Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] us to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | It is , however , the work of the remaining Russians that intrigues even more and most notably the Surrealist Home and the Sky : the Life of Plants , which is a kind of film-set by the Moscow-born Igor Orlov and the Form and Continuity by Nikolai Ovtchinnikov , who welcomes us to the show and is illustrated on the front page . |
| 32 | And … and she set us to the station , and … and Mama promised to write . ’ |
| 33 | Its plot is a ‘ circle of love ’ , as a succession of couplings begins with a nocturnal encounter between a whore and a soldier , and continues as the soldier has sex with a housemaid , the maid with her young master , the master with a married woman , and so on until we reach a count who returns us to the whore . |
| 34 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 35 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 36 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 37 | They took us to the cleaners . |
| 38 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 39 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 40 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 41 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 42 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 43 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 44 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 45 | Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy . |
| 46 | When we said a rather overwhelmed no thank you , he directed us to the V.I.P.lounge to wait for our flight — cream leather armchairs free tea , coffee or soft drinks , sandwiches , cakes and more free newspapers . |
| 47 | He leads us to the studio , where an interpreter relays another strange question to rapper and part-time Internationalist Wildski . |
| 48 | We left and he followed us to the church door . |
| 49 | Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area . |
| 50 | and she , he pulled us to the erm steps . |
| 51 | He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be . |
| 52 | Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life . |
| 53 | After dinner he took us to the Royal College of Art , where he seemed proud to be an honorary member of the faculty club and students ' union . |
| 54 | He took us to the pictures sometimes and we shared his intimate refuge from Mum . |
| 55 | The next morning he took us to the place where the evil Sir Hugo died . |
| 56 | After the events of chapter 26 he brings us to the time when Isaac is nearing death , and to the point when the blessing of the eldest son must be given . |
| 57 | By the time somebody finds them there 'll be nothing to link us to the killings . ’ |
| 58 | Likewise religion corresponds to Truth ; it is what binds us to the Truth . |