Example sentences of "us [adv] to [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Glenn takes us on to better things . |
| 2 | Again , as we launch into the second movement andante ( lots of energy , a real spirit of dance in the ostinato is a mite tasteful , discreet rather than craggily elemental ; so , to a point , is the brawny bass line which spurs us on to stratospheric violins and shining trumpets , though true to form Pešek is wonderfully atmospheric , nurturing and distilling the moments of quiet contemplation just prior to the coda . |
| 3 | Well , well that brings us on to those of you who do n't have a license and do n't drive , which is my sums are right something like twenty eight of you . |
| 4 | And that might seem a rather odd way to actually spend some of your redundancy money , but perhaps this leads us on to another area influencing the demand , and that 's to do with , if you like , psychology . |
| 5 | A broad Land-rover track led us down to Hard Level where lived poor Adam Baker who was fined for not burying his daughter in a woollen shroud " according to the law " . |
| 6 | Once we recognize how far classroom competence has its roots in status and recognition , how closely the different elements of teachers ' lives are tied together in a coherent structure of meaning and motivation , then the policy implications lead us not to personality-based initiatives or more careful selection , compulsory redundancy to remove ‘ incompetents ’ from the profession , or redeployment and encouraging early retirement , but to strategies which will improve the levels of reward and recognition in the system in terms of pay , planning time , in-service opportunity and the like , and in terms of positive ( not punitive ) systems of staff support and development . |
| 7 | There were four of us , and our father , who was the Wesleyan Chapel steward , knew that cinema films would overstimulate our brains , give us over to vain imaginings and , worse , tempt us to worship false gods . |
| 8 | It now remained to be seen whether this headman would be able to hand us over to another in Bahdu . |
| 9 | This leads us directly to one of the most wantonly falsified stories in Scottish history . |
| 10 | Around that time , we heard about a network , which could link us up to other cocoa workers around the world . |
| 11 | Just er for clarification that that is indeed the case as Mr Cunnane says , but the erm the village envelopes were brought forward by way of an alteration to the adopted rural areas local plan which will take us up to nineteen ninety six , erm we will possibly have to look and review some of those envelopes in connection with the emerging local plan . |
| 12 | Carrycots are sometimes recommended for us up to nine months . |
| 13 | A refund less one day 's parking rate administration charge will be made in the event of a cancellation if received by us up to 72 hours prior to your departure date . |
| 14 | We had to shift 1,000 lbs between us up to 11,000 feet and over 1,300 miles . ’ |
| 15 | This brings us inevitably to international law : the rules which make agreements between states binding ; the rules which seek to limit from the outside the kinds of actions which states may take in relation to each other and provide a framework within which they may negotiate . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | ‘ Which brings us back to that window . |
| 18 | It would discourage profit and perhaps take us back to that nadir of Labour party policy when Shirley Williams was able to say with some pride that profit levels were the lowest they had been for years . |
| 19 | This can cast us back to that sense of aestheticism and dedication that we saw in the sixth elegy . |
| 20 | He predicted the economy will start to grow again next year by one per cent , after contracting by one per cent this year — bringing us back to 1991 levels by 1993 . |
| 21 | But I must say through help of the national agreement and that takes us back to nineteen forty seven . |
| 22 | It really takes us back to this question of managing information and of organising to do this . |
| 23 | This brings us back to some of the points raised at the beginning of this book . |
| 24 | For the point is this : not that myth refers us back to some original event which has been fancifully transcribed as it passed through the collective memory ; but that it refers us forward to something that will happen , that must happen . |
| 25 | As ‘ literary allusions ’ the Shakespearian references point us back to previous dramatic interpretations of events rather than directly to ‘ real events ’ . |
| 26 | Our journeys , we found , were to take us simultaneously to some of the least-charted regions of the planet and to the least-charted regions of our own minds . |
| 27 | The next day he even drove us out to some local farms in his Land Rover to assess their suitability . |
| 28 | Brought us quicker to this point . ’ |
| 29 | there we go Blondie , Island of Lost Souls , taking us round to eighteen minutes before eight o'clock on a Tuesday night , a Radio Nottingham Sports Special , Notts on the Italia trail tonight . |