Example sentences of "and [verb] to us [prep] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | The other side is the consciousness of perfection and blessedness which we recognise as mediated to us through Jesus and communicated to us by him . |
| 2 | Er , our importance has er , frankly now been recognised by the Prime Minister , who talked about the voluntary organisations not very long ago and referred to us as cement , which holds society together , and I think if that 's right , and hopefully , the government may take a bit more notice of us . |
| 3 | As far as I was concerned it was a nightmare , and merged in my memory with actually being evacuated ; the kids going down to Ladywell station in a crocodile on one side of the road , clutching oranges and bars of chocolate , and the mothers on the other , weeping and wailing and shouting to us across the street , lots of dwarfs and lots of Snow Whites . |
| 4 | I think the persons who helped me most were the professional actors who were playing in the West End and came to us as teachers during the day . |
| 5 | Quite the opposite happened with the ‘ sea cucumber ’ : slimy , chewy , sweaty black and fed to us in quantities — then redefined as ‘ sea slug ’ . |
| 6 | and told to us in the days before he died |
| 7 | She saw us as allies and babbled to us in a mixture of French and Arabic throughout the hymns , then sighed loudly and looked out of the window as the prayers droned on . |
| 8 | Well as an association , we naturally get ourselves involved with many other aspects of the university activities in that erm both the students are applicants of ours and come and talk to us about projects which they may like to see emerge , and other departments of the university , the music department etc. , sometimes find that our knowledge of the area , or certain aspects of some of the schemes that we 're operating , coincide with what they 're trying to do and it turns out to be that campuses like this are often useful places for residencies and artists will come and take up residency in a university for a period of time , and that 's often been exploited by the Association . |
| 9 | ‘ We would still appeal to any member of the public who has any suspicion or information to get in touch and talk to us in confidence . |
| 10 | And they came in and chatted to us about it . |
| 11 | It was like climbing a waterfall , but there was a warder at the top , clinging to a railing and yelling to us at the top of his voice to hurry — as if we needed such encouragement . |
| 12 | Patsy and her sons arrived in the village on Friday evening and spoke to us on the telephone . |
| 13 | There is a limited number of places so , to make sure you do n't miss out , fill in the coupon on page 216 and return to us without delay . |
| 14 | right , okay so anyway that erm one 's causing a little bit of concern , I 've got another one scheduled for March which I was going to centre on here where will come along and talk to us about the Editor and the Royal Visit and you know ee ach dear me how glad I am to be away from the Scottish Office |
| 15 | I would be grateful if you could arrange for clause two to be completed and initialled and the documents signed and returned to us for signature on behalf of the Press . |