Example sentences of "[prep] us [verb] [adv] [conj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yes erm how can I say , we were invited Manchester University er to speak at dinner time , four of us went up and I was nominated as the speaker . |
| 2 | Both of us went down and rolled off the hard , wet pavement into the gutter , but it was me who cracked the back of his head en route and me who got a boot in the stomach which even my US Navy parka did little to cushion . |
| 3 | ‘ Obviously if all five of us went out and walked past a school at home time , we 'd be asking for trouble . |
| 4 | Some of us went along and parked at Welshpool Station and took a look at the narrow-gauge line 's original terminus where it connected with the Cambrian Line . |
| 5 | A week later I took two children and the three of us got there and back for £40.50 , which does seem a comparative snip . |
| 6 | Are all the rest of us to give up and sit on our hands rather than serve humbly where we deserve ? ’ |
| 7 | All of us pick up and accumulate lead , distributed around the environment from car exhausts . |
| 8 | We have no official tea break but sometimes one of us goes out and gets tea for the others . |
| 9 | The four of us drifted in and out of sleep for a further few hours , then , miraculously , at about 4 pm , the fog lifted and the rain ceased . |
| 10 | For breathless , white-knuckled moments the five of us clung there while the rhythm abated , then three of us laughed loudly , one of us scowled , and the other nearly lost his liquids . |
| 11 | We all know that it happens , but none of us know how or why . |
| 12 | We must none of us go alone until we get to sea . |
| 13 | It 'll be necessary for all of us to go back and look at those very very carefully and to think to what extent they address the kinds of problems that we can actually see developing , the kinds of things which we are fighting our way away from in the statutory services and yet might find that they are growing in an uncontrolled way in the development of the private sector . |
| 14 | None of us knew exactly where we were , so the captain decided to continue sailing eastwards , where we had never been before . |
| 15 | After trading what were to become stereotypical insults about bourgeois middle-class women and hard left male domination , a very large number of us walked out and from then on abandoned the formal conference altogether . |
| 16 | I do n't feel comfortable about the prospect of us standing up and swearing oaths which neither of us intends to keep , ’ she told him . |
| 17 | It 's hardly as if one of us turned up and the other did n't . |
| 18 | You see , four of us going up and down twice a day , morning and evening , makes sixteen times altogether , and Mr Evans thinks that 's quite enough traipsing . |
| 19 | But I mean I , I see no point in all of us going out and looking for presents . |
| 20 | And cer the determination of the women , that we were n't gon na be starved back to work , we were n't gon na be forced back to work , we were n't just gon na end in chaos and some of us going back and some of us staying out , I think it was the women possibly talking to their husbands or , and just reassuring each other , you know that helped us no end . |
| 21 | It 's not like one of us going in and not |
| 22 | Of the forty of us who had survived so far , another twelve were weeded out and the rest of us sat there until 6.00 pm looking at the posters on the walls and reading the few tattered paperbacks which sat on the shelves . |
| 23 | Yeah , they have got problems and that 's why erm , people like us come along and try and help them . |
| 24 | They wo n't mind odds-and-ends like us clearing off but they wo n't want to lose you . |
| 25 | Often the night 's play begins with us going out and helping Jews . |
| 26 | His career with us ended abruptly when he incurred a nasty knee injury in the game at Watford in the last day of 1938 and was unable to play again that season , so that there are still fans at Selhurst Park who will tell you that that loss cost Palace the single promotion place to Division |
| 27 | Jon believes that this beautiful world was put before us to travel around and explore . |
| 28 | Some colleagues wrote to us to point out that the format of the main LITE questionnaire did not contain room for the kind of statements and categories which could display the situation in which they were working to develop the competence of their colleagues , both to enhance the strategies for promoting community languages in their area , and to raise general awareness of the deep educational implications of linguistic diversity . |
| 29 | The number of people involved in the sort of work there was er something like twelve to twelve and fifteen people er added up er responsible for A B C. So it did n't make any sense to us to think well if Leeds have got a million pound practice there , why have we got nothing here . |
| 30 | Then one day the main guy who 'd been peeking at us turned up and asked if he could take some pictures of us . |