Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Some of us contemplate this prospect with horror . |
| 2 | I wonder if we 've got twenty five pound voucher there would be some oh greed at the front you know , and there was a , all of us attended this meeting and that 's every single person in the building and I bet there was fifteen maximum twenty , that was all that was left in the whole building |
| 3 | I think all of us wish this epidemic would go away , and that it would n't touch us and that it were only small numbers , but the news today clearly shows that it affects each and every one of us . |
| 4 | Many of us remember that experience from the days of the Labour Government , many of whose Ministers are now in another place . |
| 5 | He said : ‘ Can any of us answer that question ? ’ |
| 6 | The rest of us use this time to make or mend kit , and to read up on possible areas to visit come the Spring . |
| 7 | None of the rest of us had that kind of head . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 10 | ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with . |
| 11 | It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be . |
| 12 | 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 |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The Chief-Corporal in charge shouted out that if any of us had any sisters , we were to stand up . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I 'm not leaving you here all alone , so it 's a case of you either coming with me , or of me staying here for the rest of the night and neither of us getting any rest . |
| 17 | Few of us felt any sympathy for them , because apart from the beatings which we had received on their accounts , we all knew the rules by now , and being caught and failing in any way was wrong . |
| 18 | Many of us ignore these things . |
| 19 | Minch would have to shut him up and calm down Slorne herself until eventually she would quieten herself down and let the rest of us get some peace and quiet . ’ |
| 20 | We were so confident of each other 's love that should one of us make that final , selfish decision the other would feel his friend 's sense of loss even more keenly than his own . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Not all of us have such skill . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | Even the poorest of us have some money in our pockets some of the time . |
| 26 | All of us have some Candida yeasts in our gut . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Few of us have any idea of how much water we use on an average day . |