Example sentences of "[noun pl] [be] [verb] to us [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | A wide selection of mustards were supplied to us by Arran Provisions , Colman 's and Burnham Mustards |
2 | Sometimes the most immense-changes are given to us in a short story of only a few pages : Chekhov 's ‘ Let Me Sleep ’ sees an exhausted , brutalised servant-girl murder a baby in six pages ; Katherine Mansfield 's ‘ Revelations ’ sees a woman who longs for freedom and independence rush for security to an unloved but ardent suitor — because everything feels strange at her hairdresser 's , where she learns that a tragedy has occurred — in seven pages . |
3 | Constables know that all radio messages are taped and that the time they take to arrive at calls is recorded , which is often unnecessary , given the competition to beat other stations and colleagues by getting there first , although stories were told to us of instances where people were transferred for failing to respond to a call . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Let us take the usable answers ( a ) — ( f ) for Question 2 and determine what antecedents and consequences are known to us from the text . |
6 | Complaints were made to us about certain members of our staff ( who , incidentally , no longer work for us ) going into unoccupied floors to make love . |
7 | The instincts are known to us as impulses , wishes or desires which seek direct satisfaction , unless they are totally repressed . |