Example sentences of "[verb] us to [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving us to the wall |
| 2 | He referred us to a dictum of Simon Brown J. in Reg. v. Chief Rabbi of the United Congregations of Great Britain and the Commonwealth , Ex parte Wachmann [ 1992 ] 1 W.L.R. 1036 , 1040 , which is to the following effect : |
| 3 | On the second er the second point to make is that erm on the county council 's end of this equation , er Mr Potter er referred us to the county 's economic development strategy , I think I 've got that latest edition , where he was erm attempting to tell us that the erm county 's economic strategy is to attract inward investment of a small scale type . |
| 4 | This will alert us to the error in assuming that the sole way of justifying spending money on courses in the Arts must lie in claims about their utility for ends beyond themselves . |
| 5 | Elisabeth Cook 's recent account of the ‘ Querelle des Bouffons ’ shows an extensive political dimension , which should alert us to the nature of associated rhetoric . |
| 6 | ( The very fact that the proposed ‘ Star Wars ’ defensive strategy of the United States involves computerised laser technology should alert us to the fact that such a defence has ominous offensive possibilities . ) |
| 7 | We have been more wary of challenging the transcultural verity of sexual categories , but in reality a minimum awareness of the evidence should alert us to the fact that though various cultures share general sexual forms , this does not mean that their content , inner structures and meanings are identical . |
| 8 | From a pedagogic point of view , the possibility of culture specificity should alert us to the fact that when we teach terms referring to discourse type and use them in discourse processing and production , we should not take for granted that each term has an exact translation equivalent . |
| 9 | This should alert us to the fact that the canons are incomplete records , and that they could even overlook matters of royal concern , like Guntram 's foundation of the monastery of St Marcel . |
| 10 | ‘ They set fire to our sheep and never even invited us to the barbecue . ’ |
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| 12 | ‘ Excuse me , , I said to an elderly gentleman coming towards us , ‘ can you direct us to the Gypsy Queen 's caravan ? ’ |
| 13 | Can you direct us to the table please ? |
| 14 | ‘ We fuel cells have done our best You really put us to the test Exhausted now the charge is done Replace it with another one ’ |
| 15 | They do not repeat : ’ Do not bring us to the test , but save us from the evil one ’ , or , ’ Do not bring us to hard testing . ’ |
| 16 | It is not far away ; an hour 's journey through the Forest would bring us to the shore from which it can be seen . |
| 17 | We tramp across the wet grass and bracken and plunge through the soaking undergrowth with Andy confidently predicting , with all the security of a man who knows his feet are dry and will remain so , that this bushwhacking through chest-deep and sodden vegetation will soon bring us to the crag . |
| 18 | My watch alarm woke us to a finger cold pre-dawn , though I remained only half awake as we trudged through knee-deep snow to the bottom of the Supercouloir , both of us cursing that we had not brought our skis . |
| 19 | Just as surely God desires to lead us to a knowledge of genuine Christian fellowship , so surely must we be overwhelmed by a great general disillusionment with others , with Christians in general , and , if we are fortunate , with ourselves . |
| 20 | ‘ In your labours in the Vestment Guild you are creating things of beauty to lead us to the wonder of God . |
| 21 | To remove charitable status , at a cost of some five million pounds a year to Save The Children Fund , to relegate us to the status of a quango , is absolute rife nonsense . |
| 22 | Little mouse has come to say hello and welcome us to the animal show . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Romans 8:29 tells us that God 's goal in our relationship with him is to conform us to the image of his Son . |
| 25 | But , asks NICK CAIN , can the World Cup organisers allow themselves to let South Africa 's intense love of the sport blind us to the fact that , unless political and economic stability are rapidly established , giving the tournament to a country in turmoil could have massive repercussions . |
| 26 | The reality of points of convergence should not , however , blind us to the fact that there are enormous divisions , not only between religions but within them . |
| 27 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 28 | My mum and dad drove us to the airport in the torrential rain and wind . |
| 29 | But before we could reach the Pacific , a violent storm hit us and drove us to the north-west of Tasmania . |
| 30 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |