Example sentences of "come to us [prep] " 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 | ‘ We are happy to support local schemes which wo n't worsen our mainstream business , and while hitherto we 've waited for passenger executives or consortiums to come to us with a proposal , we might in the future consider taking more initiative . ’ |
| 4 | I do n't think Tom probably approved , but she well actually when they used to come to us on Sunday I used to take them to er , to Belver Fall me and David , Thelma 's husband and he 's er , his father was a superintendent so , do you want any tea ? |
| 5 | BR could have come to us at the outset and said , ’ King 's Cross has to be the location for a whole series of railway reasons , but let us talk about how best to ensure that the building of the station has minimal impact on local people and their lives . ’ |
| 6 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 7 | Other well known names who have come to us for instruction are British Telecom , Hewlett Packard , Lucas Aerospace and John Lewis at Milton Keynes . |
| 8 | They have not come to us for specific assistance under the know-how fund . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | The rest come to us through the Northern Real Ale Agency , a wholesaler based in Newcastle . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | They have come to us from a time before recorded poets . |
| 13 | Strings sound silky but not close and the woodwind come to us from a perfectly judged distance . |
| 14 | It came to us via Portsmouth ! — Quite a well-travelled missive . |
| 15 | The situation is that in the current year , we 're saying we have a distribution of a specific grant which is ring fenced , roughly half of it came to us using er , S S A factors , standard standing assessment factors , and roughly , something of the order of half of it , came to us on the basis of one or two snapshots of what the D S S was spending in Shropshire in terms of supporting people in residential care . |
| 16 | The thing about Tim is that he came to us with a experience of a polishing shop so he was very well placed to help us improve our spiriting-out technique that is so necessary on a fine shellac finish . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ They came to us with the scheme in the first place . |
| 18 | The family wanted to dispute the will , and that 's when Angela — Miss Morgan — came to us for advice . |
| 19 | ‘ 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 . |
| 20 | Some people came to us for a week , some for a month and a few wanted to be taught the essentials of the job in two or three days . |
| 21 | A man came to us for food recently , but he also needed spiritual counselling . |
| 22 | Yeah , the reason that happened was that there was no-one servicing holidays erm and they came to us for an allocation and and we gave it to them . |
| 23 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 24 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 25 | ‘ She came to us at St Sylvester 's , ’ Theodora amplified . |
| 26 | In the spring of nineteen eighty-nine , a number of voluntary organisations involved in running telephone help-lines , came to us about B T's plans to introduce compulsory itemised billing , for all customers over the next few years . |
| 27 | Military chaplains moved in with the troops , and news of the Christian community came to us through them . |
| 28 | ‘ But he came to us through normal casting , ’ said Rogers . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | He was an astute purchase , for he came to us as a proven goalscorer and immediately lived up to his reputation by netting upon his debut against Millwall here at Selhurst Park ( 5–0 ) and going on to hit 19 League goals from 27 outings for us in the remainder of that season . |