Example sentences of "[noun sg] [verb] us to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A mile 's drive south in the car took us to all that remains of Clare 's beloved heath land . |
| 2 | This figure of the diaspora returns us to one of the most important aspects of Levinas ' formulation of the relation of the ethical to the political , that is the connections which he makes between the structure of ontology and Eurocentrism , the latter ‘ disqualified ’ , as he puts it , ‘ by so many horrors ’ . |
| 3 | The task Gomez envisages for the black lesbian returns us to radical humanism , and both Fanon and Gide as important points of reference . |
| 4 | Our admission charge rations us to one programme . |
| 5 | ‘ Our tail-enders did a good job to get us to 394 . |
| 6 | I told the spaceship to take us to New Earth , the planet of the Star Council . |
| 7 | Above a miniature bergschrund , a slabby groove sporting a teasing overlap led us to another intriguingly smooth corner . |
| 8 | Curiously , this futuristic notion returns us to one of the earliest electronic book models which we described in the original report . |
| 9 | With another black look , the man led us to that door over there . |
| 10 | Rather I cite it here as a historical antecedent whose very strangeness alerts us to several facts relevant to what follows : first , and most obviously , that sexual difference is not a biological given so much as a complex ideological history ; second , that current theories of sexual difference are of relatively recent origin , and quite probably still haunted by older views , including this one ; third , it suggests that ‘ before ’ sexual difference the woman was once ( and may still be ) feared in a way in which the homosexual now is — feared , that is , not so much , or only , because of a radical otherness , as because of an interior resemblance presupposing a certain proximity ; the woman then , as the homosexual in modern psychoanalytic discourse , is marked in terms of lesser or retarded development . |
| 11 | This talk/slide show took us to many of the stations forming part of the former Cambrian system . |
| 12 | The sheer abundance of the commercial use of Bruce Weber 's imagery brings us to another feature of the selection here . |
| 13 | And Monday 's sports spot takes us to another look at the main news stories . |