Example sentences of "us to " in BNC.
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| 1 | To it we owe that nervous , spidery line of the drawings — so quick , so attentive , yet so despairing — that alerts us to the elusiveness of the subject at the same time that it perseveres in the attempt to render it . |
| 2 | He can introduce us to some American girls and boys who spoke up about what they noticed and liked . |
| 3 | They do n't direct us to the late survival of a gypsy paradise . |
| 4 | Genius of Picasso to recall us to this , with his combinations of life-class drawing , cubism , collage , lettering , etc . |
| 5 | It is up to us to institute delay , he wrote . |
| 6 | This brings us to the ‘ Catch 22 ’ situation that we , as designer , find ourselves in with regard to conservation bodies . |
| 7 | Well , I slipped out , of course , as mistress likes us to — ’ |
| 8 | In the bustle of everything , none of us noticed her do it — there was no reason for us to . |
| 9 | I mean , I 'm not saying I want us to be living at the top of a tower block on some vandalized estate but there 's more to life than this , I know there is . ’ |
| 10 | This returns us to Arendt 's observation that secrecy is a prerequisite of totalitarianism , for those involved in the executive use of power know that to reveal is antagonistic to its maintenance . |
| 11 | My only training and instruction for the job was given by a detective chief inspector , who told us to ‘ get out there and lock up thieves ’ . |
| 12 | Yes means a time for us to be together , us and only us in a place that is beautiful and special and quiet and does n't know just how amazing a love is about to transform it into one of those Indian summer memories that make deaf old ladies grin knowingly , when you think they are dead in a deckchair on the sea front . |
| 13 | ‘ 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 . ’ |
| 14 | Happily , the work of these ‘ old timers ’ still inspires and encourages us to this very day . |
| 15 | One of our walks took us to the top of a huge escarpment at a place called Losiolo , or World 's View . |
| 16 | There was a good ice slope leading up to rime of rocks that would take us to this secondary top . |
| 17 | That brings us to Stavrogin 's third yawn . |
| 18 | Helen Gardner was aware of the problem , observing that the pursuit of image patterns , or of the ideas in a poem , can be useful to the interpreter , but can not ‘ be more than auxiliary in leading us to the true ‘ meaning' ’ of the work , which is the meaning which enlarges our own imaginative life . ’ |
| 19 | And this would be the point from which to look back at Olson , as Catherine Seelye wants us to , and to regard The Maximus Poems as embodying ‘ the way of confusio ’ . |
| 20 | Whelms us to the tired land where tasseling corn , |
| 21 | The collapse of Marxism-Leninism has brought us to that ‘ absolute moment ’ which marks the end of humanity 's long journey through the night of political confusion and abortive social and economic experiment . |
| 22 | History orients us to the present . |
| 23 | Which brings us to the next item , the String Quartet No 1 by Srul Irving Glick ( born 1934 ) . |
| 24 | And Deane Beman ( the US Tour commissioner ) does n't want us to cherry-pick on their tour . ’ |
| 25 | Which brings us to the blockbusting Italy issue arranged by Morgan Stanley , the US investment bank which put together the first US-style issue in Europe with an offering for New Zealand in August . |
| 26 | One old man hauled into a police van declared : ‘ They 've invited us to the birthday celebrations , do n't you see ! ’ |
| 27 | ‘ Could he come with us to the West ? ’ she asks . |
| 28 | The twists and turns of Goldwyn 's life can become tedious , since he was so often fighting the same battles ; and the extent of his involvement in the industry means that Berg continually digresses to enlarge on some aspect of movie history , or introduces us to other personalities as they appear . |
| 29 | No one , in this cast of hundreds , has just a walk-on part : a role in just one Goldwyn film entitles us to the full biography of Frances Farmer , from winning a teenage essay competition to her eventual confinement in an asylum . |
| 30 | We know now why God chose us to be agents and not lollipop persons or antique dealers . |