Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] to us [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Family Allowance as it stands at present is for many women the only money we have which belongs to us by right . |
| 2 | This volume was thus very largely taken up with an exposition of the doctrine of the Trinity , not as a second-order theological construction , but as sketching the basis within God himself of the possibility and actuality of his making of himself known to us in jesus Christ . |
| 3 | Said John , well , we 've got other ideas we 'd like you to come to us for Christmas , so I thought , as I said to Brenda , you do n't turn down an invitation from your own children |
| 4 | So all these people who lecture to us about democracy should really examine the situation it 's got nothing to do with democracy whatsoever when less people are entitled to have a say . |
| 5 | If we are to continue to meet the rapidly growing needs of those who look to us for care and prevention , we urgently need you to share the challenge with us . |
| 6 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 7 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 8 | ‘ If you are Mr Alan Millet then you come to us in deceit . ’ |
| 9 | I have a very eccentric aunt who comes to us for Christmas , flying visits . |
| 10 | As a medium it is supreme among the arts in its ability to portray the real world , hut it is in itself quite artificial , and it speaks to us by way of a pictorial language which first took shape during the early days of the silent cinema . |
| 11 | It comes to us by virtue of the ‘ Coriolis Effect ’ created by changes in atmospheric pressure . |
| 12 | These , er , workers ’ — his voice took on a faint sneer as he said the word — ‘ these workers suggest that most human behavior is learned , that we are controlled in our actions not by our inheritance but by what happens to us after birth . |