Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | A strike would plunge us deep into the red . |
| 2 | Exploring ideas of motherhood can plunge us right into the heart of mystical philosophy as well as into the practical world of child rearing . |
| 3 | Eliot 's ‘ word , / Swaddled ’ , with its suggestion of Christ 's ‘ swaddling clothes ’ ( Luke 2 : 12 ) places us firmly within the area of fertility and birth , but Christ in ‘ Gerontion ’ comes not as baby but as frightening beast , associated , like totemic animals , with fertility . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | My right hon. Friend has shown the utmost skill and stamina over the past two days in keeping us away from the dangerous path towards the centralised Europe that none of us who are good Europeans want to see . |
| 6 | These muscles have the function of keeping us upright against the ever-present force of gravity ; they have the advantage of never tiring as they need to work for long periods at a time . |
| 7 | Love is a strange force like gravity that holds us together in the transcendent and will suffer no parting . |
| 8 | The larger Diocesan pilgrimage joins us later in the week . |
| 9 | We , we , we were playing in the er Alton league at one time , you know , we were doing quite well in that as well we got , one year we come second we got promoted to the first division after our first year , there was only three of their , there were four or five leagues going and they put us straight in the second division and er , but you were going all over the bloody place , you were going as far a field as Petersfield bloody old there was almost , there was one erm , just outside |
| 10 | This , of course , will not bring us anywhere near the origin of the change . |
| 11 | Do n't forget that it gives us another chance to make progress in Europe this season ; success for Linfield and of course Crusaders may yet lift us away from the bottom of the ladder and give us a chance of avoiding those detested preliminary rounds . |
| 12 | With little choice they drove us sullenly to the hotel . |
| 13 | Even the endlessly patient bicycle rickshaw drivers muttered curses under their breath as they drove us uphill through the narrowing funnel of tightly-packed houses . |
| 14 | When we are insecure about our personal power , ill at ease with our individuality and allowing others to define us much of the time , we may rely heavily on other sources of power . |
| 15 | It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity . |
| 16 | Instead he told us sombrely of the deprivations of St Antony . |
| 17 | An ‘ assiette de fromage ’ and classic Chateau Palmer 1978 lifted us gently towards the dessert . |
| 18 | We did laugh so much during those months — you must have seen us sometimes at the cafe . |
| 19 | With the addition of our new process area we now have a plant which will see us well into the next decade . |
| 20 | There were tears in the eyes of the farmer as he shook us warmly by the hand . |
| 21 | I was n't afraid of Elizabeth but I was frightened of her mother and I was glad the nuns were leading us away from the road where she lived . |
| 22 | It looked as though the Americans were going to sweep us aside in the early part of the afternoon at one point we had lost the match and were down in eight and up in only one . |
| 23 | This leads us directly onto the argument based on the manifesto . |
| 24 | This view is pervasive amongst ordinary members of the RUC and leads us directly to the issue of how Northern Ireland 's divisions affect policemen and women , which the following chapters begin to address . |
| 25 | Such criticism leads us directly to the higher plains of aestheticism from where it becomes possible to adopt a universal outlook , a point of view based on the sort of timeless values that enable one to study objectively ( unsentimentally , unemotionally and ‘ without rancour ’ ) the lower depths of social reality . |
| 26 | This leads us directly to the topic of symbols and their meanings . |
| 27 | This last point leads us directly to the question of the problematic ending to the story . |
| 28 | I 'm sorry for the five minute delay most of you , I had to seek out about a administrative matter , an administrative matter , nothing to do with the evidence or the place for Mr you had told us earlier in the week about several situations , as the management company . |
| 29 | This uniform of dark serge symbolized our insider status and separated us completely from the ‘ civvies ’ out there in the rest of the world . |
| 30 | That actually benefits us here by the way . |