Example sentences of "to us [adv] than " in BNC.
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| 1 | The public simply wo n't come to us rather than a Russian company . |
| 2 | We find that the bank is actually paying interest to us rather than us paying interest to the bank . |
| 3 | In other rides the movie stretches out to us rather than vice versa . |
| 4 | to be able to convince c er our clients that they should come to us rather than somebody else . |
| 5 | Now , that in a sense , would have fitted much much better into the Playhouse , and had we been open at that stage , there 's a jolly good chance that that show would have actually come to us rather than going there . |
| 6 | ( Calculations show that a million years ago it shone as much the brightest star in the sky , and equalled Venus ; it was closer to us then than it is now . ) |
| 7 | ‘ Without a trade , without a craft , without any values — scrap iron that does not count , rubbish fit only for the waste heap ’ is how Canon Henry Scott Holland summed up the problem : ‘ We the public have used him up : he is no more to us now than a squeezed orange . ’ |