Example sentences of "take us [adv prt] to [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day . |
| 2 | The attempt to answer this question leads us into a hitherto little-explored region of English grammar since it poses the problem of the relation between the infinitive and the category of person , and takes us back to a use not yet analysed satisfactorily , the so-called " infinitive of reaction " . |
| 3 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 4 | There is something free , reckless , vaguely counter-cultural about it ; it ignores the voice of prudence and takes us back to the days of our youth when we defied authority by taking it up . |
| 5 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 6 | If we are looking for advice on a particular situation which affects us then impartiality of the second type is particularly important ; for instance , the judge who assesses the relevant facts and selects the relevant moral or legal rules must not be someone who has something to gain or lose by the outcome , although this presupposes the correctness of the rules to be applied and so takes us back to the impartiality normally associated with legislators , which is a matter of their involvement in determining rules which are not only universalisable but are actually to be universalised , at least within a given community , and to their impartiality in the third sense namely the adequacy of the consideration given to the various relevant considerations . |
| 7 | He likes to recall China 's ‘ 5,000 year-old tradition of history ’ ( which takes us back to the mythical Yellow Emperor ) and urges China 's battered intellectuals to revive their patriotic spirit . |
| 8 | As Kee says : ‘ The religion of Constantine takes us back to the context of the Old Testament . |
| 9 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 10 | The second question raised by the dual nature of disciplines — as bodies of knowledge and bodies of people — takes us back to the very distinction between ‘ academic ’ and ‘ professional ’ courses . |
| 11 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | It takes us back to the past , when belief in God was a living thing . ’ |
| 14 | My tale for today takes us back to the origins of the resistance of Marseilles to the seductions of the Celtic mainland . |
| 15 | And that takes us back to the issue of continuity/discontinuity between animality and humanity . |
| 16 | At this point the whole argument not only takes us back to the eighteenth-century speculations about poetry versus reason , but begins to tie in with recent neurological discoveries concerning the workings of the two halves of the human brain which have been derived from experimentally induced conditions of aphasia . |
| 17 | ‘ You 'd better take us up to the refrigerator factory , ’ Gary said . |
| 18 | ’ Start Posi setting a course that will take us on to a parallel Netline , doubling back the way we came . |
| 19 | After we woke , he would take us on to the bigger islands , known as the Big Bush ’ . |
| 20 | These rather gloomy thoughts were in our minds as we arrived , a bit soothed but still edgy , to find that the last ferry over the Rhone from Salin which would take us on to the road to Martigues had left at 11.30 and there would not be another until 2 o'clock . |
| 21 | ‘ Ca n't you take us in to the Bus station ? |
| 22 | Two — ’ a finger joined the thumb ‘ — I know another way through the keep that will take us out to a side-gate which , if we 're lucky , wo n't be guarded … |
| 23 | ‘ Well , Archie has a boat , and he says he can take us out to the bird islands , and I 'm sure we could get him to take you somewhere in the Land-Rover where you can fish . |
| 24 | How often a sudden aroma can take us back to an earlier time in our lives and cause us to feel happy or sad depending on the memories aroused . |
| 25 | A ‘ cross theology ’ , not on its own , let me add , but central to our preaching , will take us back to the central verity of our faith . |
| 26 | Many people will be concerned at my suggestion that drawing should be taught in our schools , perhaps fearing that it will take us back to the kind of dull lesson I have described , with children being taught unimaginative and stereotyped ways of drawing . |
| 27 | That really did take us back to the good old days . |
| 28 | Er we at the County Council think that to delete that Greater York erm dimension would take us back to the realms of uncertainty , past uncertainty , in the Greater York area , we 're therefore proceeding with a Greater York dimension in policy H One at none thousand seven hundred dwellings , which equates to hundred percent migration . |
| 29 | Du n no , I might ask my dad cos he 'll probably take us back to the pub |
| 30 | It was , however , after Palace had acquired Cliff Holton and Dickie Dowsett that we saw Allen at his vintage best , spraying the passes and plying the crosses from which those big fellows scored the goals which first of all kept us in Division Three , and then took us up to the 2nd Division in 1963–64 . |