Example sentences of "come [prep] we [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 D' you reckon mom will agree to come with us on the skiing ?
2 ‘ Signor Skof , we would like you to come with us to the barracks to answer some questions , ’ one of them said ; and the other : ‘ You will be allowed home this afternoon . ’
3 We warmed our hands as though a sudden chill had come upon us at the mention of his name .
4 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 . ’
5 Jane had come to us for the time being .
6 ‘ You came with us to the Fleet . ’
7 She came with us from the orphanage back home , two hundred heads in two hundreds beds and two hundred broken hearts under two hundred army surplus blankets and the good nuns to look after us .
8 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 .
9 He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place .
10 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 .
11 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 ) .
12 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 !
13 People came to us after the meeting , we met this lady and er she was really interested in our cause .
14 Then he was smiling , coming towards us with the charm turned on .
15 Comrade Wu , our guide who is coming with us for the rest of the tour , is teaching us some Chinese in the evenings , and we are trying out some new phrases every day and causing them some amusement .
16 Having said that , this place has been made ‘ valid through prayer ’ and can be seen as a sacrament of God 's coming to us through the demands of human life .
17 ‘ Could he come with us to the West ? ’ she asks .
18 " You can come with us to the Convent of St. Francis near Wild Tor .
19 We then said goodbye to the kindly fireman and Paul Ingouf said he would come with us to the Harbour where we were to catch the ferry to Portsmouth .
20 Nobody 's gon na come to us for the lease of erm William the fourth or anything like this !
21 Come with us into the Kasbah , and get your piece of the action .
22 There 's something special about things that come to us over the centuries . ’
23 In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself .
24 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 .
25 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 :
26 It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons .
27 Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar .
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