocks us into a re-experience ( rather than a reminiscence ) of the childhood consciousness from which the " young man 's portrait " will gradually evolve in his novel . |
3 | No wonder they easily recruit us into joining their narcissistic self-contemplation . |
4 | This finally leads us into a series of other more practical questions . |
5 | Could you just let us into his rooms so she can get them ? |
6 | He is forever telling us what he will do and why , forever taking us into his confidence . |
7 | So , one Member of Parliament 's idea ‘ to have girl muggers whipped ’ would turn back the clock to the 1820s when corporal punishment for women was abolished , whereas another Parliamentary recommendation to ‘ Bring back stocks for hooligans ’ would presumably transport us into the Dark Ages . |
8 | It would also take us into a political world which , despite some continuities , was significantly different from that in which party politics first developed , came to fruition , and reached a climax under the later Stuarts . |
9 | Efforts to do so are misplaced and can positively mislead us into believing in the efficacy of the internal organization of the structure of the company as a means of legitimating corporate managerial power . |
10 | Two big Chicago House DJs are rumoured to be rolling up later to take us into town . |
11 | ‘ It has really played us into the game and I think the Prime Minister has made a considerable mistake . |
12 | ‘ That pulled us out of trading losses , but it still did n't really get us into a healthy trading position , ’ Tony Harrison recalls . |
13 | Cooking to Please takes us into the 1990s . ’ |
14 | Once again we may stress that any attempt to describe syntax by assessing the logical possibilities of combination of the " type " meanings which words and other lexical items may have in the dictionary will simply launch us into the wrong enterprise . |
15 | The teachers have been very badly trained , but are very open and welcoming — they even allow us into their lessons . |
16 | In the case of the letter and the drawer , the signs fail in their indexical function because , appearing as they do in an isolated expression , they simply direct us into a void . |
17 | It even took us into Cambridge a few times , but that was pushing it a bit — and once or twice we really had to . |
18 | did n't even last us into New |
19 | We do n't need to see er leaflets and so on urging us into merger before they 're actually ready to take place from the membership itself . |
20 | An austere prior welcomed us into his chamber and listened carefully to Benjamin 's request . |
21 | You 'll notice on the overhead cost the big cost is the advertising which is two and a half million pounds and that unfortunately takes us into a a net loss at the end of the year of one point almost two million pounds . |
22 | The coach then took us into the Wachau Valley for lunch at another 5-star hotel and then after a short walk through the medieval village and Durnstein Castle , we went on to the ‘ UND ’ Monastery at Krems for a wine tasting . |
23 | The two were handcuffed together , taken off the bus and put in the back of the police car which then escorted us into town with lights flashing and siren blaring . |
24 | ‘ They worked hard to get us into Europe and now there 's no perk for them . |
25 | He almost ran us into the back of a streetcar . ’ |
26 | It can either lead us into bitterness and despair , or it can drive us towards greater sensitivity and responsibility and a deepening love for God and for others . |
27 | Dr Woodman cleverly got us into them even earlier . |
28 | Opposing censorship therefore leads us into the position of defending pornography . |