Example sentences of "[vb -s] us [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Apart from anything else , it leads us into several fascinating areas , such as etymology , linguistic fashion , verbal humour , and the expression of gender — the last two being particularly difficult roads to travel along , and where the bones of many an unwary linguist can be found along the way . |
| 32 | It leads us towards inner peace . |
| 33 | Therefore the poem leads us towards transcendental moments of revelation , scattered throughout , but climaxing at the Simplon Pass ( end of Book vi ) and the vision on Mount Snowdon in the last book of the poem ; in the same way Aeneas was granted a vision of the destiny of Rome in Book VI of the Aeneid , and Adam in Paradise Lost receives revelations on top of a high mountain . |
| 34 | The Clio reaches us in perfect condition , excepting a few scuffs on the steel wheel trims . |
| 35 | The bible forbids the taking of blood but we also believe it protects us against many of the medical problems which exist today |
| 36 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 37 | And he takes us , bad bargain that we are poor and miserable that we were , with nothing seemingly positive to offer , he takes us bag and baggage , he takes us with all our sin , with all our failure , with all our mistakes , he takes us with all that is , th th the clutters of our lives , he says you 're mine now . |
| 38 | Inspired by some of life 's strange and wonderful things , this collection takes us into 1991 with a message ; Be Bold , Be Colourful , but Be Yourself . |
| 39 | This takes us into some very interesting work about point of view . |
| 40 | One could go further and give more weight to differences with lower sampling variability , but that takes us into confirmatory statistics and beyond the scope of this book . |
| 41 | That takes us to Joint Planning and the part of the voluntary organisations play or should play in the process . |
| 42 | This takes us to four fifteen . |
| 43 | There is still a bus and it takes us to that hotel on the port . |
| 44 | And Monday 's sports spot takes us to another look at the main news stories . |
| 45 | Actually the solution to this minor conundrum is not all that difficult , but it takes us through some steps which are not relevant to our main line of discussion , and so we shall postpone it to an endnote to this chapter ( p. 79 ) . |
| 46 | The kind of reasoning that we have discussed , which takes us from a finite list of singular statements to the justification of a universal statement , which takes us from some to all , is called inductive reasoning and the process is called induction . |
| 47 | Major criticises US over global warming stance |
| 48 | The left-angled Swastika symbolizes the centripetal force related to the pull of gravity — the force which ties us to mental stagnation — decay and dissolution . |
| 49 | The Leeds average including the 39,106 that attended the QPR game is now 34,104 which keeps us in 4th place . |
| 50 | What I am suggesting is that this use of ultra simple " binary logic " , which is tied in with the way we recognize speech sounds , is an inbuilt feature of our psychological make-up which distinguishes us as human beings . |
| 51 | It is the capacity to feel , to reflect , to regret , to repent that distinguishes us from other creatures . |
| 52 | It symbolizes our social experience and locates us with social groups from which we draw our identities . |
| 53 | It draws us towards other ignored aspects of existence usually called the psychic , esoteric or occult and suggests a possible connection . |
| 54 | Inside the Glass House , heat surrounds us like wet felt . |
| 55 | It is because of the universality of the threat to freedom contained in homophobia that it becomes highly important that we try to avoid both the language which dissociates us from sexual acts by others in which we do not want to participate , and the attitudes which that language represents . |
| 56 | Obviously Delia Cope is a white middle class racist woman who really does n't care how she oppresses us as Black women . |
| 57 | Le corbeau tells us about human nature , not national character . |
| 58 | His main focus is what this dispersal tells us about human variation and evolution . |
| 59 | He tells us about Old Mother Walsh and how the snake is coming for him . |
| 60 | Peter Edwards tells us of one particular event recently . |