Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] [prep] us [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 2 | An important working library on South-East Asia and much modern French literature has come to us by bequest of M. Jacques Dauphin , father of our former Lady Carlisle Research Fellow , Dr. Claudine Dauphin ; we owe special thanks to Dr. Dauphin and the army of Somervillian and non-Somervillian friends who helped transport this large collection of books across the Channel , and to Ann Raynes who stepped in at short notice to deliver the last consignment from London to Oxford . |
| 3 | But then if the foreman sees , he starts complaining about us in front of all the other workers , and even the supervisor , saying we always waste time and talk too much . |
| 4 | A kind and intelligent psychiatrist ( one of the few we ever saw outside the hospital ) came to talk to us about schizophrenia — the most feared mental illness of all . |
| 5 | In other words , the two sentences might go together , but the reasons are not strictly linguistic ; they are to do with our knowledge of the world where these events take place ( although that knowledge may also have come to us through language ) . |
| 6 | One notable absentee at the party was IBM Corp , but the company insisted that it had put out a release — it simply failed to get to us by close of page . |
| 7 | If they come looking for us with tusk and fang you 'd better be ready with that Winchester peashooter of yours . " |
| 8 | And increasingly , vegetation is influenced by human history — what we decided to plant , or have carried with us by accident . |
| 9 | Other well known names who have come to us for instruction are British Telecom , Hewlett Packard , Lucas Aerospace and John Lewis at Milton Keynes . |
| 10 | Mention is made of how in the viewing of the mountains " … it is to be seen how the very naturall working of those flood falling from the height in winter stormes have broken down & worn such rifts & slitts in the rocks as hereby the dead leaders or mettall finnes or vaine have appeared unto us above ground which before were hid by the earth & stones formerly covring the rocks some 2 or 3 fathomes deep … " |