Example sentences of "[prep] we [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The young , in their turn , will have to look after us one day . |
| 2 | It turned out that IUE detected ultraviolet light from the edge of the ring that is tilted towards us 80 days after Supernova 1987A erupted . |
| 3 | All of Bouton was there , while far below us small sailing craft packed with more celebrants were still arriving from the outlying islands . |
| 4 | P.S. Would you please , please , put Jennifer Capriati in your Sweetspot in the next issue for all of us Capriati fans out her . |
| 5 | By contrast the Sergeant Major has already finished , and is jogging on the spot with an air of contempt for the rest of us mere mortals . |
| 6 | Plus , for the rest of us mere mortals : Boat race fever , a month to go … and counting . |
| 7 | When Harold Skimpole declares to him that ‘ The owners of such places as Chesney Wold … are public benefactors … good enough to maintain a number of delightful objects for the admiration and pleasure of us poor men ’ , Sir Leicester receives the compliment as no more than his due . |
| 8 | Between the two of us clever bastards , we 've opened the bloody door , that 's what ! |
| 9 | For the rest of us wanting function as well as fashion , they measure up fairly well . |
| 10 | My parents were too poor to be able to give one another a birthday present each year , though there was always a present for each of us four children , Stanley , Laura , Edith and myself . |
| 11 | All of us young people , even unbelievers , had been taking an interest in Thomism . |
| 12 | We know it 's none of us new boys , so — ’ |
| 13 | He fussed for a while over a large teapot , pouring both of us outsize cups of tea . |
| 14 | Some exorcisms , for example , describe conditions which today would be thought of us mental illness or , in some cases , epilepsy . |
| 15 | Of us suffering children , under such strain , |
| 16 | I go into them and make faces at all the animals and ask them what they think of us daft humans standing there staring at them . |
| 17 | Surely God is more aware than any of us that marriage involves two basically selfish sinners in a commitment to each other . |
| 18 | We worked very hard , and most of us that season appeared in Oxford at least twice . |
| 19 | We used to some of us other boys we 'd go down to the banks and the Winter time . |
| 20 | ‘ Well , it comes to all of us one way or another . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ Must come for all of us one day . ’ |
| 22 | When the grandmother was in her eighties and widowed , ‘ we went religiously one of us each day , one sister and another , each day . |
| 23 | This is a typical list of waste produced by every one of us each year . |
| 24 | In a limited way we can understand this , because for all of us certain dates stand out with striking significance . |
| 25 | The three of us remaining thought it would be simple to replace him but , after various attempts , failed to do so . |
| 26 | Thank you again for your efforts keeping all of us far-flung graduates in touch and thanks too for considering my seconding of Anne 's proposal . |
| 27 | He well deserved the sentence he got , but to many of us five life sentences do not seem quite enough for what he did to our youngsters . |
| 28 | ‘ Their strongest disagreement , at least in public , is about the origin of us modern humans . |
| 29 | But he would be shocked and saddened by how utterly selfish most of us so-called Christians are at Christmas when there is so much hunger and grief in the world . |
| 30 | Well , as Messrs Waugh and Ingrams could confirm , that 's just the sort of treacherous , duplicitous behaviour one has come to expect from young people today ( just as this shameless betrayal of an employee is typical of us incipient oldsters ) . |