Example sentences of "[to-vb] us to the " in BNC.
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1 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
2 | To remove charitable status , at a cost of some five million pounds a year to Save The Children Fund , to relegate us to the status of a quango , is absolute rife nonsense . |
3 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
4 | What we were doing was a half-hour walkabout to accustom us to the feel of the birds . |
5 | We had no friends or family to accompany us to the church . |
6 | Our young gallant here , ’ he waved his hand contemptuously at Geoffrey , ‘ was asked to accompany us to the parapet but it 's well known he 's terrified of heights . ’ |
7 | You did n't have to adjust the scale much , either , to reduce us to the sort of distant irrelevance of this bedraggled field . |
8 | You may be able to keep us to the straight and narrow . |
9 | However , this is not intended to condemn us to the conclusion that changes in society are the chance results of unrelated factors . |
10 | European Tour , did their best to try to get us to the 1st tee . |
11 | To get us to the sustainable financial position I have just referred to , we have accelerated the pace of implementing our strategy of focusing our assets , increasing our cost-efficiency and improving our performance . |
12 | I would like to thank all the members erm , who 've served on that committee and indeed the officers who 've worked for it , because a lot of the background work and a lot of the er , consultation with departments has been necessary to get us to the erm , reasonably satisfactory stage we 're at , considering the ext extremely severe restrictions on government ex , er , on local government spending , er resulting from the cap . |
13 | Several transports were sent to convey us to the camp , and they were certainly less basic than the RAF ones we were used to , and when we arrived at the aircraft hangar where the jollifications were being held , it was ablaze with coloured lights and swarming with people , and a seven piece band was being very loud on the platform . |
14 | Surkov signed the bill for our teas , and it was time to board the coach to take us to the late-afternoon theatrical performance . |
15 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
16 | The car which we had ordered to take us to the station never appeared , and we travelled instead in a dilapidated tonga . |
17 | Eventually a man from the tower arrived , and a little bus came to take us to the aircraft . |
18 | Onions are the link to take us to the nearby open market where we see these and other vegetables on display . |
19 | We can tell that the writer is eager to take us to the climax . |
20 | ‘ We have n't got the money to go out and buy the clothes , ’ Guy states , ‘ to take us to the next stage of achievement . |
21 | Paul Ingouf then said that they wished to take us to the spot where the aircraft had crashed . |
22 | We found that the walk to Fuglafjell was farther ( and much rougher ) than we had anticipated , so we persuaded a fisherman to take us to the bird cliffs in his boat . |
23 | The Vice-Chairman was unable to fill the vacant position so an interim administration was formed to take us to the next assembly . |
24 | It was certainly true that now , when at last it looked as if we might have our prahu , an increasing number of extremely sinister nakodas were approaching us with offers to take us to the Aru Islands . |
25 | On our way home via New York , some ‘ dear ’ friends ( as in generous ) , fixed us a stretch limo to take us to the airport . |
26 | Britten , by contrast , makes his Passacaglia the centrepiece of his drama , and uses the form to take us to the heart of Grimes 's tragedy . |
27 | But we need our own voice and vote at the top table to take us to the heat of Europe , not leave us on the periphery . ’ |
28 | We are told who sits for what , where , what our majorities are and the swing needed to return us to the real word and gainful occupation . |
29 | A truck waits on the shore to return us to the world of air-conditioners , crisp white sheets and hot showers , a world sustained by the river , and one whose insatiable demands are destroying it . |
30 | By the time somebody finds them there 'll be nothing to link us to the killings . ’ |