Example sentences of "[noun sg] [vb -s] we [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When our unforgiveness cuts us off from our brother we are automatically cut off from God . |
| 2 | But the plot takes us back to Paris and its police for the denouement of the story , and it is there that the real and menacing power is seen to reside . |
| 3 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 4 | The second , perhaps more important , issue takes us back to points discussed in chapters 1 and 2 , and it is relevant to the work reported in chapter . |
| 5 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 6 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 7 | Our adversary lets us out from time to time , to visit other houses , but we rarely enter with power and authority into the heart of the city . |
| 8 | The importance of withdrawal brings us back to the issue of women 's sexual dependency and the fact that some degree of male cooperation was necessary , if only a willingness to be pushed out of the way . |
| 9 | This point leads us on to an examination of the selective nature of law enforcement . |
| 10 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 11 | Discovering the way of course takes us back to your recalcitrant dealers . |
| 12 | Until then , the platform holds us out against the townscape |
| 13 | This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day . |
| 14 | No one could see Old Town Street , at Plymouth , without beginning at once to speculate about the significance of a name like this : and in fact the name takes us back to the very beginnings , to the poverty-stricken little Saxon village of farmers and fishermen , well down behind the Hoe , out of which this great naval city has grown . |
| 15 | Oh , the violet , leviathan heartblood , the twinkling amethyst draws us back to scarlet . |
| 16 | You will see from the lists above that modem education brings us up from early childhood to use our left brains in preference to our right brains . |
| 17 | Talk of things that may or may not be art brings us on to the ever-popular topic , sex . |
| 18 | This consideration leads us on to the third major argument supporting secularism , that based on a lively concern for justice , peace , goodwill and genuine respect for people . |
| 19 | Let's move on before some young copper picks us up for soliciting . |
| 20 | ‘ You mean in case Blenkinsop 's successor puts us back on short rations ? |
| 21 | ‘ With any data at their disposal ’ — the terminology puts us back into Louis Agassiz' laboratory . |
| 22 | This suggestion leads us on to the subject of the next chapter : the issue of how one uses authority . |
| 23 | This scale of increasing effort brings us back to the optimisation mechanism of Eikmeyer 's network of co-operation . |
| 24 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 25 | And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text . |
| 26 | The verve of the nursery rhyme spins us round in a sinister way , since it is disturbing to see the familiar ‘ mulberry bush ’ of the children 's rhyme replaced with the arid ‘ prickly pear ’ , making the rhyme like some distorted survival of a primitive chant . |
| 27 | The cycle of death leads us on towards the urban landscape that follows . |
| 28 | In a haunting , slow-motion procession , with the nine-strong cast changing into costumes of mourning as they march , the production takes us back to Leontes 's tragic court . |
| 29 | 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 . |