Example sentences of "[prep] we have [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | None of the rest of us had that kind of head . ’ |
| 2 | If the same thing had happened after World War Two , when many of us had six years of war , we would all have crept under the table and wept . |
| 3 | We neither of us had much interest in contemporary British poets , but were united in our enthusiasm for Elizabeth Bishop , Marianne Moore , W. S. Merwin , Wallace Stevens , William Carios Williams , Charles Reznikoff , Theodore Roethke and Richard Wilbur . |
| 4 | A quarter of us had four radio sets or more . |
| 5 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 6 | ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with . |
| 7 | It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be . |
| 8 | and erm he was always talking about erm different types of lathe and chucks and things like that and er , none of us had any idea what he was |
| 9 | None of us had any idea what observation meant , but we had to write down a sentence or something we had noticed on our way to school . |
| 10 | The Chief-Corporal in charge shouted out that if any of us had any sisters , we were to stand up . |
| 11 | Only eight of us had any sort of previous military experience : Marius , myself , Chris , a German from Oberammergau who had killed a tourist in the celebrations surrounding the Passion Play , a Frenchman , Mike the Rhodesian , and a Portuguese and a Rumanian who had both served with their countries ' airborne regiments . |
| 12 | However , I stayed a bit longer and when all the girls , all of us had three months ' notice to leave , it was dreadful , you see , because we were fully trained by that time you see . |
| 13 | The same unfortunate landlord returned a few days later as we were playing forfeits , and made no mention of the fact that one person was in a bra and panties with a colander on his head , another had wellingtons on filled to the brim with curdled milk and the rest of us had false moustaches drawn on with an indelible black magic marker . |
| 14 | But apart from Charlie , none of us had high expectations ; we had a combination of miserable expectations and wild hopes . |
| 15 | We have come to terms with the fact that most of us have subtle differences which determine the strengths and weaknesses of our make-up . |
| 16 | I think most of us have due respect and regard for proper procedure in that regard . |
| 17 | Yet in everyday terms most of us have little difficulty using a quite specific meaning of the term ‘ politics ’ seeing elections , party competition , parliamentary majorities and the composition and deliberations of cabinets and parliaments as the heart of British politics . |
| 18 | Not all of us have such skill . |
| 19 | We need the theory concept behind the method and we need to build in that people can think , digest , analyze , because as we 've seen by nature most of us have higher reflector scores than we do the pragmatist and the reflector are higher than the theorists and the activists all have a tendency . |
| 20 | Few of us have much time to spend on lavish flower arrangements , but this innovative little book will show you how to create stunning yet simple displays . |
| 21 | Both of us have full day-time employment which is also fairly demanding of much of our spare time . |
| 22 | In other words , most of us have some element of the " other " sex in our make-up and most of us have some degree of homosexual feeling , whether we like it or not . |
| 23 | Even the poorest of us have some money in our pockets some of the time . |
| 24 | All of us have some Candida yeasts in our gut . |
| 25 | In other words , most of us have some element of the " other " sex in our make-up and most of us have some degree of homosexual feeling , whether we like it or not . |
| 26 | I do not speak of the substance of the matter because so many of us have some doubts about the substance of it and we shall come to that later , but erm it does seem to me that er we had to get rid of erm sections two , two A and three of the Police Act nineteen sixty four as amended and that clearly doing so here and erm er er I I think that this is an improvement as a result on the laws that er present appears on the Statute Book . |
| 27 | That 's fine , for those with the courage to do it , but most of us have enough shocks in midlife when we catch sight of ourselves fully clothed . |
| 28 | Few of us have any idea of how much water we use on an average day . |
| 29 | All of us have different levels of tolerance to the demands on our mental energy . |
| 30 | Each of us have different ways of trying to express this change . |