Example sentences of "[not/n't] [verb] to us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 2 | Now the Devil , I argued , is not revealed to us by God at all . |
| 3 | Unlike the infant Stephen in Joyce 's Portrait , Titus does not appear to us through his own childish language , but through a " web of ritual " ( a phrase which occurs in the paragraph preceding our extract ) . |
| 4 | The European consortium did not appear to us to be particularly cohesive in their aims and objectives . |
| 5 | He went on : ‘ BR have not talked to us about limiting overtime , but it says a lot about the industry when limiting shifts to 12 hours a day is considered progress . ’ |
| 6 | They could er er er because thi it this would be a birthrate problem not known to us as boys and I along with seven or eight others , were taken to the standard four to start , after the holidays , which was in August . |
| 7 | If you have a query about anything concerning the outdoor world why not write to us at Outdoor Action ? |
| 8 | It does not seem to us to be particularly fruitful to discuss highly generalised theories of whether international law is or could be ‘ law ’ as such : if viewed from the perspective of ‘ effectiveness ’ , international law may have to be judged differently , depending on whether , for example , the focus is on regional economic relations regulated by treaties , or on customary law applicable to the laws of war on a universal scale . |
| 9 | Most of the other examples cited in Bolinger 's article as adjectives capable only of sense-qualification do not seem to us to be properly so classified either ; if they are felt to be atypical it is for some other reason . |
| 10 | ‘ We are very upset they obviously have not listened to us at all , ’ she said after the policy committee meeting . |
| 11 | He did n't speak to us after that . |
| 12 | ‘ They do n't seem to us to be acting very sensibly , ’ says Thomas , quietly . |
| 13 | ‘ The police did n't talk to us about it . ’ |
| 14 | He does n't talk to us about his problems — he scarcely talks at all . |
| 15 | time and time again they sit on the sidelines saying this is what we think do n't talk to us about it do n't debate it , do n't ask us to think about it , take it or leave it , if you do n't give us what we want we 'll sit back and moan and sulk and they 've played , I think that 's a very irresponsible line they 've played in the five years I 've been on this council and I hope that er again the issue on the next item on the agenda represents a change of heart on their behalf . |
| 16 | Wo n't talk to us in English . |