Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] us to the " in BNC.
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| 31 | Two hours ' climbing brought us to the narrow ledge from which one entered Antony 's cave through a cleft in the cliff-face . |
| 32 | Boswell brings us to the very bones — literally — of their excursion to the churchyard behind the stable-block . |
| 33 | Anyway , we both played like a couple of 25-year-olds ( each ? ) ; seven hard adrenalin-pumping games got us to the final . |
| 34 | An unusual call led us to the reeds by the lake , and it turned out to be an ortolan bunting , quite distinctive with its buff chest and olive-green head . |
| 35 | 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 . |
| 36 | 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 . |
| 37 | 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 . |
| 38 | ‘ Oh , we 've had such a marvellous day , Uncle Albert took us to the Marine Museum and then we went on to collect sea-shells ourselves , he knew where to go for them , we found hundreds ; and we had a lobster picnic . |
| 39 | On the following morning Miss Stapleton took us to the path through the marsh . |
| 40 | After two or three days of exploring Stanley and its environs it was time to go to ‘ camp ’ ( from a Spanish word ‘ campos ’ meaning countryside ) and our tour of the islands took us to the three or four places equipped to deal with small parties of visitors . |
| 41 | But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses . |
| 42 | 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 . |
| 43 | 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 . |
| 44 | The weakness of glass fibres brings us to the question of Griffith cracks and it also brings us back to Professor Inglis , whom we left in Chapter 2 worrying about why ships broke in two at sea when simple calculation showed them to be amply strong enough . |
| 45 | Which in turn brings us to the most remarkable fact of all , namely that so far from corroborating the police 's recent claims , the witnesses they located and interviewed at the time signally failed to mention any suspicious behaviour whatsoever . |
| 46 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 47 | 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 . |
| 48 | 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 . |
| 49 | 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 . |
| 50 | ‘ I do n't know why we keep coming here , ’ says an older clown on the bus shuttling us to the big top , ‘ all it does is rain on us and blow us about . ’ |
| 51 | After a simply splendid lunch , Bari Logan introduced us to the art of long term preservation from the medical school anatomist 's point of view . |
| 52 | 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 . |
| 53 | Another half-hour 's walk brings us to the site of a village which has disappeared altogether — the deserted village of Holyoak , now remembered by the solitary farmstead of Holyoaks Lodge . |
| 54 | Mention of the Ryder Cup brings us to the highlight of Torrance 's career thus far . |
| 55 | This brief discussion of the differential positioning of Black women as spectators returns us to the Channel 4 debate which I mentioned in my introduction . |
| 56 | Onions are the link to take us to the nearby open market where we see these and other vegetables on display . |
| 57 | My mum and dad drove us to the airport in the torrential rain and wind . |
| 58 | 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 . |
| 59 | Laocoon suffers ; but he suffers like Sophocles ' Philoctetes ; his misery pierces us to the soul ; but we should like to be able to bear anguish in the manner of this great man . |
| 60 | History orients us to the present . |