Example sentences of "take us to [art] [noun] " in BNC.

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1 We are met by one of the directors of the firm who takes us to a showroom for coffee .
2 The start of our second week takes us to the Nappa Valley and the heart of California 's cheese and wine country .
3 A third example , revealing yet another kind of subordination , takes us to the University of Paris where two fourteenth-century scholars , Jean Buridan and Nicole Oresme , considered the possibility that the earth may rotate on its axis .
4 The universe , in fact , is expanding ( although that 's another talk really ) and for the present purpose the important thing is that they 're moving away at a speed which increases with their distance and so if we can measure the speed that they 're moving away from us , then we can find their distance , and that takes us to the edge of the universe .
5 And that takes us to the question of what it is that might be going on behind the screen — a question which leads not only forward and to Ulysses and beyond , but backwards , into a reconsideration of Dubliners and The Portrait of the Artist .
6 The laibon takes us to the spot beneath the escarpment , looking down through two rock walls onto the plain , where Claudia built her little house .
7 In spite of its loose thinking Lorentz 's argument really takes us to the nub of the whole Hollywood system .
8 In fact Polanski , unconventional at the best of times , takes us to the limit — and beyond .
9 But there is reason to think that our senses do not take us to the heart of things .
10 ‘ That will take us to the cities where we can buy more .
11 ‘ You can take us to the graves , Sir James ? ’
12 Not only does he take us to the site but he drives straight through the crowd , lights blazing , to the backstage area .
13 I tell you another year of feasibility studies will take us to the point of no return .
14 I have a boat ready and it will take us to the Delta .
15 ‘ After the coronation they 'll take us to the palace for the night .
16 For Peirce , statistical sampling is the fundamental kind of ampliative inference , and for this he derives its ‘ validity ’ from his understanding of reality — its repeated use will take us to the truth in the long run .
17 Peirce could probably allow the same : his position rests upon the belief that there is a logical guarantee that induction will take us to the truth in the long run , but that our confidence in the short-run efficacy of the method is simply an ‘ acritical ’ commonsense certainty which may be susceptible to scientific explanation .
18 The driver would take us to the police .
19 An American controller on duty when we requested permission to land later took us to a hotel at 10 pm .
20 One of the Ness men was acting as guide and he took us to a rock bothy which the men use during their stay .
21 We arranged to meet outside his local church , and first of all he took us to a garage where he negotiated a good price for a new car battery !
22 God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris .
23 After an hour at Customs , a military officer took us to a restaurant and then to the barracks to sleep .
24 And that er church school took us to the standard , at that time , called standard one , which was in a big school , about half a mile away and was built by the Nottingham Education Committee and was one of say , six or eight in the Nottingham area , I suppose .
25 Barney took us to the airport , and when we arrived next day in Hong Kong , it was warm and sunny .
26 They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow .
27 Then he took us to the university where a friend of his , an Englishman , was studying the local bird life .
28 and took us to the dancing horses and then
29 Er they actually took us to the petrol station to get more fuel and after a er five course lunch with the local farmer and his family er which was all very nice and er not too much wine of course as you can well appreciate erm we telephoned the gendarmerie and they came along and er closed the main road for er approximately twenty minutes and we took off on a road .
30 He took us to the Þingvellir National park where the clouds parted and the sun shone on square kilometres of snow that was so clean and pure it made me weep for all the time we had lost on the trip , and for the pleasure of being where I wanted to be .
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