Example sentences of "[prep] we [prep] the [num ord] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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1 | Kernaghan , seeking a transfer this summer from relegated Middlesbrough , said : ’ I 'm pleased and relieved because I blamed myself for the goal Albania scored against us in the last match . |
2 | Others were with us for the first time — students from the Darlington area . |
3 | Will my hon. Friend confirm that , if the Government were to introduce proposals to toughen up sentencing policy — to impose stiffer sentences — we could look forward to Opposition Members agreeing with us for the first time ? |
4 | We 'll be previewing the new speedway season , there 's a look at the greyhound news and a round up of all the local leagues , so stay with us for the next hour . |
5 | He went away a lot , with his work , but he 's been back with us for the last year or so , off and on . ’ |
6 | ‘ But we can take heart from the Celtic and Leeds results and carry a lot of optimism with us into the first leg in Germany . |
7 | If you were with us at the last occasion of this sort , the last centenary lecture on Gerter , given by Professor Corby , you will remember on that occasion erm he provided a focus of illumination in a period of power cuts , economic gloom and all the rest of it . |
8 | he 's not , he 's not , he 's not a , he 's not stupid , Christopher , he , he 's certainly not stupid , and er he must have seen , I mean I assume he keeps his bank statements , I mean I 'm afraid we have one or two bank statements which show thousands of pounds that he 's received from us over the last year erm and , you know , he ca n't blind because they 've all gone through his bank account , you know , he must |
9 | In each of Jesus ' beatitudes , God 's blessing comes in the first line , and is then followed by the effect of this blessing on us in the second line . |
10 | Er , yes , it 's a requirement for the actual length of the contract on us in the first place but the second point is that , in the tender documents , we 've actually asked all the contractors to price all the different permutations , whether it 's seven cuts , eleven cuts , hundred millimetres or a hundred and fifty millimetres . |
11 | You will also find a splendid array of fine performers who are coming to us for the first time — many surely due to be favourites of the future . |
12 | perhaps , you 'd speak to us at the next council meeting , then . |
13 | Henniker and I were to be taken up to Mr. Ingard 's room , Spalding and Miss Robinson were to go to the offices allotted to us on the second floor . |
14 | One of the marvellous things about this record is that there 's so many references to all sorts of things that have happened to us over the last couple of years . |
15 | Most of my new friends were paras , and we used to sit around listening to our Sergeant-Major , who had been seconded to us from the 3rd Battalion after an exemplary performance in the Falklands . |
16 | Because , about a week before John drew our attention to that matter of concern , I had prayerfully chosen a theme for tonight , based on the set gospel — the passage that has just been read to us from the first chapter of John . |
17 | He is presented to us in the first instance , and decisively , but his failures , his weaknesses , his inadequacies . |
18 | He speaks directly to us in the first person and he expresses something very like fear and even self-pity , the distress of the poet , seeing himself as a kind of natural victim , and it may be the distress of the puritan living on after the Restoration and afraid of the wild route , which is Charles the Second 's court , though I think we can be a little sceptical of this and we certainly do n't know with sufficiently accuracy when Paradise Lost was written . |
19 | He 's a very contented baby , a joy to his parents and big sister , and today at nine weeks old ( 40+3 ) , he smiled at us for the first time . |
20 | But the way Wycombe came back at us in the first game should serve as a warning that it will not be easy . ’ |
21 | Our job is to go over there and come back with a result which keeps everything alive for us in the second leg at Parkhead . ’ |
22 | Sometimes the contrast is not so clearly expressed for us in the twentieth century as it would have been in the first century , so we have to rely on commentaries to point out the way that the apostle was thinking . |
23 | The rough had been allowed to get really high and that was n't good news for us in the first round . |