Example sentences of "[prep] we [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watches after us with evident satisfaction , as we teeter back to the stadium much the worse for the experience . |
| 2 | Four golden heads ( six if you count the retrievers ) turn towards us in mild surprise . |
| 3 | It looks at Willie and shunts over towards us in disinterested stages . |
| 4 | It was not therefore surprising if , on our last day of excavation , we saw from our elevated position men on horse and foot making their way towards us from all points of the compass , and we were told after our departure the top of the hill was crowded with visitors . " |
| 5 | Puffins buzzed below us with short wings whirring , zooming out to sea and back , to disappear into holes in the crumbling top layer of boulder clay . |
| 6 | In the course of ordinary domestic , family and work-place life , each of us voluntarily gives our name and address to a wide range of agencies , authorities and individuals , usually in expectation of a service ; in addition , of course , we are each of us under statutory obligations to give personal details to agencies of central and local government , whether as employed persons , voting citizens , rate-or-tax-payers or licensees ( of TV , dog , car , etc ) . |
| 7 | S. H. There was a lot of us on reserve duty at St George 's Hall , about forty or fifty of us , and one bloody bobby sat there with us and they sent for him . |
| 8 | A great fuss was made of us on that trip , according to my mother . |
| 9 | When you think that each person produces roughly 21 lbs of rubbish per day and there are 55 million of us on this island using non-returnable bottles and indestructible plastic containers , it is not difficult to imagine the mountains of refuse that we shall have to deal with somehow . |
| 10 | And that 's true , but it 's often forgotten that some of us on this side of the fence also play professionally — they say teachers are failed musicians and I suppose many people see music journalists as those not good enough even to teach ! |
| 11 | Erm I 'm er rising to take the opportunity to sum up the debate er for those of us on this side of the house and to say that on this side of the house we do welcome these orders actually coming through , delayed though they are and er besmirched though they are by the usual examples of government incompetence in failing to send them to the scrutiny committee in the proper manner to allow the usual processes to take place but wi that 's par for the course these days . |
| 12 | There have been two of us on this morning . |
| 13 | I think the few of us on this list who have our reservations about Sgt Wilko are going to have to ‘ grin and bear it ’ , because in my opinion he 's going nowhere . |
| 14 | Queen Margaret stood at the head , the rest of us on either side . |
| 15 | There were now two miles uphill ahead of us with good views of mountain scenery . |
| 16 | Those of us with long memories would place Henry Cooper 's two fights with Muhammad Ali and his defence of the British , European and Commonwealth heavyweight titles against Joe Bugner way above it for class and public interest . |
| 17 | By the time I was released we were very overcrowded — over 90 of us with 10 children as well . |
| 18 | The complex also has a variety of restaurants , and a disco bar where those of us with any energy left after a hard day 's sport were able to relax the night away ! |
| 19 | This is already the position of many Christians in the world today , and those of us with more freedom now may well experience it before the end of this century . |
| 20 | Those of us with sensitive noses caught the rank whiff . |
| 21 | The training was not very comprehensive and was really only intended as an introduction to the cutters , but we all enjoyed ourselves as I recall , although a few of us with previous experience considered ourselves as veterans . |
| 22 | The boy said nothing , only looked at both of us with wide-open eyes , but there were no tears despite the pain . |
| 23 | Doug Wimbish started playing harmonics on that funny Guild bass ( the rubber-stringed Ashbory model — Ed ) and I got down to a really quiet moment , and suddenly Phil just surprised the hell out of us with this keyboard patch ! |
| 24 | With the vision of Robert Emmet and the crucifix in mind , could the PIRA not stop to ask how they — or any of the rest of us for that matter — may redeem the bitter legacy of centuries by adding to it ? |
| 25 | There 's one teacher , he seems to have had a personal interest in each one of us for five years . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've turned her loose in the hotel boutique , ’ Roman murmured , ‘ so she wo n't want either of us for some time . ’ |
| 27 | And er then he took it back of us for some reason . |
| 28 | ‘ Outrageous ! ’ was the cry ; ‘ We 've always had our Medau here — Some of us for twenty years ! ’ |
| 29 | Er and then we had about , ooh there 'd be about ooh twenty of us to four bathrooms . |
| 30 | What 's more , UVA is solely responsible for polymorphic light eruption , known to most of us as prickly heat . |