Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] us to [art] " 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 | She led us to an unmarked oak door which opened into a short corridor , obviously a modern extension to the farmhouse . |
| 3 | ‘ Excuse me , , I said to an elderly gentleman coming towards us , ‘ can you direct us to the Gypsy Queen 's caravan ? ’ |
| 4 | Can you direct us to the table please ? |
| 5 | And she directed us to an examination cubicle adjacent to the great man 's room . |
| 6 | ‘ 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 . |
| 7 | Why did n't you invite us to the wedding , you bad man ? ’ |
| 8 | She alerted us to the possibility that ‘ using collaborative methods of working ’ could also mean ‘ helping children to create collaborative activities for themselves ’ . |
| 9 | I remember when she took us to the pantomime in town , and we saved up all our sweets for three weeks to give her as a present . |
| 10 | I was just supposed to keep an eye on you and let you lead us to the enemy . |
| 11 | She brings us to a town where the sky is full of burning , the old synagogue about to be engulfed ; white doves wheel round the rooftops , beat their wings , drive off the flames . |
| 12 | And … and she set us to the station , and … and Mama promised to write . ’ |
| 13 | Can you help us to a better understanding ? |
| 14 | ‘ They drove us to a lonely creek , ’ she said . |
| 15 | ‘ Do you think the trick will work if they trace us to the Hilton ? ’ |
| 16 | God knows what happened to the family they found us with , but they took us to a place called Fresnes gaol , Paris . |
| 17 | Throughout the whole thing , even when they took us to the palace , nobody said a word . |
| 18 | They took us to the police station and then to a battered women 's house at about 2 a.m . |
| 19 | They took us to the cleaners . |
| 20 | They took us to the laundry . |
| 21 | They took us to the hospital and I had to sign the paper and that was it . |
| 22 | Well it was a large double-fronted house and it was sand-bagged all round and there were tables and to er , administer , you know , wardens in the unevent of air raids which they used to do and they used to patrol the streets looking for lights to see if pe my nan actually got fined once cos she , she event inadvertently went into a room and put the light on and forgot she 'd left the curtains open and an air raid warden happened to be around she , she got hauled into court and fined five pounds for that , er she er I , I once I was just thinking the other day just telling a friend of mine , they had an actual practice air raid once and in some old buildings in the Burchells and we as kids had to go and lie in there and wait till we 'd got a tag on and what would happen to us a label and they took us to the first aid post in , an ambulance came and picked us up on a stretcher and took us to the first aid post in Road . |
| 23 | They took us to the airport , where we flew to Peking via Hangchow . |
| 24 | Then they took us to the Friendship Hotel ( an enormous complex of buildings ) and to a dinner , where we had ‘ hundred-year-old eggs ’ and other things ( actually the eggs are not all that old ! ) . |
| 25 | When I took her to a school for admission they sent us to the Education department . |
| 26 | Then they accompanied us to an eating house . |
| 27 | Instead of lean convictions and supple value judgments , they treat us to a slick orgy of channel-hopping ( Hiltler word-bite plus Mapplethorpe sight-bite and so on ) and feed us quivering slices of deconstruction , done to a turn . |
| 28 | By default he alerts us to the fact that it was the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries that saw individualist arguments gravitate to the political right and become , however marginally at first , a vocabulary and strategy available to the Conservative party . |
| 29 | Moreover , it alerts us to the fact that short-sighted tactics may thwart the overall strategy . |
| 30 | For an example of this , he refers us to a code of practice of the Association of the British Pharmaceutical Industry , with which some firms who are not members of the association nevertheless voluntarily agree to comply . |