Example sentences of "[vb infin] us to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Oliver 's serenade will introduce us to Vitellia and Sesto , Annio and Servillia , and the Emperor Titus — ‘ and it will be clear that the first couple have a really terrible time , and that the second pair have a really nice time , and that the last gent , the one who does n't get married at the end , has to reconcile the emotions of the other four in himself . ’ |
| 2 | That would still give us to complaint examiners , because the formula is nearly four . |
| 3 | Nor is it sensible to wish that it were otherwise , since raptures , aesthetic , erotic , intellectual , mystical , in which the spontaneous floods the whole of consciousness , can lift us to heights of awareness beyond our ordinary capacities . |
| 4 | The will of the people of Newcastle will see us to safety . ’ |
| 5 | It is not an entity or an origin , although the language we use may predispose us to thinking of it in those terms . |
| 6 | To look at them and see their incomprehension does surely move us to sadness ; for we aspire to Thoreau 's Great City of the West , but these men are blind . |
| 7 | 'T IS pity , that this passion alone should set us to Rhyming . |
| 8 | ‘ I expect our journey to track down Jeff will take us to areas you have n't seen . ’ |
| 9 | I 've told you , he 's got this mania for her : not only would he take us to court but … but I think he 'd kill anybody who dared to stand between her and him . |
| 10 | ‘ The Hansom will take us to Blackburn Railway Station , then from there we 'll travel to Liverpool and should arrive with time to spare . ’ |
| 11 | D does does this take us to Cafe Direct ? |
| 12 | will it take us to granddad 's ? |
| 13 | Me dad 'd take us to pictures . |
| 14 | ‘ We , the country people of Tayside in Perth , living between Fortingall in the west , Foss on Tummel in the north , and Logierait in the east , do solemnly petition your Worship to exempt us from the Militia Act passed in July this year , 1797 , for it would submit us to hardship and bondage , which we believe to be no duty of ours . ’ |
| 15 | Stories can mobilize us to action and affect our behavior — more powerfully than simple and straightforward information ever can . |
| 16 | We might do better to find the hired assassin and let him lead us to McCloy . ’ |
| 17 | Step 2 of the Anonymous Fellowships states " Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity " . |
| 18 | " Came to believe that a Power greater than ourselves could restore us to sanity " . |
| 19 | Differences in the content of thought , such as concern with witchcraft or with physics , should not blind us to similarities in the fundamental processes of thought . |
| 20 | ’ You mean they might not get us to Fraxilly ’ . |
| 21 | ‘ I 'll drive us to Soho . ’ |
| 22 | Perhaps your very words are what must represent us to posterity . |
| 23 | Erm but do you want us to keep our own results or do you want us to pool all together |
| 24 | I mean do you want us to hand another one in ? |
| 25 | But please do n't ask us to crew your young ones up with other adults … many are teachers , meant to be on holiday ! |
| 26 | We 're over Maple White Land , the dinosaurs will rip us to bits . ’ |