Example sentences of "takes us [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 This , of course , takes us away from the ‘ here and now ’ .
2 It certainly takes us away from the notion of a centre of power claiming alleged sovereignty over supposedly homogeneous territory .
3 We must then continue with a rolling programme of reform that takes us away from the narrow concept of notional rents .
4 When Thomas Turner , Sussex village shopkeeper turned thirty , confides his deep hurt at ‘ the seeming distant behaviour with which my mother treated me today , seeming so mistrustful that I should cheat her ’ , he takes us right to the heart of the complex mixture of love and pain which then as now underlies the relationship between adult children and the older generation :
5 In other words , the superposition principle takes us straight to the heart of quantum mechanics ' elusive indeterminacy .
6 But Chris Avery , of stockbrokers Smith New Court , said : ‘ It is a tangible , positive step forward and takes us well down the path of Al Yamamah two becoming a reality rather than a hope for bonanza . ’
7 Our evolutionary story takes us now beyond the proto-reptiles , the lizard-like ancestors of both reptiles and dinosaurs .
8 All the same , Lorraine McAslan on Collins Classics takes us deeper inside the music , while Nigel Clayton does not make Lonquich 's mistake of crossing the border between passion and brutality .
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