Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] [adj] [noun pl] " 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 | Two of us averaged four shoes an hour . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | As we walked some of us played Twenty Questions to keep us going . |
| 7 | The thought that both had finished before many of us reached 15 miles was not a cheering one . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The Chief-Corporal in charge shouted out that if any of us had any sisters , we were to stand up . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | But apart from Charlie , none of us had high expectations ; we had a combination of miserable expectations and wild hopes . |
| 13 | It 's just a question of us getting three points , that 's all that matters . ’ |
| 14 | Many of us ignore these things . |
| 15 | When we hear the word ‘ power ’ some of us make strong associations with fear , deprivation and a loss of control . |
| 16 | Each of us invested ten shillings and we met to decide our bets . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | All of us have different levels of tolerance to the demands on our mental energy . |
| 22 | Each of us have different ways of trying to express this change . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | The rest of us travel those kinds of journeys vicariously , slumped in a winter armchair reading accounts of Himalayan kingdoms reached only by months of walking , or of chucking in the job , mortgaging the house and sailing to the spice islands with oriental pirates . |
| 25 | We are in chaos here until we get all Angela 's work redistributed , we 're all of us doing five things at once . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | After we had docked , a representative of Inflot , the Russian equivalent of Trinity House , apologetically asked each of us to sign more documents . |
| 28 | Obviously a figure higher than that would take some pressure of us to make those incursions into the green belt , a lower figure conversely would require us to make higher la larger incursions into our greenbelt . |
| 29 | From breakfast until the three of us cracked late-night beers , the place grooved to Aretha and the other mamas . |
| 30 | The response to this ad has illustrated what many of us suspect these days : there is in our industry a great wealth of under-utilised talent and experience which , far from regarding itself as unemployed and job hunting , is highly entrepreneurial and self-reliant . |