Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | With little choice they drove us sullenly to the hotel . |
| 2 | It can be fascinating , but the allure of intellectualism can carry us away to the point of deliberately courting obscurity . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | This leads us directly to the topic of symbols and their meanings . |
| 6 | This last point leads us directly to the question of the problematic ending to the story . |
| 7 | When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation : |
| 8 | In other words , the superposition principle takes us straight to the heart of quantum mechanics ' elusive indeterminacy . |
| 9 | Then we had to ski down to the next lot of lifts which went even higher and when we had mastered that we got on a chairlift which took us right to the top . |
| 10 | Despite the atrocious weather conditions on our journey south , our driver , Paddy , brought us safely to the Shrine in good time for our first Mass in the Chapel of Reconciliation . |
| 11 | They marched us regularly to the top of Castle Hill where we fired off every conceivable type of weapon ; twelve bores , .22 rifles , revolvers , Browning machine guns . |
| 12 | They are only two types of doubt among many others , but they introduce us directly to the heart of our problem . |
| 13 | It drives us home to the God who longs to turn our disasters into triumph . |
| 14 | This places his discourse firmly in the domain of public cultural policy and returns us directly to the concerns of the Newbolt Committee , indeed to one of its major areas of anxiety : " Whether the class.consciousness which has hitherto formed the chief force of [ linguistic ] stability in Great Britain , will continue to influence the masses , has yet to be seen . " |
| 15 | He said : ‘ Every day seems to bring us closer to the collapse of the monarchy . ’ |
| 16 | This brings us finally to the vexed sentence which sounds so anthropocentric : ‘ That end is man . ’ |
| 17 | This brings us again to the vital question of where sediments actually accumulate at the present day . |
| 18 | This brings us closer to the meaning of a genuine collegiality — management is here seen as a holistic process — touching everything and being carried forward by all teachers as of right and duty , not because of a limited hierarchical view of ‘ delegation ’ . |
| 19 | If broadcast worship links us into that universal cycle of prayer and that reality , then it brings us closer to the presence of God . |
| 20 | Gradually , each successive shot brings us closer to the action and eventually to the actions of individuals , allowing us to see their expressions and hear whatever it is they are saying to each other . |
| 21 | This brings us closer to the heart of the problem . |
| 22 | Another feature which brings us closer to the issue of the control of pupils within the unit is the ‘ unit contract ’ . |
| 23 | As I said earlier , that is the thin end of the wedge which brings us closer to the day of ruin . |