Example sentences of "us come " in BNC.

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31 They like us to come along and have a stand erm which we do sometimes , and erm it also follows on , the insurance companies then step in because very often the organisers will take out a pluvious insurance to erm fend themselves off against loss of income because of wet weather , and we provide the information to the insurance companies of how much rain fell in the vicinity of that show , and this sort of thing .
32 We 'd like all of us to come back there .
33 Thanks for asking us to come to the marathon .
34 There was no need for free milk like other school children received , because most of us came from farms with cows , so we brought our own .
35 And at that moment , the two people that usually took over from us came round the corner , poked their heads round and said ‘ Oh hello , fancy seeing you here , we just thought we 'd pop round to say goodbye . ’
36 Fifteen minutes later , having banged and bumped our way up another track heading directly for the low hills , the two of us came to the small tin-roofed hut which I had imagined and there , standing before it , was the single link required to bring Balboa 's journey and mine into their final conjunction .
37 First , as the whole island trembled like jelly , from way beneath us came what sounded like a giant rustling great sheets of brown wrapping-paper .
38 Most of the textbooks , were handed to us came from cupboards of storage , of which they must have had about sixty each , those classes were always , from then on , sixty boys in a class for one teacher .
39 Er , so two of us came in sixty-one the third one , youngest one , came in sixty- five .
40 It 's a terraced house and er , it 's double storey , two floors up and er , it was well-used at that time because the reason was one er , there was n't much accommodation available and secondly it is the custom amongst our people that who 's ever er is in need we have the person , like the two of us came from India , my brother and myself , so we di could n't get a job .
41 From somewhere in front of us came one more hopeless scream .
42 We paid rent to be there and er and of course either Hugh or me or both of us came up to see my mother every day , you see , unless we knew she was going to have a visitor and then we used to take a day off
43 Now remember we all of us came from the background that , you know this world was going to come to an end very soon .
44 As the crowd of us came out of the car , he leaned backwards over Mr Quigley 's fence and spat , slowly and deliberately , into the geraniums .
45 When he saw us coming back from the movies every Sunday , discussing the film , he would say , ‘ I do n't believe it .
46 ‘ All the people waiting at the bus stops were shrivelled up with the cold ; they looked so miserable standing there but cheered up when they saw us coming along .
47 So do not look for us coming Lily but think rather of you coming home if you have a mind .
48 ‘ The Thing is quite definite about us coming from somewhere else , Gurder , ’ said Masklin meekly .
49 It feels like there are more of us coming together in all our groups to continue challenging our various communities on their continued exclusion of us .
50 Well , we did n't have much luck out in the open because the rabbits saw or heard or smelt us coming a mile off and bolted down the nearest hole , even though we were mute and trying to stay down wind ( the wind kept switching direction in little gusts ) .
51 They 'd see us coming hours before we got up there on foot , the girl would have been spirited away before we got anywhere near her and nobody would speak to us except in their incomprehensible dialect .
52 Erm I 've , I I think I 'll erm was talking about people attending the health authority meetings at the moment but the local health authority do move meetings around , Saffron Walden Bishop 's Stortford , Harlow and and and one over at erm and this apart from it 's was only us coming from Harlow at the meeting last week and the health authority met in Harlow er , you know the me the meetings are moving about , they are there for people to come to but if they 're not coming to the meetings while they 're o on on the doorstep then , then really what else can the health authority do to me , to make people come ?
53 So erm he travelled backwards and forwards for a year prior to us coming to live here permanently .
54 I came down when my husband was working on the factory site then as I say , prior to us coming to live here this was had n't been even built so we 've seen it grow from the floor to what it is today , you know ?
55 She saw us coming out of the restaurant and … . ’
56 Erm nobody 's gon na mug a person if they see us coming , or if they see a bobby coming .
57 It will be much , much nicer than us coming over to you .
58 I mean we were to come over Bridge here and there was a police station on Bridge at the time , police , you know opposite the T B I , and the sergeant used to stand there and he used to wait for us coming home .
59 I do n't mind if he hears us coming .
60 ‘ If we make a noise , he 'll hear us coming , and hide .
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