Example sentences of "[verb] us to a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Ashworth helpfully referred us to a substantial number of United States decisions . |
| 2 | We invited Corpus Christi to tea and they in turn invited us to a sumptuous Sunday brunch in their garden overlooking Christ Church meadow . |
| 3 | Woodger made his Palace debut on 1 November 1905 at Swindon in a United League game , helped us to a 6–1 win and scored two goals . |
| 4 | Studying literature , then , is a serious business ; it is concerned with close examination of those authors who can bring us to a deeper ( and more moral ) understanding of humanity . |
| 5 | Dzo bells lulled us to sleep and then woke us to a clear and sunny morning . |
| 6 | There were no roads direct from the station to where the world began , but the carriage drivers , squatting over their breakfasts , directed us to an abandoned railway line which cut across country . |
| 7 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 8 | So we might in fact simplify this by saying these are the enabling factors if you like , to leave home these are the motivating factors pulling us to a certain destination . |
| 9 | We see then that the idea introduces us to a radical gospel which brings an uncomfortable message to our hearts . |
| 10 | Holland thus leads us to a dynamic and important role of reading : ‘ The psychoanalytic theory of literature holds that the writer expresses and disguises childhood fantasies . |
| 11 | This leads us to a fundamental distinction in the character of critical judgements , a distinction between what I shall call internal and external criteria of judgement . |
| 12 | His devotional works are full of joy ; religion , he said , ‘ leads us to a huge felicity through pleasant ways ’ . |
| 13 | This leads us to a brief discussion of the developments within these fields since the time when the early sociologists were working . |
| 14 | That finding leads us to a shocking conclusion : a gesture is more individual than an individual . |
| 15 | This last point leads us to an important , but frequently misunderstood , concept in the analysis of discourse . |
| 16 | The desire for a hefty structure on a night like this , leads us to an enormous flashy hotel . |
| 17 | Modern conditions have involved us in rivalry of armaments which is now a conscious struggle to achieve by expenditure and science , by diplomacy and alliances , a balance of power which always eludes us , and because it is always variable and unstable condemns us to a bloodless battle , a dry warfare of steel and gold . |
| 18 | And are we to think that this loving God really wants us to linger on in pain and without dignity when , according to the same dogma , He is in any case calling us to a better life ? |
| 19 | Nevertheless it is by no means certain that the use of such predicates necessarily commits us to an anti-monist stance . |
| 20 | Talk of ‘ processes ’ and ‘ states ’ commits us to an inappropriate way of looking at the matter — as though the only difference between understanding understanding and understanding sweating is that in the case of understanding understanding our gaze is directed inwards . |
| 21 | If the medium of issue is magnetic then the indefinite maintenance of bit-perfect records commits us to an active program of periodic renewal and integrity checking , or a one-off transfer to a more permanent medium . |
| 22 | Our second association item takes us to a late autumn in the next reign . |
| 23 | So adding this extra twenty hectares identified within Ryedale , that takes us to a hundred and thirty nine hectares for Greater York . |
| 24 | BILLED as a family show , Dragon : A Fairytale With Claws ( National Theatre , Olivier ) takes us to a far away land where a tyrant demands the annual sacrifice of a young village lass to satisfy his blood lust . |
| 25 | A consideration of two dreams in Shakespeare 's plays takes us to a similar conclusion . |
| 26 | Peter Wood 's brief is to guide us to an acceptable quality management system that genuinely reflects our practices . |
| 27 | An unexpected gap in the mountains beckoned us to a silent lake fed by waterfalls and surrounded by woods with banks of moss , lichens and fungi alive with lemmings scurrying among holes and tree roots . |
| 28 | We have set very clear targets which will return us to a basic level of performance in the next two years . |
| 29 | I assume this can go ahead immediately , without tying us to a detailed course outline . |
| 30 | Our approach has the advantage of not tying us to a particular syntax and semantics for the space of expressions . |