Example sentences of "they [verb] us to " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Now that we have killed off Rex and Woodbum , we seem to have killed off our chances of having them lead us to the Presley hoard . ’ |
| 2 | The only thing that stopped them cutting us to ribbons was that one of my friends had the gift of the gab and gradually defused the situation by talking good sense in a calm reasonable way ; finally he pointed out that we would all end up in the local police cells if anything happened anyway . |
| 3 | Let them lead us to it . |
| 4 | The brakes can be used fiercely to minimise the roll , but we let aerodynamic drag do most of the work , leaving them to slow us to taxi speed and steer onto the taxiway ( still ineffectually prodding the rudder pedals ) . |
| 5 | Now those were the issues that were leading us sir had left us to make an objection to this structure plan that we thought erm the detailed papers on it were sent to the county in our in our objections , they led us to by a series of calculations to come to the view that around about a hundred hectares would be more appropriate for Harrogate , this is in addition to its Greater York supplement , erm than what is now settled upon which is sixty hectares . |
| 6 | Well we had a r a sch classroom in the infants school there for our headquarters and er storing cos we used to make use , we had a palliasse on the floor for when we was on night duty erm but I can never understand why we had our he headquarters over there but we had to do guard duties over in the elementary school on th school on the other side because that was the only one that had got a telephone and we had to man the telephones from the Brigade Headquarters or the to be able to phone to should they want us to be called out and so we had to do the guard duty over there but we slept in the , when we was off duty we was in er Alma Green School and that was there and then the we moved from there eventually and th th the longest part of our life of the Home Guard , the headquarters was at the cottage , I 've been trying to think what the name of the cottage is , it ha it , it has a name it 's the cottage next door to the Sir Robert Peel public house in Bell Lane . |
| 7 | From this , we will not be excluded , but will in turn exclude them , including some of those who might find themselves in the terrain of our state because their being on our state threatens the unity of our state , just as they perceive us to be a threat to their unity , and so on and so on . |
| 8 | They want us to be ourselves and they themselves and to meet as friends … only after some quiet times with a dolphin do we enjoy letting it be in charge of the encounter , and see what it may decide to do next with us . ' |
| 9 | ‘ That 's what they want us to be . |
| 10 | 4 One problem with many passages in Eliot 's plays is that they send us to similar but stronger passages in the poetry . |
| 11 | They persecute us , they crowd us out , they send us to Coventry , they sneer at us , they yawn at us , they blindfold themselves and stuff up their ears . |
| 12 | Denis and Astrid met us at Boston airport , waving large federal flags and they transported us to Astrid 's parents ' home in Becket , Massachusetts . |
| 13 | Anyway … they told us to hand in all our Arctic kit , fur parkas , white camouflage , etc . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 15 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 16 | Anyone who saw us , even if they loathed us to death , they 'd have to take notice . |
| 17 | They allowed us to ‘ backup ’ material written on the computer 's in-built word-processing package . |
| 18 | How are you going to find the right frequency before they blow us to pieces ? ’ |
| 19 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 20 | Rather they alert us to just how powerful female potency really is in our collective psyches , despite , and even because of , its long repression . |
| 21 | " They get us to bed , " said the knitter . |
| 22 | That was for the older girls , and they frightened us to death with tales of what this Fanny-Annie , as they said called her , had er had said to them , and how rude she was , terrible . |
| 23 | Then they called us to our marks . |
| 24 | I , we 're not , I do n't know whether you 've got , we could say we were activists , we do n't , I do n't even know who goes on a march or anything , but we do do our best for anything we support and get signatures for anything they ask us to . |
| 25 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 26 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 27 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 28 | They took us to the cleaners . |
| 29 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 30 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |