Example sentences of "[verb] us into the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Juan quickly established that Avila was nowhere near the rescue base ( had we followed the consul 's directions we would have ended up three hours away ) and within an hour he was driving us into the heart of the Sierra de Gredos . |
| 2 | Unlike the singer-songwriter creed , attention is always drawn away from the song to the figure of the person working at it : there 's a flagrant exhibitionism that forces us into the role of voyeur . |
| 3 | Donald , one of our neighbours , undertook to initiate us into the art of peat-cutting . |
| 4 | He 'd try to sneak us into the zoo without paying and we 'd get caught and taken down to the Police Station . |
| 5 | Turner 's painting of Hardraw Scar shows a vast rocky amphitheatre with a torrent gushing over the lip of the furthest wall , while leading us into the scene there is a wide , almost treeless valley , with cows grazing on its slopes and a milkmaid perched on a dry-stone wall ill the foreground . |
| 6 | James laughed , ‘ Look at them , Angus , look at the people , they are rampant now , this is better than ‘ Forty-five , nobody is dying , no royal fop is leading us into the bog . |
| 7 | He showed us into the buffet , and waitresses brought vodka and red caviare and stared at us in that curious but not impolite way that so many people do in Russia . |
| 8 | The initial clause , " Happy those early days ! " , plunges us into the middle of a discourse , as much lyric poetry does . |
| 9 | Opposing censorship therefore leads us into the position of defending pornography . |
| 10 | But this leads us into the area of secularisation that has been the most damaging to the Christian church . |
| 11 | Therefore it is suggested that for the husband whose outrage forecloses the possibility of a mere divorce proceeding , a clear case exists for having the courts carve out an exception to the three-year rule so as to allow a suit to be brought for nullity through fraud or mistake.56 To the protesting reader who may feel that this spurious reasoning leads us into the realm of nonsense , the only answer is that it is the purpose of this paper to provoke a re-examination of certain fundamental values and ideas . |
| 12 | Jesus died to redeem us , and adopt us into the Father 's family ; and because we are sons God has sent the Spirit of his Son into our hearts , enabling us to call ‘ Abba , Father ’ ( Gal. 4:5,6 , Eph. 1:5 , Rom. 8:15 ) . |
| 13 | He is the Spirit who adopts us into the family of God alongside Jesus ( Rom. 8:15 , Gal. 4:6 ) . |
| 14 | Of course , how this policy might be arrived at is an issue in its own right and takes us into the field of school-focused inservice work and curriculum development . |
| 15 | An attempt to answer this question takes us into the field of a phenomenological epistemology . |
| 16 | This of course takes us into the domain of attitudes and feelings of the learners , and is an area more influenced by emotion . |
| 17 | This takes us into the realm of language . |
| 18 | ‘ Drive us into the car park . ’ |
| 19 | They kindly squashed up to let us into the shelter , whereupon all conversation ceased . |
| 20 | It 's very friendly And it followed us into the lane several times and then we 'd chase it back |
| 21 | Doone followed us into the kitchen , removed a grey tweed overcoat and sat by the table in his much-lived-in grey suit . |
| 22 | They followed us into the sitting room |
| 23 | He wants to draw us into the vortex of non-personhood that he has become , and the nothingness or non-being that he is becoming . |
| 24 | Jesus ' sufferings draw us into the love of God and show us how much he loved us . |
| 25 | ‘ It has really played us into the game and I think the Prime Minister has made a considerable mistake . |
| 26 | Peter , too , stresses that the Spirit calls us into the experience of suffering which Christ underwent . |
| 27 | Catherine waved us into the hall and we sat in the window seat . |
| 28 | The small accomplice waved us into the lorry . |
| 29 | Only magazines as risky as Mediterraneans can take us into the sort of culture where the same writer can be both Keats and Dylan . |
| 30 | The nurse in charge called us into the office , where a young female duty doctor was waiting . |