Example sentences of "us to the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But the health and wealth of contemporary society blinds us to the decadence and moral sickness under our noses . |
| 2 | This will alert us to the error in assuming that the sole way of justifying spending money on courses in the Arts must lie in claims about their utility for ends beyond themselves . |
| 3 | Which brings us to the film 's second major warning : Be careful how you chose your friends . |
| 4 | Several transports were sent to convey us to the camp , and they were certainly less basic than the RAF ones we were used to , and when we arrived at the aircraft hangar where the jollifications were being held , it was ablaze with coloured lights and swarming with people , and a seven piece band was being very loud on the platform . |
| 5 | We had been given an army escort and were following an officer who was taking us to the camp . |
| 6 | Rebecca was looking pointedly from one of us to the other like a parody of a spectator watching a tennis rally . |
| 7 | Your request will be passed on by us to the supplier concerned but we do not guarantee that your requirements will be met . |
| 8 | However , the prior hypothesis led us to the finding in the rural high oil worker category ( table II , both for all ages and the 0–4 age group . |
| 9 | We were down to Halflight , sliding through the tangle of the Lagoon Nebula interlink , making our way towards the secondary GalacNet lines that would get us to the sector containing the Ixyphal system . |
| 10 | This brings us to the question central to the understanding of Queen Mary : the nature of Scottish monarchy , and the factors which made the relationship between kings and their subjects successful or unsuccessful . |
| 11 | This brings us to the question of those notoriously stuffy announcers . |
| 12 | This brings us to the question of how we should consider that portion of the surplus-value which is unproductively consumed . |
| 13 | The weakness of glass fibres brings us to the question of Griffith cracks and it also brings us back to Professor Inglis , whom we left in Chapter 2 worrying about why ships broke in two at sea when simple calculation showed them to be amply strong enough . |
| 14 | This brings us to the question of truancy . |
| 15 | This brings us to the question of ‘ competence plus ’ — or merit . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Such childish poeticizing is reinforced , in directing us to the level of the infant , by the ‘ penny for the Old Guy ’ epigraph , by the dressing up as a scarecrow , and by the nursery rhyme , ‘ Twinkle twinkle little star ’ , which inescapably underlies the line ‘ Under the twinkle of a fading star ’ . |
| 18 | ‘ Well , we do open to the public now , as you know , but oh ! the bills , and the staff want paying , ’ she said as she showed us to the door . |
| 19 | Occasionally an English translation is given , as of " A Fair Day " and in Thomas Pattison 's " The Gaelic Bards , " published in 1864 , we find — " But hark , a note of music touched mine ear , Come , we will trace it up this flight of steps , Built to an outer wall with clumsy flags , Whose rough ascent conducts us to the door now open wide , inviting customers . |
| 20 | Occasionally an English translation is given , as of " A Fair Day " and in Thomas Pattison 's " The Gaelic Bards , " published in 1864 , we find — " But hark , a note of music touched mine ear , Come , we will trace it up this flight of steps , Built to an outer wall with clumsy flags , Whose rough ascent conducts us to the door now open wide , inviting customers . |
| 21 | We bowed and left , Catesby showing us to the door . |
| 22 | This interchange brought us to the foot of the bad step beneath Crib Goch summit . |
| 23 | And I like to take quite a chunk of consolation from the fact they did nt beat us to the title … yet we beat them . |
| 24 | The car which we had ordered to take us to the station never appeared , and we travelled instead in a dilapidated tonga . |
| 25 | The car which took us to the station drove as sedately as a Daimler in a royal procession although the people of Amsterdam were on their way to work and provided admirable subjects for baiting . |
| 26 | And … and she set us to the station , and … and Mama promised to write . ’ |
| 27 | We found that the walk to Fuglafjell was farther ( and much rougher ) than we had anticipated , so we persuaded a fisherman to take us to the bird cliffs in his boat . |
| 28 | All of which brings us to the text editor . |
| 29 | We tramp across the wet grass and bracken and plunge through the soaking undergrowth with Andy confidently predicting , with all the security of a man who knows his feet are dry and will remain so , that this bushwhacking through chest-deep and sodden vegetation will soon bring us to the crag . |
| 30 | Once aboard , Roger our friendly tutor , introduced us to the art of running and handling a 60′ boat and coping with locks . |