Example sentences of "[verb] to us in [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ‘ Do you ever think about that thing that happened to us in the park ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 ) . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | We decided to walk to the waterfall to see what Gullfoss , well known to us in the summer , had to offer in winter . |
| 9 | ‘ 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 . |
| 10 | So often , what has happened to us in the past determines whether or not we find it easy to trust both ourselves and others emotionally as adults . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He would talk to us in the morning . |
| 13 | In this poem Jnandas addresses God 's messenger , who comes to us in the morning light of our childhood , in the dusk of our day 's end , and in the night 's darkness : |