Example sentences of "us back [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Yeah were right then that might push us back towards the Platonic view , that some people are more .
2 ‘ I know , dear — there is a farm next door to us back on the dear old homestead and Daddy does usually describe himself as a farmer — but I meant that we capitalist parasites would be taking the place of the oxen , not the horny-handed salt-of-the-earth types cracking the whip over them . ’
3 That really did take us back to the good old days .
4 And this of course brings us back to the practical and philosophical implications of the unstable text .
5 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 .
6 The White Paper clearly indicates the government 's intention of shifting the balance of provision away from local authorities , and this brings us back to the mixed economy of welfare or welfare pluralism .
7 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 .
8 All of which brings us back to the 1987 State of World Population Report and its coded messages .
9 Which brings us back to the Southern Effect .
10 In a beautifully simple piece of writing Achebe transports us back to the earliest days of colonialism .
11 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 .
12 Which brings us back to the Communist Party itself .
13 And talking about feet brings us back to the first step .
14 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 .
15 The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century .
16 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 .
17 For a day off from all the electioneering and yet , also for leading us back to the very issues that will be challenging our country thank you God .
18 This brings us back to the expressive order .
19 But this brings us back to the initial problem , which was precisely to explain how materialism could accommodate such a ‘ feel ’ .
20 That brings us back to the domestic market and the attempts just 18 months ago by supermarket buyers to force lamb prices down to new depths and twist sheep farmers ' tails till their eyes popped .
21 It brings us back to the old calculus of human happiness , back to the rationalisations by which different measures and patterns of investment are justified purely in terms of their direct or indirect benefit to ourselves .
22 Which brings us back to the old problem , ’ she finished on a slightly bitter note .
23 This brings us back to the underlying issue in this chapter about welfare and dependency .
24 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 .
25 I really hope they can raise their game and get us back into the Premier Division .
26 Jacob 's demand for a blessing is only what we would expect , and yet it prepares us for the turning point in the story , which follows immediately afterwards , and takes us back into the clearer air of the larger narrative .
27 Yep … thanks Chappie … you helped pull us back into the big time and gave us a lot of enjoyment ( even when you fell over when trying to control the ball : - ) .
28 They took us back into the main passageway , past the hall and into a small chamber where Gavin Douglas , Earl of Angus , whom I had glimpsed during the banquet , now lounged in a chair .
29 That is enough to get us back into the top flight .
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