Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mushroom Bookshop and Airlift go back a long way , to the days when both of us attracted unwelcome police attention for some of our more esoteric wares . |
| 2 | Editor , — J Michael Dixon postulates that most dental surgeons previously had both NHS and private patients and would thus have been able to act in the Robin Hood pattern that some of us remember general practitioners adopting before the introduction of the NHS . |
| 3 | Also , although people may have eaten more visible fat , today , most of us eat enormous amounts of invisible fat in cheese , other dairy products , processed foods , biscuits , cakes , chocolates , pies and pastries . |
| 4 | I show the snippet to Tony and the resulting peals of laughter from the pair of us bring disapproving stares from all over the plane . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | But apart from Charlie , none of us had high expectations ; we had a combination of miserable expectations and wild hopes . |
| 7 | When we hear the word ‘ power ’ some of us make strong associations with fear , deprivation and a loss of control . |
| 8 | A decade after the Scarman report on Brixton and on the evidence from our more troubled communities , this is no time for any of us to strike traditional postures . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I think most of us have due respect and regard for proper procedure in that regard . |
| 11 | Both of us have full day-time employment which is also fairly demanding of much of our spare time . |
| 12 | All of us have different levels of tolerance to the demands on our mental energy . |
| 13 | Each of us have different ways of trying to express this change . |
| 14 | Well it would several of us have rheumatoid arthritis |
| 15 | Most of us travel long distances by schedule or charter flights , cramped together in ranks of seats Where there is n't enough room to stretch out the' leg , let alone walk about as passengers on the Empire Flying-boat or Zeppelin observation platforms could . |
| 16 | Because few of us possess universal skills , we learn to value one another 's and to look for the unexpected amongst our colleagues ( the music teacher who is a professional photographer , the lab technician skilled in electronics ) ; and because teachers must necessarily concentrate mostly on what is pre-eminently their task , the design and communication of learning experiences , we value those para-professionals able to concentrate on related areas , such as the production of resources from our basic design , and the collection and organization of recorded information and communication in all formats . |
| 17 | Many of us carry full donor cards in favour of our surviving fellow humans . |
| 18 | From breakfast until the three of us cracked late-night beers , the place grooved to Aretha and the other mamas . |
| 19 | I learned to canoe years ago when three of us put borrowed boats in the water at Glasbury and pulled them out , finally , several days later at Tintern , having gone down the Wye . |
| 20 | Most of us begin married life filled with hope and resolve . |
| 21 | Some of us give correct answers and some of us give incorrect answers , but we 're always consistent , you see ? " |
| 22 | Some of us give correct answers and some of us give incorrect answers , but we 're always consistent , you see ? " |
| 23 | What complicates this state of affairs is that none of us has perfect recall of the past . |
| 24 | I wonder which of us has Yorkist sympathies . |
| 25 | It is not easy to achieve the recommendation of the HMI document The Curriculum from 5 to 16 , that pupils should be able to use what they learn for their own purposes , because each of us has different purposes in life , and what is relevant to one pupil will not be relevant to another . |
| 26 | The only way forward for this great union is for all of us to recruit new members , so all of us must take this responsibility seriously . |
| 27 | Behind us lay bleak fenland with its fertile silty soil which , since the Roman times , has been reclaimed by degrees for agriculture . |
| 28 | Above us hung new crystal chandeliers announcing the growing wealth of the place . |
| 29 | Well first of all I think there are a number of intangible benefits which accrue from us making new contacts outside the University , and tackling and discussing new problems in different areas . |
| 30 | But it was a flop , and Wilcox moved on from US to make successive deals with Universal and RKO . |