Example sentences of "[verb] to us [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Theology must take as its starting-point the actuality of God 's self-revelation in Jesus Christ , disclosed to us by the Holy Spirit , and set its sights and adjust its compass by that . |
| 2 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 3 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 4 | The fragmented narrative cultivated by Vargas Llosa , for example , is intended to replicate the way in which we experience real life , in that events and information are presented to us in a disjointed fashion and it is only when we have lived through the reading experience that we are able to piece it all together with the benefit of hindsight . |
| 5 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 6 | Erm the talks erm Gillian Thornton is gon na speak to us on the 23rd of February just to remind you and I 've actually prepared some notes on play writing which we can fit in some time during this sort of session . |
| 7 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 8 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 9 | ‘ The Commission appointed to investigate the disaster came to us after an earlier attempt to prove the cause of the crash had failed , ’ explains senior project manager Steve Jackman . |
| 10 | The Creator is revealed to us as a rational , moral , feeling person , capable of making choices . |
| 11 | Our values are distorted by the power of advertising and the ideology fed to us via the mass media , they would claim . |
| 12 | She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do . |
| 13 | She crashed out a few chords and started to talk to us in a different voice through her ‘ control ’ , who was ( of course ) , a Red Indian — White Cloud or Black Feet or something like that . |
| 14 | In this new series of letters , Sue Robson will be writing to us from a small-town university in the Yangste River Valley , China . |
| 15 | A man talked to us about the Christian way of life . |
| 16 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
| 17 | One of many legends on the closeness of human and chimpanzee has been told to us by an old man in the village of Daobli , near our study site in Taï national park . |
| 18 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 19 | We suggest that , while bicycles may be recognizable by reference to the fact that they are damaged ( as in ( 59 ) ) , we can not easily describe bicycles as belonging to us in the same respect ; nor can we refer to ideas as belonging to you inasmuch as they are " discussed " . |
| 20 | The time interval between one bird stopping and the other starting is so short that we can not detect it , and the duet sounds to us like a continuous solo . |
| 21 | Together you can return to us from the frozen forbidden place . |
| 22 | I do n't think anyone will dispute that those are not offices suited to us in the nineties . |
| 23 | He talked to us about the new country , about snow , about the huge city , and we all wanted to know more , to see what it was like . |
| 24 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 25 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
| 26 | It is the most potent poison known to us from the entire animal world . |
| 27 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 28 | It seems probable that the high metabolic rate of such diminutive creatures is a reflection of what appears to us as a high-speed mental appreciation of events . |
| 29 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
| 30 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |