Example sentences of "to us [prep] [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trees sang to us of a darkening age |
| 2 | It is a timely reminder to us of the true value and cost of ’ rediscovered ’ writers , and a challenge to Black women writers , not just in the USA , but throughout the Black Diaspora to get our act together and chronicle our lives and our times for ourselves . |
| 3 | When low down it seems to flash various colours , because its light is coming to us through a thick layer of the Earth 's atmosphere . |
| 4 | Jesus , the Christ , is the one who has come through the water of his baptism , through the blood of his cross , and is mediated to us through the Holy Spirit . |
| 5 | It had been hammered home to us during the previous winter . |
| 6 | It has seemed to us for a long time that something special about Foxton Locks and Inclined Plane is called for , and this is an attempt to meet that need . |
| 7 | Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island . |
| 8 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 9 | The next issue of Leads is scheduled for January 1990 and the copy deadline for you to submit information to us for the back page is 15 December 1989 . |
| 10 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |
| 11 | The people who care for these snakes are very clever at milking them and getting the venom from the animal safely , and this is then purified biochemically and erm sent to us as a dried product in a stoppered bottle and the snakes are a thousand miles away , I 'm glad to say . |
| 12 | She says it 's turning what was presented to us as a local bypass into a major through-way — motorway style — six lanes , elevated to 35 feet in places , lit all night slap through Oxford 's green belt . |
| 13 | At that time Sobstad were introducing the Genesis concept to the UK and David assured us that this hi-tech sail would be available to us as a one-design class for no more than the cost of our present Dacron sail . |
| 14 | By his coming to us as a human being and by his suffering , dying and rising for us , our lives have meaning and hope . |
| 15 | These are known to us as the African elephant , Loxodonta africana , and the Asian elephant , Elephas maximus . |
| 16 | Incredible though it now seems , the tomato , brought by the Spaniards from Peru to Spain at the close of the sixteenth century and shortly afterwards planted in France , Portugal , Italy and England , was well known to us as an ornamental plant for two hundred years before its culinary possibilities were perceived . |
| 17 | She also came to talk to us at a recent training day about what the very elderly can and can not do . |
| 18 | The concretion conveys a subtle message to us at a subconscious level . |
| 19 | Of all the therapies available to us at the present time , spiritual healing in whatever form it is administered is probably the most deep-acting , the most misunderstood and the least often practised . |
| 20 | Rainses had sat next to us at the boat-yard tea-house , and we had asked him about boats to Be-ni Hasan , a group of tombs some fifteen miles upstream . |
| 21 | If anyone would like to share their story with other readers , whether it 's happy , sad , amusing or just a bit out of the ordinary , then please write to us at the usual address . |
| 22 | It became clear that he was heading east towards Zamora in the opposite direction to us at the same level after takeoff from Porto , and fully occupied flying his aeroplane — he did not respond to the controller 's requests for position reports or estimates . |
| 23 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 24 | And I think we 've reached the stage , where the county council said , you come to us with a new initiative , and we 're far more likely to be , bend over to help you , than , than under the present . |
| 25 | He comes to us with a distinguished career in a technologically-orientated industry and I and my board colleagues look forward to working with him in taking AEA forward through an extremely important period in our development . |
| 26 | Because even after you 've applied and your policy has been issued you still have 14 days to return it to us with no financial obligation . |
| 27 | If the events in each of his series did happen or could have happened , they come to us with the optimistic tone , the promise of a happy ending , which we expect of the classic adventure story . |
| 28 | That 's not always attractive cos initially that 's more expensive for them , but er they ha they have to er come to us with an open mind as well . |
| 29 | It was sold to us on a false premise . |
| 30 | If you are sending information to us on a monthly basis , please ensure completed forms are returned by the first day of the month preceding the event ( eg for events taking place in November , information should reach the editor by 1 October ) . |