Example sentences of "come to us [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once we accept that fact , we can relax and enjoy the relationship , knowing that , because we are not tying them down , they are all the more likely to remain our friends and even to continue to come to us for support and for advice . |
| 2 | Said John , well , we 've got other ideas we 'd like you to come to us for Christmas , so I thought , as I said to Brenda , you do n't turn down an invitation from your own children |
| 3 | Other well known names who have come to us for instruction are British Telecom , Hewlett Packard , Lucas Aerospace and John Lewis at Milton Keynes . |
| 4 | In other words , the two sentences might go together , but the reasons are not strictly linguistic ; they are to do with our knowledge of the world where these events take place ( although that knowledge may also have come to us through language ) . |
| 5 | An important working library on South-East Asia and much modern French literature has come to us by bequest of M. Jacques Dauphin , father of our former Lady Carlisle Research Fellow , Dr. Claudine Dauphin ; we owe special thanks to Dr. Dauphin and the army of Somervillian and non-Somervillian friends who helped transport this large collection of books across the Channel , and to Ann Raynes who stepped in at short notice to deliver the last consignment from London to Oxford . |
| 6 | ‘ People originally came to us for help with choosing wallpapers , paints , fabrics and curtains , but we realised we could give them a much broader service , ’ explains Jon . |
| 7 | The family wanted to dispute the will , and that 's when Angela — Miss Morgan — came to us for advice . |
| 8 | A man came to us for food recently , but he also needed spiritual counselling . |
| 9 | ‘ People are coming to us with horror stories of simple debts that have mushroomed into thousands of pounds . |
| 10 | ‘ Every day we have women come to us in shock , saying ‘ Nothing like this has ever happened to me before . |
| 11 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 12 | I think , I 'd like to just take up the point about secrecy because I am involved in talking to couples where the , there is a basic problem of male infertility where th the husband of the couple , or the partner of the couple is unable to father a child because he 's not producing any sperm , or not producing enough sperm and that couple come to us for help and advice |
| 13 | Protecting birds is not always a battle — the Society is so large , experienced and well-respected that Government and other bodies frequently come to us for advice . |
| 14 | Of course , some of the organs come to us for analysis . " |
| 15 | Well one year it used to be that she come to us at dinner time |
| 16 | ‘ If you are Mr Alan Millet then you come to us in deceit . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ People come to us from department stores because they ca n't find this kind of furniture there , ’ said manager Steve Raper . |
| 18 | I have a very eccentric aunt who comes to us for Christmas , flying visits . |
| 19 | Sam McAughtry , who first took his seat on this stage back in 1985 , will delight us with his humorous and heartwarming tales of life in the Tiger 's Bay district of North Belfast , while the best-selling author of ‘ To School Through the Fields ’ Alice Taylor , comes to us from County Cork with stories of life as a youngster on an isolated farm in that county in the '40s . |
| 20 | It comes to us by virtue of the ‘ Coriolis Effect ’ created by changes in atmospheric pressure . |