Example sentences of "to come [conj] [verb] us " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'll ring up Uncle Bean , and ask him to come and fetch us , ’ Nutty decided , but the Nicholsons had no phone and the nearest call-box was past the cinema in the town-centre . |
| 2 | ‘ I would have thought that he , as local MP , would have managed to come and visit us , even though he is busy . ’ |
| 3 | It 's far more attractive than watching a tractor and we like to encourage people to come and visit us at Westonbirt . |
| 4 | And they used to come and give us the pattern , what the butler got to lay on the table ; the tea-service would be the same pattern as the tablecloth was . |
| 5 | ‘ Yes , I wish to leave , and I want you to come and show us the place where those two corpses were found . ’ |
| 6 | A year , a month , and a day on from our first meeting , the 18–30 group is holding a welcome event for all those who would like to come and meet us and find out more about the group , and maybe throw your ideas into the pool . |
| 7 | Already stratagem has worked , in that 3 ladies ( not beautiful Brazilian brunettes ! ) have offered to come and cook us a meal next Wednesday — a Japanese meal which sounds like a mixture of harakiri and kamikazi , but I hope it will taste nice as the person cooking it is Japanese — there are lots of Japanese in this part of Brazil . |
| 8 | ‘ You are welcome to come and inspect us any time you like , ’ he was saying . |
| 9 | I 'm gon na have to get Tony to come and pick us up . |
| 10 | I still think you 'd do better to come and join us . |
| 11 | Thank you all very much indeed and thank you particularly for making an effort to come and join us at the A G M , apart from the fact that it would be tedious in the extreme to look at an empty room , I do understand |
| 12 | Well I 'm delighted to see so many of you have taken the trouble to come and join us today for yet another annual public meeting and in welcoming you can I give a particular welcome to our new chairman Mike Betts , thank him very much indeed for joining us . |
| 13 | Hello do you want to come and join us ? |
| 14 | We 'll just looking at the big book together do you want to come and join us ? |
| 15 | We need some of the younger , newly retired to come and join us in the fight to restore the dignity and security that should be there for everyone in the autumn of their lives . |
| 16 | Yeah and my sister in law used to come M my brother 's wife used to come and help us with the cleaning at night . |
| 17 | Now what I 'd like to do today is to erm take you round the house in a moment or two , see what you think of it and really to treat this as something whereby you see if you want to come and help us . |
| 18 | He 'd do all the slaughtering , do all that sort of business , but he would n't er he did , he used to come and help us Fridays and Saturdays but he 'd rather be up the farm on his tractor . |
| 19 | ‘ Father always kept in touch with Peter and he planned to come and see us when he got leave from France , where he was stationed . |
| 20 | But if you are still in the UK for the four days from July 15–18 , put a note in your dairy to come and see us at this year 's Art in Action at Waterperry House , Wheatley in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | The funny thing was that on the day of the theft a man who often used to come and see us , and was generally regarded as a friend of the house , had been and invited the entire family Zina , myself , and both our son and daughter somewhere miles out of town to go and have a barbecue . |
| 22 | I often used to go and see him , and he used to come and see us . |
| 23 | Lakes and mountains , beaches and islands , friendly hotels and Renaissance grandeur , there is honestly so much that you will simply have to come and see us year after year . |
| 24 | They never used to come and see us much . |
| 25 | ‘ I 'm sorry we ca n't ask you to come and see us again , but we live very quietly . ’ |
| 26 | So , if any of you would like to come and see us at the salon we will both be there and very happy to see and answer any of your questions . |
| 27 | We started our investigation by asking Robert to come and see us , we prepared for his visit by hiding a camera in this umbrella , which lay on top of a brief case . |
| 28 | Don do n't to be afraid to come and see us again , alright ? |
| 29 | Erm tt there 's er one point I would like to make , when I , when I made that comment about she 's only the wife , and I 'll just clarify why I said that and this is it 's amus a few years ago some , somebody who was , we were taking a policy out with right was , came to me and was , was talking and making arrangements to , to come and see us and he patronisingly said erm and your husband 'll be there , and I patronisingly said back , and you 'll be bringing your wife , because of the way that he came across to me and I , I mean |
| 30 | You 'll have to come and see us again some time . |