Example sentences of "[vb -s] [prep] we [prep] the [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Just to be told what 's going on , what 's in the packet , what the future holds for us in the food game . |
2 | If one accepts such a theory , then it gives a reason to all that happens to us during the course of our lives . |
3 | I believe that the Secretary of State agrees with us about the importance of the future role of the Territorial Army , and I am sure that he will do all in his power to help us achieve that objective . |
4 | There are comparable cases in other areas of culture studies ( e.g. Williams 1961 ) , where what appears to us as the image of one section of society is actually fabricated by a quite different class . |
5 | And that is the erm absence of understanding it seems to us from the County Planning Department of the way the actual market works , and of the need for a local authority area erm in seeking to obtain employment for its people , the need for that area to be able to offer a variety of er employment land both in quality , size and location . |
6 | The knowledge that we now have about fertilization and development of the human ovum speaks to us of the miracle of our existence . |
7 | He nods at us through the car window , then snaps shut the central-locking , making himself secure . |
8 | He frames the petitions in our lips ; and he prays within us to the Father , with sighs too deep for words . |
9 | In this , of the great poet-critics of the past the one he most nearly resembles is Dryden , whose criticism virtually always comes before us as the preface to a volume of original imaginative writing — including translations which , in this too like Pound , Dryden considers no less ‘ original ’ than poems he has made up for himself . |
10 | It is estimated that as much as 98% of dioxin intake by humans comes to us through the food chain , notably meat , milk , fish and eggs . |
11 | In this poem Jnandas addresses God 's messenger , who comes to us in the morning light of our childhood , in the dusk of our day 's end , and in the night 's darkness : |
12 | It comes to us from the age which gave us the Great Charter , and founded the House of Commons . |
13 | Evidence of such allowances comes to us from the time of Augustus Caesar . |