Example sentences of "[be] take us [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Employing one of those supremely disingenuous somersaults of logic that only long training in double-speak and the official brand of British arrogance can confer , Mr Howard told a Westminster audience of backbenchers that ‘ If the Commission were to take us to the European Court I can think of few things more calculated to bring the Commission into disrepute ’ |
| 2 | This is taking us from the mundane and the ugly and helping us to see something of the reality of the splendour of God in our lives , particularly when we worship Him . |
| 3 | ‘ Mr Foggerty 's taking us to the baths after school , he said . ’ |
| 4 | He 's taking us from the airport to what is locally down as the Darth Vader Hotel . |
| 5 | Rulfo 's oral style — which manifests itself in this novel and in the stories of The Burning Plain , in the frequent repetition of words and phrases , in a manner typical of the backtracking of oral narrative — is , of course , much more than a formal device , for its function is to take us inside the world of a rural peasantry whose cultural tradition is non-literate . |
| 6 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |