Example sentences of "[vb base] us [adv] to the " in BNC.
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| 1 | His special gift was to get us on the move , send us out to the butcher to buy that good piece of veal , into the kitchen to discover how delicate is the combination of veal , carrots , little onions , a scrap of bacon , seasonings and butter all so slowly and carefully amalgamated — and all done with butter and water alone . |
| 2 | They eventually got the message after about 30 minutes that we were not prepared to bribe them with anything and let us through to the Romanian side . |
| 3 | Now what I want to do in this lecture is to finish off the er introductory part of my , of my remarks and take us up to the point where beginning at twelve o'clock the real part , the real er core of this course begins when we start to look at social theory . |
| 4 | The italicised words take us back to the ‘ Polo Syndrome ’ , and remind us that the fundamental difficulty of all curriculum planning — how to get a quart into a pint pot — still remains to be addressed . |
| 5 | Our collections of still photographs take us back to the Crimean War , but for this century we have millions of feet of movie record , much of it unexplored . |
| 6 | They are only two types of doubt among many others , but they introduce us directly to the heart of our problem . |
| 7 | ‘ Bring us in to the boat , ’ said Mahmoud . |