Example sentences of "[noun sg] takes we [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the plot takes us back to Paris and its police for the denouement of the story , and it is there that the real and menacing power is seen to reside . |
| 2 | Controversy on this issue takes us back to the beginnings of literary theory : to Aristotle and Plato . |
| 3 | The second , perhaps more important , issue takes us back to points discussed in chapters 1 and 2 , and it is relevant to the work reported in chapter . |
| 4 | That mention of the desert takes us back to the territory traversed in The Waste Land , ‘ The Hollow Men ’ , and Ash-Wednesday . |
| 5 | The answer to this question takes us back to the very origins of the town in the middle years of the twelfth century . |
| 6 | This change takes us back to the UK position some five or so years ago . |
| 7 | Discovering the way of course takes us back to your recalcitrant dealers . |
| 8 | This procedure takes us through to the end of the first day . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | In a haunting , slow-motion procession , with the nine-strong cast changing into costumes of mourning as they march , the production takes us back to Leontes 's tragic court . |
| 11 | 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 . |