Example sentences of "[verb] [verb] to 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 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Other well known names who have come to us for instruction are British Telecom , Hewlett Packard , Lucas Aerospace and John Lewis at Milton Keynes . |