Example sentences of "[verb] us to the [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Nevertheless , the de-Marxisation of their project by him and the ‘ death of the social ’ which he has announced should alert us to the doubts raised by Raymond Williams on the issue of certain types of Utopianism . |
| 2 | This zest should be carried into the transcendent and should bring us to the horizons of mental thought . |
| 3 | When , in the last play of the Henry VI trilogy , the future Richard III is presenting to the audience his capabilities — as if auditioning for the role of hypocrite — he exults at being able to By grouping all those exempla of deceit Shakespeare makes us unconscious of the initial role-playing of the actor involved , alerting us to the deceptions he is about to foist on others . |
| 4 | Their names were Donald , Ian and Hugo , and they told us that they were extremely grateful for all the food but that the last thing they wanted was to put us in any danger : they begged us not to come again because there would almost certainly be someone in the village who would denounce us to the Germans or the Fascists . |
| 5 | We were all absolutely fagged out , and promptly dropped off to sleep at 4 a.m. , only to be caught later by some children who betrayed us to the patrols . |
| 6 | ‘ That will take us to the cities where we can buy more . |
| 7 | ‘ You can take us to the graves , Sir James ? ’ |
| 8 | The driver would take us to the police . |
| 9 | There 's something about this matter which could lead us to the gallows or on to the knife of some hired assassin . |
| 10 | They took us to the cleaners . |
| 11 | He took us to the pictures sometimes and we shared his intimate refuge from Mum . |
| 12 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 13 | This first ‘ phase ’ of the trip took us to the caves of Mulu National Park and Gunung Mulu mountain . |
| 14 | Too close an identification will blind us to the shortcomings of the institutional Church , so that church growth becomes denominational aggrandisement . |
| 15 | Nevertheless , the complexity imparted by the faithful physicalist version should not blind us to the features that distinguish the causal processes in the bees ' brains or whatever from those involved in the swelling after the swipe . |
| 16 | ‘ Mr Foggerty 's taking us to the baths after school , he said . ’ |
| 17 | By the time somebody finds them there 'll be nothing to link us to the killings . ’ |
| 18 | To reintroduce us to the joys of story telling round the log fire , Signals rounded up a slightly disconcerting group of five contemporary writers , all strange to me . |
| 19 | An unusual call led us to the reeds by the lake , and it turned out to be an ortolan bunting , quite distinctive with its buff chest and olive-green head . |
| 20 | What Housman has given us is a poem quite poignantly suggestive of that sense of private and personal loss that runs through so many of his lyrics ; a poem which refers us to the places and voices of The Other Shropshire , where the Graces go , and lads lie untimely in the earth . |
| 21 | This concept of the division of our mental attributes into two quite separate aspects brings us to the frontiers of the fourth plane of our being , the spiritual level or plane . |
| 22 | This brings us to the raiders of 1009 – 12 . |
| 23 | This brings us to the horns of the Elf dilemma . |