Example sentences of "[prep] we a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I am suggesting an arrangement which I believe might bring both of us a great deal of pleasure . |
| 2 | Christmas is for most of us a magical moment in the year when we gather with our families , sing familiar carols and see the delight in the eyes of the children as they open their stockings and presents . |
| 3 | It was for both of us a temporary refuge from a reality which was n't giving either of us much joy . |
| 4 | First he would give each of us a whole penny ( for ice-cream at the terminus ) . |
| 5 | One standing at the entrance gave each one of us a little push at the right moment for the walk across in front of the platform to another gentleman standing in the middle . |
| 6 | I suppose that makes the rest of us a little bonkers . |
| 7 | Wilkerson bent down and handed each one of us a big ice cream carton . |
| 8 | There is , however , deep within all of us a natural ability to find pattern in random form , as demonstrated by the Rorschach ink-blot test , and research by Philip Reeder suggests that certain forms on the map tend to be picked out consistently as zodiac material . |
| 9 | Behind us a long chain of tiny lights danced slowly away from the refuge towards the col du Chardonnet , as last night 's occupants resumed the Haute Route . |
| 10 | Now spent , exhausted , heavier than ever , we pull ourselves off this fun-float , this transport of delight , to see beneath us a crushed flower , a stamped upon camellia , its pollen and sap smeared like blood on the infertile ground , the dry ground , the any old iron , lurking-tetanus ground . |
| 11 | He shared with us a singular fascination for tropical waters and everything in them , and had acquired the franchise for scuba equipment for the whole of the Moluccas . |
| 12 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
| 13 | Humphrey Lyttelton recounts : ‘ We brought along with us a strong contingent from Camberwell Art School , and John Minton , now recognised as a distinguished painter , was among the most formidable and dangerous of the first school of dancers . ’ |
| 14 | Are we no better than snails , to carry round with us a whole house of past circumstance ? ’ |
| 15 | All the experiences of life are remembered in such exact form that it would seem that we possess inside us a high fidelity recorder . |
| 16 | I hope you will feel , as I increasingly felt during the research , that we who play today owe all those before us a great debt of gratitude . |
| 17 | The Secretary of State put before us a whole catalogue of countries that have ballistic missile capability , and a substantial number of them appear to have embarked on a nuclear weapons programme . |
| 18 | It ends : ‘ Lord , cast on us a favourable eye . ’ |
| 19 | Monsieur Brisset arranged an appointment for us , and later that day Paul Ingouf , in his office , passed to us a typewritten page from the secret daily record that had been kept during the war ; listed there we saw : |
| 20 | ‘ She seemed to us a shining light , who did a lot for Liverpool . |
| 21 | It seems to us a good time to tap our shareholders . |
| 22 | He has given to us a new name we 've take his name we belong to him . |
| 23 | Loch Ranza opened to us a complete change of scene : there were houses , a church , an inn , and even the old castle was allowed to retain its site , and guide the fishers in their homeward course . |
| 24 | The preservation qualities of the Somerset Levels have demonstrated to us a wide range of prehistoric woodworking skills and the uses to which wood was put , not only for use in trackways ( Fig. 5 ) hurdles , and so on , but also for making artefacts . |
| 25 | The possibility of achieving the semblance of virtue by working at standing high in the teacher 's estimation , seems to us a perfect nursery for the acquisition of the criminal or exploitative view of the social world . |
| 26 | There is , however , something of a quantitative scale whereby the more important to us a particular belief may be , the more subtle and even ambiguous will be the evidence for it . |
| 27 | All these came together and seemed to us a clear call , which we shared with the church . |
| 28 | If you have practical skills that you would like to offer in this context please speak to Ronnie Martin or myself and let us all continue to pray that we will have released among us a glorious team spirit in this area of involvement . |
| 29 | Take advice from experienced traveller Simon Hooton — who 's tested for us a wide range of outdoor clothing currently available — and build up ( or take off ) the layers to cope with everything that 's thrown at you . |
| 30 | Those were for us a real burden . |