Example sentences of "[verb] us back to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first source takes us back to ancient Egypt where the sacred cat was thought to bestow many blessings on the household that looked after it . |
| 2 | But I must say through help of the national agreement and that takes us back to nineteen forty seven . |
| 3 | It really takes us back to this question of managing information and of organising to do this . |
| 4 | As ‘ literary allusions ’ the Shakespearian references point us back to previous dramatic interpretations of events rather than directly to ‘ real events ’ . |
| 5 | This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy . |
| 6 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 7 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 8 | He predicted the economy will start to grow again next year by one per cent , after contracting by one per cent this year — bringing us back to 1991 levels by 1993 . |
| 9 | ‘ Which brings us back to that window . |
| 10 | This brings us back to some of the points raised at the beginning of this book . |