Example sentences of "[verb] us [adv prt] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | There were four of us , and our father , who was the Wesleyan Chapel steward , knew that cinema films would overstimulate our brains , give us over to vain imaginings and , worse , tempt us to worship false gods . |
| 2 | The first source takes us back to ancient Egypt where the sacred cat was thought to bestow many blessings on the household that looked after it . |
| 3 | Around that time , we heard about a network , which could link us up to other cocoa workers around the world . |
| 4 | As ‘ literary allusions ’ the Shakespearian references point us back to previous dramatic interpretations of events rather than directly to ‘ real events ’ . |
| 5 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 6 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |