Example sentences of "come to us " in BNC.
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| 1 | I moved slightly and beckoned the German to come to us . |
| 2 | We did not go in search of miracles , we invited them to come to us . |
| 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 | ‘ We need time to debate some of these issues , to decide what new appeal , what fresh approach we make to those voters who have not yet been persuaded to come to us , ’ he said on BBC TV 's On the Record programme . |
| 5 | Apart from the fact that it 's not the way we like our work to come to us , it has provided some other difficulties . |
| 6 | We want people to come to us and ask us to develop systems to order . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | ‘ The game now is too big to run your own administration in an amateur way , sit back and think big companies are going to come to us ’ . |
| 9 | ‘ I believe we suffered the downturn because of the way in which we kept our clients up to date , insofar as when the recession hit , our clients did n't need to come to us because the Revenue was on their backs . |
| 10 | If we practise and wait , eventually they 'll have to come to us . ’ |
| 11 | What a mystery it is , the way we carry on , thought Liz , as she moved on to more congenial entertainment : remembering , suddenly , the oft-repeated claim of an Austrian refugee analyst of her acquaintance , who frequently and unashamedly rejoiced in having had in his house at one time no less than five Nobel Prize winners , a claim which she had always found endearing , ridiculous , foolish , alarming , comic , in its nai¨veté , its precision , its ruthlessness : remembering the alarms and excitement of her own early encounters with the famous , the great , the titled , the rich : remembering the ancient yearning to crowd her life with people , with voices , with telephone calls , invitations , children , friends of children : remembering , in short the dread of solitude , the dread of reliving her mother 's unending , inexplicable , still-enduring loneliness : and across these memories , flitting in a half second , as she made her way , for light relief , towards Kate Armstrong , fortifying Kate , came the question — why did Henrietta Latchett , who must have been invited to a hundred parties tonight , who could never have known a lonely evening , why did she choose to come to us ? |
| 12 | War was n't going to come to us . |
| 13 | In the village he was told to come to us because we came from Yugoslavia too . |
| 14 | ‘ When we decided to start Headline , we felt that we had to identify a position for ourselves in the market , to persuade agents to bring their authors to us , authors to come to us , booksellers to support us . |
| 15 | In research for the advertising campaign — where we carried out in-depth , face-to-face interviews with senior representatives of 50 existing and potential customers — we looked at existing attitudes and probed them on what it would take to persuade them to come to us to answer their problems . |
| 16 | Erm , we 're not ready with the proposal yet , because obviously we have n't had anything to come to us . |
| 17 | And I think the way forward is perhaps to have a meeting with R and D and for them to come to us and discuss with us the aspects of work that we will not be in a position to do come the revolution . |
| 18 | Never wait for the customer to come to us . |
| 19 | 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 ? |
| 20 | 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 |
| 21 | That ai n't , that ai n't basically it , you do n't wan na do it , that is the main thing , I mean you never been one for wanting to go , I mean even when we lived in Jersey and you ai n't got any idea how small Jersey is , Val and John used to come to us , but we never went to Val and John 's , it 's hell all mighty getting him out , if I do n't go on me own , I do n't go . |
| 22 | And you instead of taking the instead of going as far as the traffic lights to come to us , you take the exit before that which is |
| 23 | Yes , that , that 's , that 's very much part of it , but we want , you know history 's only , only made by people , it 's made by every , you know , all of us really , so you know , we 're asking for groups now to come to us and say , you know , ‘ we want to do a project on X to do with the motorway ’ , and we 'll be prepared to , you know , back it up as much as we can . |
| 24 | Now to be honest if they had come to us first we would have got them into another union the t&gwu or ACTT but having said that , one thing we should knock on the head straight away . |
| 25 | Now she has come to us . |
| 26 | ‘ If you had n't come to us , we would have come to you , ’ the colonel receiving the journalists said . |
| 27 | Jane had come to us for the time being . |
| 28 | ( She had come to us when our heads — |
| 29 | Probably many of us have treasured letters containing gems of spiritual guidance which have come to us when the writer could not , or during times of personal need or crisis . |
| 30 | They have come to us from a time before recorded poets . |