Example sentences of "[verb] us into [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Why does the Lord bring us into this land , to fall by the sword ? ’ |
| 2 | John-Paul Ziller is variously a drugs dealer , magician and con man , personifying — like Rinehart in Ralph Ellison 's Invisible Man — the flux of narrative stances ; Plucky Purcell , as his name suggests , represents the narrator of adventures and Marx Marvellous ( ‘ your host and narrator ’ ) embodies Robbins 's role as narrative compère , constantly leading us into new episodes with an appropriate verbal flourish . |
| 3 | The implementation of policy leads us into many aspects of nature conservation not necessarily just on the Council 's own land but as you work for Fife Regional Council you will understand the ramifications of local authority influence . |
| 4 | So what can he do — having got us into this mess — for the good of OUR people ? |
| 5 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 6 | It is all geared to forcing us into zero sum games . |
| 7 | ‘ He gets us into this mess , then legs it at the first sniff of trouble ! ’ |
| 8 | One could go further and give more weight to differences with lower sampling variability , but that takes us into confirmatory statistics and beyond the scope of this book . |
| 9 | The birds proved to be merely the lure which was to draw us into ten years of adventure through a land of waking dreams . |
| 10 | One of Guinness Brewing Worldwide 's key strengths is the careful selection of such companies , those with excellent potential , which will take us into new markets or geographical areas , or consolidate our presence , and which can be integrated smoothly and add value to existing operations . |
| 11 | WHILE the leaders of all three main political parties seem intent on dragging us into closer union with Europe , there must be millions like me who fought in World War Two to stop Germany dominating the Continent . |
| 12 | The kernel or essence of what has gone before will , if preserved , initiate a new impetus which will lead us into unexplored territory . |
| 13 | Discussion of this would lead us into great complexity and it is appropriate to give a largely phenomenological description . |
| 14 | The representation of the river turns into an important symbol when crossing the river becomes highly significant — perhaps doing so will lead us into open conflict with the Abbey who are demanding an increase in tithes … |
| 15 | Prejudice may lead us into aggressive attitudes towards some person or group . |
| 16 | Anyway , life must go on or the terrorists will terrorise us into changed patterns of living , bastards that they are . |
| 17 | Mr. Andrew Welsh ( Angus , East ) : The Government are taking us into unknown waters with the changes in the legislation . |
| 18 | Meanwhile , the Picasso Trigger needs constant water tests and monitoring , like all marine fish , and should get us into good habits again . |
| 19 | I did n't get us into this mess — ’ She broke off with a guilty look over her shoulder . |
| 20 | A fresh north wind was carrying us into another Nile where the desert pressed close upon the riverbanks . |
| 21 | In the 80s , the banks , with poor management , had conspired with government to get us into this situation . |
| 22 | But Bret did let us into one secret . |
| 23 | We met with the head ski instructor first and he made us all ski down the slope individually so that he could put us into different groups . |
| 24 | As partners at Middlesex we tried to steal Test matches off each other when England were only playing one spinner , and it made us into better bowlers . |
| 25 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 26 | Twice in the last half century they have plunged us into British wars and twice have they taken our finest youth from under our beds and from behind our hams . |
| 27 | Macbeth also judges himself , and his many asides and soliloquies ( structurally as important as in Richard IN , although vastly more compressed ) bring us into close contact with his divided claims of desire and conscience ( ‘ This supernatural soliciting/Cannot be ill ; can not be good ’ ) . |
| 28 | But they got us into this mess , it 's up to them to get us out of it . |
| 29 | ‘ It 's over-consumption that got us into this mess in the first place , ’ says Julia Langer . |
| 30 | ‘ I 'm sorry I ran and got us into this mess . |