Example sentences of "of us [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But at least for the rest of us Johanna 's lovely face will serve as a terrible reminder that our teenage daughters — however self-sufficient they might seem — are probably more at peril as they blossom into womanhood than they ever were as little girls . |
| 2 | I hope too that a good many of us will with true Somervillian spirit defy the grey hairs and wrinkles and turn up to celebrate our golden anniversary for lunch at Somerville on Sunday September 29th 1991 . |
| 3 | ‘ We 're most of us slaves , ’ Sean said . |
| 4 | Most of us oldies remember Mr , going his rounds with his ice cream barrel , proclaiming his wares to be the best in the world and no Summer was complete without him . |
| 5 | The chances are they are not going to be changed again in a hurry and to saddle ourselves with something that is going to allow the development and perpetuation of something which most of us hero would call bad and unacceptable practice in care of the elderly with dementia , would be a totally retrograde step . |
| 6 | ‘ But suppose none of us matches ? ’ |
| 7 | This year a group of us event riders , went on a return mission to Romania , straight after the final event of the season . |
| 8 | According to market research firm Euromonitor , each of us downs about 150 litres of fizzy pop per annum . |
| 9 | I shall introduce a tiny degree of controversy by saying that some of us south of the border are always envious of the resources and resourcefulness of those north of the border in dealing with such matters . |
| 10 | ‘ If all of us parents pull together surely there must be something we can do to save our children suffering for so long . ’ |
| 11 | Certainly nature 's use of chance , by accident , incident or mutation , is therefore selective and subject to sensitive principles of a physical , chemical , organic and ( many of us suspect ) a spiritual , balance : a universal ecology . |
| 12 | For both of us pen and ink was probably the best means of communication , being the tools of our trade . |
| 13 | It was all quite civilised and there were so many of us girls there that we could take it in turn to do the observations . |
| 14 | I enjoyed the work there — dealing with customers on the phone — there were two of us girls … the other girl was in charge and we had a man over us , but it was between us two … we had to get all the statements out at the end of the month … |
| 15 | I fear the Tory tabloids have made it difficult for those of us anti-Leftists who consider ourselves to be of a more reflective disposition . |
| 16 | The Alastair Burnet most of us recall was a former Daily Express editor with overt links to Margaret Thatcher who was somehow allowed to retain a unique double role as journalist and executive in the monopoly ITV and C4 news operation . |
| 17 | The profanity of his behaviour is captured in an incident when Casey — having just made love again to Annie — invites her to witness ‘ the power and majesty of the Church and the sacrifices it demands of us priests ’ . |
| 18 | We do n't like 16-bit owners making fun of us 8-bit owners , so why should we make fun of the Spectrum ? |
| 19 | They are possessed of a handful of skills and attributes which many of the rest of us lack , such as numeracy , and a general ungullability , and ( presumably ) a penchant for cryptography , so that they can actually penetrate and comprehend the tortuous laws and regulations they must administer . |
| 20 | Unfortunately , that 's the very thing most of us lack ! |
| 21 | There 'll be no work for any of us actors . ’ |
| 22 | Er well there 'd be a lot of us ships there then . |
| 23 | I ca n't say I blame them — for many of us walking is about getting away from the crowds , and summer in the Lakes is not quite the time to do that . |
| 24 | It is remarkable , when you think of what most of us philosophers are like , that he should have had the sheer ability and integrity to elicit such a response from people of such political eminence . |
| 25 | But most of us experience periods of low self-esteem at different times and some — particularly If they have been unhappy in their early life — seem to be permanently stuck with such a poor impression of themselves and their own worth that ‘ self-esteem ’ is to them just a word which applies to other people more fortunate than themselves . |
| 26 | However , the real passage which most of us experience is unpredictable and irregular . |
| 27 | Claims for Accidents or Illness — At some point most of us travel , work or study abroad . |
| 28 | Cloven hooves , pitchforks and horns invoke in most of us laughter or ridicule . |
| 29 | If some of us despair at the seeming lack of real competition to them in Scotland , Hateley 's reaction permits not a whit of concern . |
| 30 | The banker fines each of us $10 . |