Example sentences of "[prep] we the [noun] " in BNC.

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1 Below us the landscape shone in great brown-and-white patterns like the coat of a well-groomed piebald horse .
2 Down below us the river was gleaming .
3 Below us the lights of the City did what they were good at , they just sat there and twinkled .
4 Below us the forest of Dividal is visible .
5 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 .
6 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 .
7 I I do n't mind , but I 'm opposing , as like the rest of us the budget in
8 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 .
9 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 .
10 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 .
11 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 .
12 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 .
13 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 ..
14 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 .
15 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 .
16 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 .
17 You must know how he 'd give any of us the moon after he 's been — not himself . ’
18 It contained much of what the country needs to get out of recession but not enough to give any of us the confidence to believe that the recovery is about to begin .
19 Every step forward requires of us the abandonment of the past .
20 For many of us the practice was sternly discouraged in our childhood and , without doubt , many of us still feel embarrassed or ashamed by our own " indulgence " .
21 sort of feel you know , I mean , I 've known people where , I mean , it was like us the day we moved in here
22 Like us the water had started days before on the snowy rim of the Tichka Plateau .
23 When we close the bedroom door behind us the noise level does not reduce .
24 We are reborn in God , leaving behind us the continuity of our earthly and parental life .
25 Behind us the mug standing beside the tail car was yawning and looking at his watch .
26 Behind us the shouts and exclamations grew as the scarlet stain spread .
27 Above us the sky is beginning to turn from black to purple , and the walls of the canyon are faintly visible as immense dark shapes looming overhead .
28 Above us the cliff grew steadily larger , until , where the slabs eased , it assumed its full height , silhouetted and jutting the odd ramp glinting amidst shadowy walls of Vector-like steepness .
29 Above us the fronds of the palm trees clattered in the warm wind , while out to sea Bonefish 's ragged and patched sail dipped in the steep waves beyond the reef .
30 We camped on the edge of the moorland among magnificent red-tasselled hagenia trees and clumps of yellow flowering St John 's wort ; above us the mountain was covered with giant heath ten feet and more in height .
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