Example sentences of "to us [prep] the [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
| 2 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
| 3 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
| 4 | Erm the talks erm Gillian Thornton is gon na speak to us on the 23rd of February just to remind you and I 've actually prepared some notes on play writing which we can fit in some time during this sort of session . |
| 5 | This short article is to let you know what has happened to us over the last few months . |
| 6 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |
| 7 | Sun is looking to shoot down Silicon Graphics Inc with Freedom , admitting that its graphics specialist neighbour in Mountain View , California , has been ‘ a major irritation to us over the last few years . ’ |
| 8 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
| 9 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
| 10 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
| 11 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
| 12 | Now given the nature of the coastal economy and what has happened to us in the last ten years or so , we have calculated our conversions through to two thousand and six on a reducing level . |