The phrase "propose to us" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when you are asking someone to make an offer or plan for consideration. For example, "The city council has asked developers to propose to us a new plan for building more housing in the area."
Some actions that are proposed to us are to occur at the time of proposal: as I am singing, a friend might propose that I stop singing right now.
Speaking to French newspaper L'Equipe, he said: "He has been proposed to us.
Spy proposed to us the concept of Without Limits through a presentation.
"We proposed a lot of interesting things, and had a lot of interesting things proposed to us, and ultimately we didn't do anything," Cashman said.
"It was never on anyone's list -- it was never proposed to us," said Terri Rosen Deutsch, spokeswoman for the landmarks commission.
And as the shells and gunfire rained down, international MSF staff in Kunduz called US officials in Kabul and Washington "through agreed channels that they had proposed to us," Christopher Stokes, MSF's general director, told the Guardian.
Sponsored Deals are proposed to us by other retailers, manufacturers, and even other daily deal sites.
But we went ahead and signed up for Ad.ly last year to see what kind of ads might be proposed to us.
Hence the problem was proposed to us by the Company at the Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop (see Chen S, Gustafsson J, Marcotte O, Morfin M, Pugh M: Improved optimization for a testing system with two mobility layers, in Proceedings of the Fields-MITACS Industrial Problem-Solving Workshop, forthcoming).
This problem was proposed to us by a company that makes a system for testing ECBs and is looking for an efficient way of planning the tests on any given ECB.
