Example sentences of "[noun] [vb -s] us to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | This concept of the division of our mental attributes into two quite separate aspects brings us to the frontiers of the fourth plane of our being , the spiritual level or plane . |
| 2 | The Ego is our internal saboteur , our own worst enemy , which con fines us to the dark cellars of our mind . |
| 3 | When Mrs Gaskell introduces us to the Bartons ' lodging , we supposedly see it through the eyes of Mrs Barton . |
| 4 | Analysis of the returns leads us to the following conclusions : |
| 5 | This description introduces us to the tramp and gives us a rough picture of him . |
| 6 | This point leads us to the concept of meaning . |
| 7 | The application to the wider community brings us to the purpose of our gathering in this place dedicated to unity . |
| 8 | In turn , Jesus points us to the mystery of the Trinity , where each divine person is mutually self-giving , depending on each other and yet holding their distinct identity . |
| 9 | As we 're leaving for our long drive home , Ali walks us to the car and closes our doors . |
| 10 | The start of our second week takes us to the Nappa Valley and the heart of California 's cheese and wine country . |
| 11 | Boswell brings us to the very bones — literally — of their excursion to the churchyard behind the stable-block . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mention of the Ryder Cup brings us to the highlight of Torrance 's career thus far . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 26 | History orients us to the present . |
| 27 | Occasionally an English translation is given , as of " A Fair Day " and in Thomas Pattison 's " The Gaelic Bards , " published in 1864 , we find — " But hark , a note of music touched mine ear , Come , we will trace it up this flight of steps , Built to an outer wall with clumsy flags , Whose rough ascent conducts us to the door now open wide , inviting customers . |
| 28 | Occasionally an English translation is given , as of " A Fair Day " and in Thomas Pattison 's " The Gaelic Bards , " published in 1864 , we find — " But hark , a note of music touched mine ear , Come , we will trace it up this flight of steps , Built to an outer wall with clumsy flags , Whose rough ascent conducts us to the door now open wide , inviting customers . |
| 29 | No one , in this cast of hundreds , has just a walk-on part : a role in just one Goldwyn film entitles us to the full biography of Frances Farmer , from winning a teenage essay competition to her eventual confinement in an asylum . |