Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This dry pattern will continue into tomorrow but the cloud I 've told you about in Scotland will wander down towards us bringing some thicker cloud for a while . |
| 2 | Some of us contemplate this prospect with horror . |
| 3 | For all of us listening this was a spur to further ‘ action with the world 's poor ’ . |
| 4 | When we are together there 's no competition ; neither of us feels better than or inferior to the other . |
| 5 | would like to say er er and that is though councillor urges us to be more totally er which went on the housing committee I think it would be very wrong of us to do that , leaving that er the vote at the end of that particular debate was unrelated to and er these democracy that 's er situation . |
| 6 | No , none of us got that one right to start with |
| 7 | There was a gang of us , but I mean er if one of us got involved with a fight it was him and him . |
| 8 | I just think it 's sick that , if the three of us got ill or had an accident right now , we 'd be broke . |
| 9 | Those who were looking forward to Col. Savill 's repeat of his much acclaimed talk last December ‘ The Summer Timetables of 1939 ’ , which some of us missed due to last year 's influenza epidemic or because of other engagements will be pleased to hear that Col. Savill has also agreed to give this talk at a future date . |
| 10 | I wonder if we 've got twenty five pound voucher there would be some oh greed at the front you know , and there was a , all of us attended this meeting and that 's every single person in the building and I bet there was fifteen maximum twenty , that was all that was left in the whole building |
| 11 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 12 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 13 | Two of us averaged four shoes an hour . |
| 14 | Many of us remember that experience from the days of the Labour Government , many of whose Ministers are now in another place . |
| 15 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |
| 16 | Also , although people may have eaten more visible fat , today , most of us eat enormous amounts of invisible fat in cheese , other dairy products , processed foods , biscuits , cakes , chocolates , pies and pastries . |
| 17 | From her , most of us acquired good French accents . |
| 18 | I show the snippet to Tony and the resulting peals of laughter from the pair of us bring disapproving stares from all over the plane . |
| 19 | He said : ‘ Can any of us answer that question ? ’ |
| 20 | Many of us become hot under the collar over local issues , whether it is poor transport services , an objection to the proposed siting of an amusement arcade opposite where we live , or the lack of sports and other social facilities . |
| 21 | Will we all have long-term careers within one company , or will more of us become self-employed , maybe operating on a free-lance basis from electronic offices in our own homes ? |
| 22 | The rest of us use this time to make or mend kit , and to read up on possible areas to visit come the Spring . |
| 23 | As we walked some of us played Twenty Questions to keep us going . |
| 24 | The thought that both had finished before many of us reached 15 miles was not a cheering one . |
| 25 | We finally made it to the road and sped along towards the village in a cloud of dust , the three of us crouching low in the jeep . |
| 26 | Some of us know all about that . |
| 27 | For some , Saturday and Sunday merged into one , but the rest of us managed some well earned and undisturbed sleep . |
| 28 | Clearly , conscious processes are central to an individual 's own experience , but most of us remain neutral as to whether they are central to cognitive processes given that many , if not most , of these are not conscious . |
| 29 | Most of us remain unaware that our Christian faith — however real to us — has already been divorced from the mainstream of modern life . |
| 30 | Very few of us remain confident of our personal power in every situation and with every sort of person . |