Example sentences of "to us [conj] it [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So our involvement was for it to be presented to us before it came to this meeting . |
| 2 | Perhaps it is not remarkable , after all , that no poet should have described this world to us before it expired , described it in language that would bring home to us what kind of world it actually was and how its inhabitants looked upon it , for it was above all a peasant world and the peasant was inarticulate . |
| 3 | Sight is so important to us that it dominates the way we perceive the sensory worlds of other animals , and even dictates the vocabulary available to describe those worlds . |
| 4 | The Chopinesque left-hand arpeggios , the repeated chords of Mozart and Beethoven , Strauss 's waltz rhythms , popular song accompaniments ( with bass on the downbeats , chords on the upbeats ) , and so on — all are already so familiar to us that it has seemed superfluous and pedantic to describe them . |
| 5 | We fired another one but the container broke and the vaporized stuff , it was vaporized er with the explosion , blowed on to us and it burnt . |
| 6 | That is , it is open to us to deliberate about the light that this fact throws on the person 's character ; but deliberation is not open to us when it comes to parsing the sentence . |
| 7 | In my retelling of the Divine Drama I have made use of primitive mythological ways of speaking because I do not believe that we have a better language that is available to us when it comes to understanding God 's revelation as story — as the great epic of salvation . |
| 8 | Oh well that 's up I think that 's up to us because it fits in with in our aims and objectives . |
| 9 | The analytical approach is useful to us because it makes us familiar with the parts and the way they work together . |