Example sentences of "[verb] to us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 2 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 3 | And Jesus does n't just chat to us for the sake of chatting to us , he , when he speaks to us his words have authority , they have input , they are vital and we must pay attention to them . |
| 4 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
| 5 | To miss out on the opportunity afforded to us by the Chancellor of the Exchequer is to deny those in the greatest housing need the opportunity to get decent low cost housing . |
| 6 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 7 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
| 8 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 9 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 10 | She said er well they came to us in the interval and Con was just like , I thought she 'll call me when Sally has gone , Sally had their address , she 'd just you know , she was gon na be in there and Con said , look , did you look at that dress she said , whoever makes them ! |
| 11 | People came to us after the meeting , we met this lady and er she was really interested in our cause . |
| 12 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 13 | All this is a matter of statistics and arid generalities : but what the transformation of these local heaths meant to those who had grown up near them and upon them , what the change meant in detail , is revealed to us in the poetry of John Clare , who was born in 1793 on the edge of the heath country of northern Northamptonshire . |
| 14 | Okay , well we 'll come back to that , if I may , in a moment , because I just want to move on again to another guest , who is waiting to talk to us on the telephone , and that is Lindsay McNeill , who is the Aviation Reporters for Travel News . |
| 15 | Well waiting to talk to us on the telephone now is Rupert Lancaster , who 's the managing director of Foders U K. |
| 16 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 17 | Terence Maule declined to talk to us about the matter other than to say he was aware the Allisses were taking action . |
| 18 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 19 | This was of a different order from my imaginings about the Chinese communists , arch villains whose evil doings were retailed to us in the classroom with the same ferocious didacticism that accompanies the telling of a lurid fairy tale and enhances its horrifying fascination . |
| 20 | he has done this morning , and he 's talked to us about the film . |
| 21 | This was sold to us , please , this was sold to us on the basis that it was going to bring in the baddies and sort out the baddies , and we 'd all live happily ever after . |
| 22 | Let us give thanks for the example of love and compassion shown to us by the life of Jesus Christ . |
| 23 | The station was offered to us for the sum of £20,000 , but when we asked for a private valuation in the hope of securing a loan to purchase the site , the valuer valued the site at only £10,000 . |
| 24 | Once she has capitulated and goes off to gain her daughter 's assent he switches faces , turning to us in the middle of a line : ‘ Bear her my true love 's kiss ; and so , farewell/Relenting fool , and shallow-changing woman ! ’ ( 431–2 ) . |
| 25 | At present some think it weak-kneed through lack of characters but Brian , speaking to us in the Belfry , has been talking to possible sponsors . |
| 26 | Nigel Dudding , you 're speaking to us from the bar at erm Henley Rugby Club , what was the atmosphere there , watching the game ? |
| 27 | And this is what I think the dream is trying to tell me , a message so clear now you have shown me the way to understand these voices speaking to us from the hinterland , so to speak . |
| 28 | Even our sonship , mediated to us by the Spirit , has this ambiguity about it . |
| 29 | This contact may take place in the intercourse of the classroom , the playground , the home and the outer world , or solely in the inner world of thought and feeling , through the personal records of action and experience known to us under the form of literature . |
| 30 | We decided to walk to the waterfall to see what Gullfoss , well known to us in the summer , had to offer in winter . |