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

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1 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 .
2 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 .
3 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 .
4 Only after that will he turn the remaining details of his zombi control over to us for the final phase on the island .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 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 ?
8 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 .
9 As soon as we entered the restaurant the proprietor came out to us from the kitchen , rubbing his hands oilier on a tea towel .
10 I mean , if it 's pointed out to us by the lord we we try
11 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 . ’
12 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 . ’
13 Loans frequently come straight back to us from the purchase of Western goods .
14 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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