Example sentences of "[prep] we [vb mod] [verb] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The rest of us might put the same thing in much more simple terms by voicing that popular complaint , ‘ When you 've eaten a Chinese meal you feel hungry again in a couple of hours . ’ |
| 2 | Although few of us would expect an Eskimo to react or think in the same way as we do , we are nevertheless continually guilty of the same foolish assumption in regard to nationalities closer to home . |
| 3 | In the terms of the old philosophical dilemma , most of us would save the endangered baby from the house before we 'd save the Mona Lisa — even if the baby were far more likely to grow up an art thief than another Michelangelo or Da Vinci ! |
| 4 | To get the tyres out of the oven two of us would have a long rod each . |
| 5 | Certainly , once committed to a personal code , I can make value as well as factual judgments about your conduct ; but if your first principle is ‘ Do as you would be done by ’ and mine is ‘ Care only for yourself ’ , it seems that there is no objective test by which one of us can convince the other that he is right , as there is for an issue of fact . |
| 6 | It 's alright for some to be able to buy private health care , and then the rest of us can have a diminishing and reducing National Health Service both in Nottinghamshire and throughout the rest of the country . |
| 7 | ‘ He so outdid me , living , ’ said Isambard with a dark and hollow smile , ‘ that even now neither one of us can let the other rest . |
| 8 | None of us can doubt the economic plight of many of the countries where our mission partners work but the relationship of people is every bit as important and visits play a large part in that . |
| 9 | Most of us can name a few particular books , read in the pre-college years , that influenced our choice of science as a life 's work . |
| 10 | We are apparently being drawn to the end of time , to an apocalypse ( which will happen on 21/12/2012 ) at which point some of us will achieve a mystical transformation to a more enlightened realm of being . |
| 11 | All right , I know that one of us will get the inevitable bottle of aftershave , or talcum powder . |
| 12 | Whether we were Members of Parliament in the 1970s or not , many of us will remember the many debates on devolution that took place in Parliament at that time . |
| 13 | Therefore all of us will have a different shape and size of our internal stress glass . |
| 14 | TONIGHT one in five of us will have a sleepless night . |
| 15 | Realeat founder Greg Sams predicts that within 20 years half of us will have a vegetable-based diet , and the greatest swing has been seen among the young . |
| 16 | It is unlikely that any of us could remember the first time we saw our own reflection ( mirrors often form part of toys aimed at very small babies , such as activity mats or cot toys , and there are , of course , lakes , kettles and other possibilities for reflection ) ; what is likely is that it was a member of our family ( probably our mother ) who told us : ‘ That 's you , that 's what you look like ’ . |
| 17 | Not entirely ; to begin with we might take a pragmatic line in the light of new knowledge about the long-term effects of such treatment on a child 's subsequent development . |
| 18 | The example they modelled before us can have a strong effect , either positive or negative . |
| 19 | I thought you 'd on we 'll do a reset and see how it goes , and just leave it if it , if it clears it erm that 's fine |
| 20 | At least your writing to us may prevent the same thing happening to another reader . |
| 21 | Ronny replaces Swindon-striker Fjortoft for the game tonight — Ronny must have done well in the training sessions ( coach Olsen really put some value on how the players perform in training before the games ) and Fjortoft which has been even worse for Swindon than Deano for us might have a hard time to get the attacker place back ( Fjortoft 0 — Deano 3 — Cole 10 is n't it ? ) . |
| 22 | Now I could not countenance , and I 'm sure none of the authorities around us could countenance a new settlement that scale in Greater York . |