Example sentences of "take us [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He 'd suddenly take us off on crazy weekends . |
| 3 | Heaps of spoil lay between Stags Fell and the road , so we picked our way through them and down by a wall to the road , following a pleasant series of falls through Shaw Gill Wood above Hardraw Force for a while before hitting the road again where a footpath took us down through flower-spattered meadows to Hardraw . |
| 4 | The principles of inference by which we are to move from basic to non-basic beliefs are fallible , in the sense that they take us sometimes from true beliefs to false ones . |
| 5 | Instead , some crumbled , some caused fear and crime and many led to isolation hundreds of feet up above the rest of the town , But back in 1952 something needed to be done to take us out of Victorian and Edwardian accommodation and into the second half of the 20th century . |
| 6 | Either it is an instance of a proof by reductio ad absurdum , in which we assume something true in order to prove it false ; or it is a way of exposing a paradox within the concept of knowledge , for the sceptic can surely insist that if a central concept such as that of knowledge can be used to take us validly from true premises to a false or impossible conclusion , something is wrong with the concept ; there is probably some internal tension which should be exposed rather than swept under the carpet . |