Example sentences of "[prep] us had [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 . |