Example sentences of "have [verb] us into " in BNC.
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| 1 | Other radicals demanded that foreign policy should no longer be at the mercy of " the ideas , valuations and methods of a sporting aristo-plutocracy " or " the obscure convolutions of diplomatic staffs " , that " there must be an end of the secret diplomacy which has plunged us into this catastrophe " and that the working classes should " lay down our own terms , make our own proclamations , establish our own diplomacy " . |
| 2 | They have whetted a lust for sensationalism that has turned us into a nation of accident watchers . |
| 3 | ‘ It tells us just how big a mess the Government has got us into : a £50 billion deficit and very little sign of the promised post-election recovery . ’ |
| 4 | It is n't that God has hoodwinked us into believing , as if rationality were the bait and mystery the hook . |
| 5 | Mr Brown 's trip to Harlem has brought us into an urban landscape known to tabloid headline writers as Beirut-on-Hudson , an advance on their earlier versions of , first , Naples-on-Hudson , and then Calcutta-on-Hudson . |
| 6 | 1:3 , 23 ) has brought us into God 's new creation ( 2 Cor. |
| 7 | The one that for the past five years has brought us into crisis , anarchy , and economic decay ? " |
| 8 | Has split us into two . |
| 9 | This discussion has led us into the third and perhaps most important question : since the assumptions will generally be untrue , how robust are the results to minor modifications of the assumptions of the model ? |
| 10 | The bulk of this chapter has been taken up with a discussion of the relationship between the undergraduate curriculum and just two of Lawton 's eight ‘ cultural sub-systems ’ — the social and the economic although the latter has led us into areas which are a long way from the purely economic , and seems to yield a useful typology of undergraduate courses . |
| 11 | Addressing a rally on March 9 organized by the Democratic Russia group , Yeltsin called on his fellow radicals to " declare war on the leadership of the country , which has led us into a quagmire " . |
| 12 | That ability has led us into the more specialized areas and it has demonstrated that success was not just getting through the traumas of the 70s and taking costs out of the business , but in finding different directions in which to take the business . ’ |
| 13 | We believe this policy has taken us into ventures which stray from the Corporation 's core activities [ and ] endanger its image . ’ |
| 14 | To see Di Stefano , Puskas and Gento caress and flick the ball , to see their back-heel passes and drag-backs and overhead kicks , was to realise that our school-yard coaches had it wrong when they 'd hectored us into a kick-and-run , ‘ fixed bayonets ’ type of football . |
| 15 | It could have turned us into a cinder . |
| 16 | So what can he do — having got us into this mess — for the good of OUR people ? |
| 17 | In this passivity , the infancy of stratigraphy may have brainwashed us into thinking that this is the true nature of the stratigraphical record . |
| 18 | You probably would n't even recognise a moment like that today if it happened , now they 've turned us into football TV junkies with all this coverage . ’ |
| 19 | Could anything be serious that had at its centre this lovable , rogueish , bumbling figure ( ’ That 's another fine mess you 've got us into , Ollie ’ ) ? |
| 20 | This is a very serious situation you 've got us into . |
| 21 | Although such answers may not seem entirely convincing today , principally because of the insights which Darwin and Freud have given us into ourselves , it is nevertheless true that an approach to the problem based on evolution and psychoanalysis would yield analogous , if different , answers . |
| 22 | Twice in the last half century they have plunged us into British wars and twice have they taken our finest youth from under our beds and from behind our hams . |
| 23 | ‘ I know the civil liberties people will not like it , but to some degree they have got us into this mess and we have been listening to them for too long , ’ said Mr Gallie . |
| 24 | With the same idea as in Venezia Giulia — that possession is nine tenths of the law — they have raced us into Austria . |
| 25 | Since then it 's put us into a special class of people |