Example sentences of "[verb] to us [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 2 | They have come to us from a time before recorded poets . |
| 3 | Crown of thorns looks to us like a plague ; a disease of the reef . |
| 4 | Lamarck is presented to us as a man misunderstood , misrepresented , undeservedly neglected and as the subject of calumnies that made him appear as ‘ the enemy of religion and teleology , even as a mechanistic materialist ’ . |
| 5 | In the end , and because Lord Hunter was presented to us as a man of independent judgement , we decided to do so , and advised Meehan to do the same . |
| 6 | We identify a stretch of language as a text partly because it is presented to us as a text , and we therefore do our utmost to make sense of it as a unit , and partly because we perceive connections within and among its sentences . |
| 7 | Haunted by the fear that perhaps man is not the superior species , we seek salvation and find it because the animal kingdom is presented to us as a world of such wonder and magical beauty that we can believe in God 's kingdom and therefore our divine right to rule . |
| 8 | It also means that enquiries like , " Who has applied to us as a project engineer over the last year , and been rejected as not sufficiently experienced ? " can be answered with ease . |
| 9 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 10 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 11 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 12 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 13 | The picture in our feature was supplied to us by a manufacturer to illustrate a particular cot set and was not intended as a recommendation of how to put a baby down to sleep . |
| 14 | ‘ Comfortable as are our surroundings , they ofttimes seem to us like a prison . ’ |
| 15 | Nothing is going to be handed to us on a plate ; on the contrary , everything must be fought for and that 's why women 's organizations are necessary . |
| 16 | ‘ God , who spoke of old in many and varied ways to our fathers through the prophets , has in these last days spoken to us in a Son . |
| 17 | W what I go for are two major points I think which actually demonstrate the fallaciousness of this budget that has been proposed to us as an amendment . |
| 18 | ‘ He 's apparently coming to us as a replacement for poor old Eddy . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ It was given to us by a descendant of Boutcher , who wants to remain anonymous . |
| 20 | Our metabolic differences were once explained to us by a Dyak companion in Borneo as due to the fact that I belong to the tribe of gibbons , whereas Lorne belongs more to that of the orangutan . |
| 21 | It also has to be explained to us by a woman , who will examine us if necessary and keep it a secret . |
| 22 | Like so many of Lonsdale 's ladies she is surprising ; yet she speaks to us with a directness that wipes out the centuries . |
| 23 | Simon Brown J. cited no authority for this dictum , so far as it related to the possibility of supervisory jurisdiction of the High Court over the visitors to the Inns of Court , but it was cited to us as an example of a suggested parallel with the supervisory jurisdiction which the High Court undoubtedly exercises in other contexts which in some respects may be thought to be comparable . |
| 24 | If your college is not yet involved in the programme you can write to us for an application form at the address given below and we will endeavour to link you into a college undertaking the programme . |
| 25 | We do n't think , if I may say so , that the philosophers are yet talking to us in a language that we understand , although some of us are beginning to grasp it . |
| 26 | Here we are not only going to give you technical details , but also try and tell you what it means to us as a Community . |
| 27 | Write to us with an outline of your story , include a picture of the completed project , and if it 's published , you 'll receive a cash reward ! |
| 28 | This code allows you to actually record any production music before you come to us for a licence . |
| 29 | So , the businessman goes across the road to the people running the schools , and says , ‘ These are the jobs we want filled , if you can teach the children these skills we will give them priority if they come to us for a job when they leave . ’ |
| 30 | In view of what happened on the rugby field last week the French are unlikely to speak to us for a decade or so . |