Example sentences of "[vb -s] us to the " in BNC.
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| 2 | The old , old fashion — Death ! ( 4 ) Oh thank GOD , all who see it , for that older fashion yet , of immortality ! ( 5 ) And look upon us , angels of young children , with regards not quite estranged , when the swift river bears us to the ocean ! ( 6 ) At such points Dickens has a way of enlarging his theme beyond the narrative pretext , addressing his readers directly as sharers of a common human lot with himself and his characters . |
| 3 | It is this perspective which links us to the work of Goffman , Harre and Giddens . |
| 4 | Week 1 The Church 's Liturgy introduces us to the prophet Isaiah whose words echo throughout Advent , calling us joyfully to live in God 's presence . |
| 5 | When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton . |
| 6 | In Valentina 's Italian Family Feast ( Conran Octopus , £15.99 ) , TV favourite Valentina Harris takes us on a tour of Italy and introduces us to the food served by her family at parties and other celebrations . |
| 7 | This description introduces us to the tramp and gives us a rough picture of him . |
| 8 | This leads us to the composition and behaviour of sports crowds , especially at football matches and the current debate about the reasons for hooliganism . |
| 9 | He leads us to the studio , where an interpreter relays another strange question to rapper and part-time Internationalist Wildski . |
| 10 | Consideration of the duration of unemployment leads us to the possibility that a significant proportion of the unemployed could be short-term — perhaps less than four weeks in duration . |
| 11 | This leads us to the most widely adopted material for kite sails , Ripstop Nylon |
| 12 | Alternatively , it may be a prerequisite for the evolutionary development of intelligence — which leads us to the premonition that , in a few billion years time , there may be intelligent lugworms stalking the Earth . |
| 13 | This point leads us to the concept of meaning . |
| 14 | This leads us to the disturbing conclusion that there is a degree of subjectivity in identifying a stretch of language as discourse — it may be meaningful and thus communicate to one person in a way which another person does not have the necessary knowledge to make sense of — yet in practice we find that discourse is usually perceived as such by groups , rather than individuals . |
| 15 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 16 | The advice we have received leads us to the conclusion that we should ask the Court of Appeal to rule on this important point of principle involved in this case . ’ |
| 17 | Taking these two points into consideration leads us to the conclusion that meaningful chain dimensions can only be values averaged over the many conformations assumed . |
| 18 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
| 19 | In other words , our microeconomic analysis of a single profit-maximising firm leads us to the conclusion that aggregate investment is inversely related to the rate of interest . |
| 20 | Erm , right that gets us to the er performance analysis , and er graphs . |
| 21 | That I think gets us to the erm paper which I put down this morning , erm based upon erm primarily based upon that last erm graph , an and Graham 's best estimate of our likely out turn for this year , because they erm , in fact you 're , erm you 're reckoning that the erm , the number of complaints we receive by the thirty first of March next year , it 'll be four two fo four two , is your best seasonally adjusted guess . |
| 22 | The assumption that all groups in the ‘ not-men ’ class are identical with each other is so firmly rooted that , as we shall see in the fourth section , it is readily assumed even by modern libertarian thinkers that showing that , for example , some ground for distinguishing between men and women is false or irrelevant , immediately commits us to the view that the same ground is irrelevant in distinguishing men from children . |
| 23 | The start of our second week takes us to the Nappa Valley and the heart of California 's cheese and wine country . |
| 24 | To use the landscape itself as the stage or background for artistic expression takes us to the very boundaries of art until , as we step across , we realize that the whole of life is , or could be , Art . |
| 25 | In fact Polanski , unconventional at the best of times , takes us to the limit — and beyond . |
| 26 | In spite of its loose thinking Lorentz 's argument really takes us to the nub of the whole Hollywood system . |
| 27 | A third example , revealing yet another kind of subordination , takes us to the University of Paris where two fourteenth-century scholars , Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme , considered the possibility that the earth may rotate on its axis . |
| 28 | The laibon takes us to the spot beneath the escarpment , looking down through two rock walls onto the plain , where Claudia built her little house . |
| 29 | The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe . |
| 30 | And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist . |