Example sentences of "come to us [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 2 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 3 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 4 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
| 5 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 6 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 7 | 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 ! |
| 8 | People came to us after the meeting , we met this lady and er she was really interested in our cause . |
| 9 | Nobody 's gon na come to us for the lease of erm William the fourth or anything like this ! |
| 10 | It is estimated that as much as 98% of dioxin intake by humans comes to us through the food chain , notably meat , milk , fish and eggs . |
| 11 | 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 : |
| 12 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
| 13 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |