Example sentences of "[noun] who [verb] [prep] we [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the sake of our fans who stood by us through the lean years , I would love to bring it to Cliftonville . ’ |
| 2 | ‘ Those fans who stayed with us through all the shit are really great , but the general rank and file sort of faded away rather quick . |
| 3 | Or at least , we are told so daily by politicians , police , judges , and journalists who speak to us through the media of newspapers and television . |
| 4 | Choco who came to us at about seven years old . |
| 5 | Five years after the revolution Lenin complained that the Communist Party had good political control only over the top echelons of the vast bureaucracy : ‘ Down below , however , there are hundreds of thousands of old officials who came to us from the Tsar and from bourgeois society and who , sometimes consciously and sometimes unconsciously , work against us ’ ( quoted in Merkl , 1977 , pp. 166–7 ) . |
| 6 | My family in Nottingham entertained a friend who stayed with us for several days . |
| 7 | Below is a selection of excerpts from letters sent by holidaymakers who travelled with us during 1991 : |
| 8 | I have a very eccentric aunt who comes to us for Christmas , flying visits . |
| 9 | Daily contact with infants in the crèche ( next to the sixth-form coffee bar ) , the elderly , the frail , the physically and mentally disabled , employed people who come to us for literacy support or computing courses , active retired people attending daytime A-level classes , members of the community using our library , students on the threshold of professional careers in music playing with non-too-gifted amateurs engaged in recreation , academically-gifted students about to enter university engaged in social work with our special-needs students , has perhaps given us an unusually clear insight into the different ways people need and want education and the different circumstances in which it enriches their lives . |
| 10 | So all these people who lecture to us about democracy should really examine the situation it 's got nothing to do with democracy whatsoever when less people are entitled to have a say . |
| 11 | She is very pleasant and helpful , and also Comrade Yu , a young teacher with plaits who looks after us in Sian and acts as interpreter . |
| 12 | Red Water Arts also draws upon the expertise of other professionals who work with us on a freelance basis . |
| 13 | Passers-by are frequent : children to and from school , neighbours shopping , horse riders , and frequently friends who waved to us through the windows . |
| 14 | We lead more private lives today than ever before , a defence perhaps against the masses who press against us in the tubes , in the office , at school . |
| 15 | There are three small boys who call on us from time to time , ‘ just visiting ’ , as they put it . |
| 16 | In a ’ Dear Colleague ’ letter circulated to all Members of Parliament , the Secretary of State for Education and Science warned us earlier in the year to beware of students who came to us during the recess pleading poverty . |
| 17 | We 've had four three-legged dogs over the years : Bless-her , who was born with a hind leg missing ; Belle whose front leg was amputated at seven weeks because of a ligament problem ; Tulley , a road accident victim who came to us at nine months old and fought for 18 months to keep his damaged front leg . |
| 18 | ‘ The guy who scored for us at Wembley , Kjetil Rekdal , is mad about English football . |