Example sentences of "[prep] we a [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The man with his ar his hands up in the air walked towards us a few paces and then P C ordered him to go down onto his knees slowly and then consequently end up on his chest with his arms outstretched . |
2 | I am suggesting an arrangement which I believe might bring both of us a great deal of pleasure . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | It was for both of us a temporary refuge from a reality which was n't giving either of us much joy . |
5 | First he would give each of us a whole penny ( for ice-cream at the terminus ) . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | I suppose that makes the rest of us a little bonkers . |
8 | Wilkerson bent down and handed each one of us a big ice cream carton . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | 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 . |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | There is one who has been with us a long time — but then those are old maids of course . |
14 | 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 . ’ |
15 | Are we no better than snails , to carry round with us a whole house of past circumstance ? ’ |
16 | He 'll be with us a few days . |
17 | We are not claiming either that He has somehow implanted in us a sixth sense that gives us certainty He exists whilst our other five senses provide no such assurance . |
18 | All the experiences of life are remembered in such exact form that it would seem that we possess inside us a high fidelity recorder . |
19 | 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 . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | It ends : ‘ Lord , cast on us a favourable eye . ’ |
22 | 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 : |
23 | ‘ She seemed to us a shining light , who did a lot for Liverpool . |
24 | It seems to us a good time to tap our shareholders . |
25 | He has given to us a new name we 've take his name we belong to him . |
26 | 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 . |
27 | 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 . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | This happened to us a few years back . |
30 | 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 . |