Example sentences of "[adv prt] to us [prep] [art] " in BNC.

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1 Affective rather than rational , originating by chance hundreds of years ago and according to individual choices made in small communities , later expanding through the demographic growth of tribes and peoples , family systems perpetuate themselves by inertia … this combination of anthropological types , coming down to us from an indeterminate past , has in the twentieth century played a trick on the ideal of modernity .
2 We have a traditional culture , which comes down to us from the time of the Renaissance , and our literature , which is rich , draws its life blood therefrom .
3 Much medieval painting has come down to us in a fragmentary condition , and often in a very poor state of conservation .
4 Biblioth. , P.L. 28.556 ) , and Origen still knew its Hebrew title , which has come down to us in a corrupt and unintelligible form , Sarbethsabanaiel ( ap .
5 The mutilated text of the passage of Polybius has come down to us in the Excerpta de sententiis and the keyword " he wept " , has to be supplied from Diodorus ( 32.24 ) with the support of Appian , Punica 132 : they are known to have used Polybius directly or indirectly .
6 1991 we had two trees with flashing lights , and a local family , whose children had written in to us about the trees , were invited to switch them on .
7 Why wo n't you come over to us for a week , or even for a night ? "
8 Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island .
9 Get your x-rays done and they 'll send the results over to us in a week .
10 It was a very small audience , only about forty people , and he came up to us in the break and told us he loved it and wanted a T-shirt .
11 Nanna wants to have all the er plants picked out of the greenhouse and erm have them all in the trays and up to us by the end of May before they go away on holiday .
12 And I suppose it 's up to us like the erm the old stagers to we should know better and I think Tom the Union chap , he 's he can see that and he wants to avoid it cos he 's got to speak to the lot of them ?
13 Even the tracks smelt like pythons , over and above the surrounding stench , and football-sized bundles of bones were pointed out to us as the regurgitated remains of their meals .
14 Perhaps we could all be a lot more tolerant of ourselves for sometimes longing to be beautiful if we considered for how many years of our lives this had been held out to us as an ideal .
15 Tea was carried out to us on a brass tray from the women 's quarters .
16 As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel .
17 I mean , if it 's pointed out to us by the lord we we try
18 The Soviets fed some disinformation back to us about the meetings with ‘ Nikolai ’ , hinting that Mills was working for them and using the meetings to pass information across . ’
19 Well send it back to us as a , as a genuine complaint .
20 Somebody once said that if angelism , sharing the gospel was one beggar telling another beggar about bread , where it could be found and undoubtedly when he was saying that he was thinking of that story that account that we had read to us earlier from the second book of kings , chapter seven , and I 'd like us to er turn back to us for a few moments this morning and perhaps draw some lessons for ourselves Sometimes as Christians its very easier for us to say what sins are , and we can see other people 's failings , you do n't have to be a Christian to do that of course , plenty of other people can do that , they see the failings of other people , they see the wrong doing they do , they see their wickedness their , their waywardness , whatever words we want to use to describe it , and we say well that is sin , perhaps for most of us this morning we could make er a list a , a , a tabulate a table of sins and we might say well they are worse sins and there are lesser sins and I would I suppose by and large there would be a fairly reasonable consensus of opinion regarding what was sins and what were not sins .
21 Er few problems with the job before we started or during the job er , come back to us for a six so far so we have to What we will do is drop them down and Er another problem with the job is we 're about three week 's behind er arranged for them to come in on Monday .
22 If by then you 're not completely hooked ( We know you will be ! ) then we insist that you send it back to us for an immediate full refund .
23 They will give the theatre back to us for the opening and then we will give it back to them for the Summer during which they should solve the problem . ’
24 And the society investigates them , and if they are deserving , either refers them to some appropriate charity or grants them relief or refers them back to us with a note of recommendation . ’
25 Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods .
26 ‘ He was passed on to us by a friend , darling , ’ the second Lady Deverill replied .
27 What can he do for anyone in that graveyard of a city except catch their rot and pass it on to us in the long run ?
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