Example sentences of "[verb] us back [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Mr Deveraugh , ’ she said , shaping the words with lips flattened by barely suppressed rage , ‘ you will turn this boat around , right now , and head us back in the direction of the rafts . ’ |
| 2 | The only dangerous time we had was on the way back when we were trying to get away from the coast of Iceland and a whole series of fronts were driving us back into the coast . |
| 3 | They put us back into a van and let us out in the street . |
| 4 | The end of Genesis did not bring us back to the beginning , but it surely left us heading in the right direction . |
| 5 | Which must bring us back to the UK , which had dreadful years in 1991 and 1992 and which may not be much better in 1993 . |
| 6 | One suspects that , rather than deconstructing the process of voyeurism — ‘ the gaze ’ — they succeed very much in the way a faded Edwardian photograph succeeds , transporting us back to a specific moment in time , fixed in the honeyed glow of nostalgia ; their presence is reassuring rather than unsettling . |
| 7 | And now it 's all panic again , and it always will be — until we mend our ways and Arnold Bros ( est. 1905 ) graciously allows us back into the Store as better , wiser nomes ! ’ |
| 8 | For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God . |
| 9 | And that , of course , leads us back to the question : ‘ Where are they all ? ’ |
| 10 | With such a wide definition , it might be more useful to consider what this leaves out , rather than what it includes — which gets us back to the categories I am working with here : it excludes inheritance and invention . |
| 11 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 12 | All we need is a victory to put us back on the road . |
| 13 | ‘ It was n't enough to put us back in the World Cup contention . |
| 14 | Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative . |
| 15 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 16 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 17 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 18 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 19 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 20 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 21 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 22 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 23 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 24 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 25 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 26 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 27 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 28 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 29 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 30 | I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division . |