Example sentences of "and [det] [vb -s] us [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | 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 . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | And that brings us to the ext example . |
4 | And that brings us to Foodies — which is where the plebs and the klutzes really fall head first into their shortcrust . |
5 | And that brings us to the end of another week on Scotland Today . |
6 | And that brings us to the end of Scotland Today for this evening . |
7 | And that brings us to the end of another hectic half hour . |
8 | And that brings us to the end of another fun half hour — tomorrow Katie Wood will be showing us how the other half relax when she mixes with the toffs on a country house weekend near John O'Groats . |
9 | And that leaves us with the second alternative . |
10 | So that gives us a total expenditure of seven eighty seven sixty two for the year and that leaves us with a balance er of the year and that 's nine ninety eight ninety nine pence . |
11 | If Gazza is back in the Lazio team then he has potentially two more fixtures before England 's game against Norway and that provides us with an opportunity to take a look at him in competitive football , something he has not played in for nearly two years . ’ |
12 | It happens that what we 've done is we 've taken it and hung it on the starlight , the magic of starlight — how wonderful it is , how much you can tell from just looking at a star through a telescope and measuring the light that comes out of it , and this takes us into realms of why a star shines ; what do you mean by time when you go back millions of years into the universe lifetime ; what do you mean , why do stars shine with different colours . |
13 | Returning to the central theme of the present chapter , electrical activity can be correlated with behaviour and this helps us towards an understanding of the neural mechanisms and cognitive processes underlying behaviour . |
14 | Our concern then Mr Mayor is to see social housing used correctly , for those in greatest need and this leads us to the conclusion that means testing is the best way to ensure , is positive discrimination in favour of people in such need . |
15 | Independence of course demands economic means : and this brings us to a last and equally basic issue . |
16 | And this brings us to the end of our clockwise tour of Thrush Green and our brief meetings with the chief inhabitants . |
17 | We can therefore anticipate — and this brings us to our second theme — that the answers we seek actually lie elsewhere than in a simple equation between creative and mad thought . |
18 | Nor was the scene confined to the city : half the picture was outside the wall , a stretch of which was shown near the middle ; and this brings us to the second great change , the opening up of space . |
19 | And this brings us to the next chapter . |
20 | Within our own School two of us are actually senior examiners for one examining board and this brings us into contact with teachers and indeed candidates . |
21 | Finally , and this returns us to Kumar 's statements , it is unlikely that with the elimination of the scarcity of resources — and this made cultural direction incredibly simple — and the internationalization of media productions a nation can ever maintain its defensive walls unbreached . |
22 | But , crucially , and this reminds us of Genet , Bersani locates a challenge inseparable from a certain ambivalence : if gay males threaten male heterosexual identity , it is not because they offer a detached parody of that identity , but rather because ‘ from within their nearly mad identification with it , they never cease to feel the appeal of its being violated ’ ( ‘ Is the Rectum a Grave ? ’ , 208 — 9 , his emphasis ) . |