Example sentences of "[prep] we [art] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | Oh aye , they warmed tae us a treat , wance they saw we didny look down on them . |
2 | Below us the landscape shone in great brown-and-white patterns like the coat of a well-groomed piebald horse . |
3 | Down below us the river was gleaming . |
4 | Below us the lights of the City did what they were good at , they just sat there and twinkled . |
5 | Below us the forest of Dividal is visible . |
6 | We drove off to another barracks in Lille where we were taken individually into an office occupied by a portly Major ; he handed each of us a pile of papers and we were told to sign each one at the bottom . |
7 | The two-parter was also fun as it gave all of us a chance to act in conflict and be a bit more expansive , because otherwise , if you think about it , all we were doing most of the time was feeding lines to other people . ’ |
8 | We 're all as the good Lord made us and some of us a sight worse . |
9 | Fortnight at each house , with each — all seven of us … with each of us a fortnight , each time , each of us in turn . ’ |
10 | Obviously , for most of us a guitar like this would be a once-in-a-lifetime purchase ( for some , a never-in-a-lifetime ) but the LSE is in fact very , very good value for money . |
11 | He has given each one of us a ministry . |
12 | " We 're most of us a bit hard of hearing in here , dear , " said the knitter . |
13 | I look at him — when I can bear to and frankly if you can persuade him to use a clean T-shirt you 'll be doing all of us a favour — I look at him and I remember dear little chubby hands clutching one , and the way their faces used to smell of soap and milk . |
14 | Ahead of us a headland loomed out of the mist like the prow of a huge ship . |
15 | Small enough to swim under and around , large enough to support a man , and big enough to teach all of us a lesson . |
16 | I remember going to 's school , and er they put in front of us , I were very young , put in front of us a lot of s colours , cottons . |
17 | as you know with dint of great effort , got er , the er , scheme off the ground , which has taken a lot of , all of us a lot of hard work , er , and we 're proposing other schemes at Bexford House . |
18 | I hope , then , that this report on those who matriculated in 1966 will give some of us the opportunity to renew some of those special friendships — formed at a peculiarly impressionable time of our lives — with those with whom we have failed to keep in touch . |
19 | Perhaps the book of lamentation is not the book you normally turn to , to find words of encouragement , but there are tremendous encouragements to be found in it , listen what the profits says there , in the third chapter , he says this I recall to my mind , and he 's talking about the time of his own affliction , the time when he is going through it , the time when nobody loves him , the time when everybody 's against him , when he 's suffering and he 's in pain the time when life is full of bitterness for him , he says this I recall to my mind , therefore I have hope , the lords loving kindness indeed never ceases for his compassion 's never fail and here Jesus is demonstrating that , he 's compassion 's never fail , he 's loving kindnesses they never cease , here in his dying hour Jesus is showing that in reaching out to this man but as we said the other week the , the deepest , the most important significance of what Jesus did then , of what Jesus said then , its not just of the historical account , but that he is able and willing to say and to do exactly the same today in your experience and in mine , what he did for that man on the cross he 's ready and willing to do for every one of us the incident may of happened nineteen hundred years ago , but there 's the old hymn , the verse reminds us , picks out that very story and it says the dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day and there may I , though via us he wash all my sins away , and that verse from William Cowper 's hymn , it takes up that great historical event , that tremendous happening in that man 's life and he links it with a present and it applies it to you and to me and says this can be our experience as well . |
20 | I I do n't mind , but I 'm opposing , as like the rest of us the budget in |
21 | We have grown used to some kind of safety net , extended beneath us in Western countries , even if for some of us the holes seem to be getting bigger by the day . |
22 | Suddenly we were into daylight and right ahead of us the waters of the Jequetepeque ran brown and white , the river 's level close under the rails of the girder bridge as it flowed , deep and very fast , through the gorge . |
23 | But for the last fifty years or so for most of us the experience of the church has been declined and closer and reducing number of people with dog collars . |
24 | Ahead of us the land fell away , became green , then brown , then evolved into a crazed fretwork of islands and sea-lochs , lakes and strange peaks . |
25 | Looking back , it seems a marvel that the houses surrounding the Greencroft were never set on fire — the residents must have suffered very anxious hours , but for the rest of us the sight of so many fires all blazing away was one never forgotten . |
26 | Sadly nothing can be cone without ideas , and ideas need people to produce them , so I extend an appeal to all the people who may read this and pray that God might give each of us the sight to see where we are needed .. |
27 | To most of us the location of boundaries is self-evident but , surprisingly , boundaries of an object are far from obvious in the raw visual image which consists of a continuously varying distribution of light intensities across the retina . |
28 | We had been eight weeks in basic training and even in the most placid of us the qualities of self preservation and selfishness were coming to the surface . |
29 | Although he may not agree with what I have said , and what I am about to say , he should at least extend to all of us the courtesy of sitting quietly in his seat , especially if he joins us at such a late time . |
30 | You must know how he 'd give any of us the moon after he 's been — not himself . ’ |