Example sentences of "[verb] us to [pos pn] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A director is only ‘ God 's usher ’ to lead us to our real Director . |
| 2 | We 've been looking for McCloy to lead us to his hired assassin . |
| 3 | He re-introduces us to his perfect plan and purpose for us . |
| 4 | God introduces us to our true selves , so that we come to recognize ourselves , and our God for the first time . |
| 5 | Like many players of that era , Jack 's footballing career was badly restricted by the war , but he was available to help us to our regional championship of the 3rd Division South in the first half of 1945–46 while , upon the resumption of League Football in 1946–47 , he shone as a half-back of real quality in a none too great Palace team and his performances quickly drew attention from several 1st Division sides . |
| 6 | They tried to give us to our ancient enemies in 1912 , 1974 , 1985 and now we 've had the ‘ Brooke initiative ’ which was another attempt by Westminster to be rid of us . |
| 7 | A trio of rickety buses takes us to our floating hotel , the Hatshepsut . |
| 8 | Our students refer us to our own teachings : ‘ Good communication ’ , they say , ‘ is of the essence ’ . |
| 9 | It can lead us to our own down fall . |
| 10 | She took us to our first activity which was to learn the Pax Lodge song . |
| 11 | , my new work colleague , took us to our new home where he and his wife had organised the house and furniture for us — all we had to do was unpack the 20 crates of personal belongings ! |
| 12 | It is the subtlety of this insidious process which blinds us to its true power — which is the power of advertising , of education , of good or bad parenting . |
| 13 | He led us into the house and introduced us to his two nieces , Nosheen and Simeen . |
| 14 | Eventually , the young officer weighed up the pros and contras and made the correct decision , for him and for yours truly , by delivering us to our front door . |
| 15 | I am afraid of many things ; that we will run out of petrol , that we will get lost amidst the velvety nowhere , that my slug of an engine will give way at last and abandon us to our own feebleness . |
| 16 | We set off over an hour late due to a problem with the truck which was supposed to take us to our setting-off point . |
| 17 | Time to wade through the shite and allow Mike Patton to take us to his demented world — a warming thought indeed . |
| 18 | Richard said : ‘ The fierce weather we encountered on the third leg has tested us to our very limits . |
| 19 | Benjamin , his favourite nephew , was an exception and on the evening following our arrival Wolsey summoned us to his private apartments . |
| 20 | The Evil One may not have come between us and God on a personal level , but as an army he has scattered us all over the place , dumped us unceremoniously in our little religious ghettoes and subcultures , and left us to our own devices . |
| 21 | This manuscript , it emerges , has been placed in the hands of a Californian academic , Jonathan Pons , by the ‘ master of Latin American realism ’ , Valentin Sadaba , whose dismissal of it as possibly ‘ one more sad attempt by an Englishman to emulate the Latin storytellers ’ alerts us to its dubious status and authorship . |
| 22 | First important question : how many of the young people contrive to alert us to their cultural soundness by working ‘ motherf—er ’ into their interpretations ? |
| 23 | Marco Polo tells his tales in a Genoan prison cell , and a scribe called Rustichello writes some of them down , alters and embellishes others , or treats us to his own tourism of the spirit . |
| 24 | ‘ Which brings us to my real point , ’ Clinton answered . |
| 25 | We can therefore anticipate — and this brings us to our second theme — that the answers we seek actually lie elsewhere than in a simple equation between creative and mad thought . |
| 26 | This brings us to our final issue : who should carry out curriculum review ? |
| 27 | This brings us to our third ‘ ingredient ’ . |
| 28 | This brings us to our third point , that of geographical mobility as it affects different social groups . |
| 29 | This brings us to our last category , the encyclopedias . |
| 30 | All of which brings us to his latest film , Breaking In , the first he has made entirely in the USA . |