Example sentences of "of we [vb past] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Two of us averaged four shoes an hour . |
| 4 | As we walked some of us played Twenty Questions to keep us going . |
| 5 | The thought that both had finished before many of us reached 15 miles was not a cheering one . |
| 6 | None of the rest of us had that kind of head . ’ |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 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 | A quarter of us had four radio sets or more . |
| 10 | ‘ It was only when the police asked them to turn the noise down that any of us had any chance of sleep . ’ |
| 11 | ‘ In the beginning , ’ she said , ‘ when these children were uplifted , none of us had any idea what a national scandal we were dealing with . |
| 12 | It was then a question of waiting to be called up and none of us had any idea how long this would be . |
| 13 | 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 |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | The Chief-Corporal in charge shouted out that if any of us had any sisters , we were to stand up . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | But apart from Charlie , none of us had high expectations ; we had a combination of miserable expectations and wild hopes . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | Each of us invested ten shillings and we met to decide our bets . |
| 22 | I resent the inference in your questions that one of us visited that apothecary and secured the poison to carry the murder out . ’ |
| 23 | Partners have already er had that training er during the er during the summer months er it was carried out by er an outside consultant and most of us subjected ourselves to the se selling course , I think most of us derived some benefit from it . |
| 24 | From breakfast until the three of us cracked late-night beers , the place grooved to Aretha and the other mamas . |
| 25 | I learned to canoe years ago when three of us put borrowed boats in the water at Glasbury and pulled them out , finally , several days later at Tintern , having gone down the Wye . |
| 26 | Neither of us paid much attention . |
| 27 | Four of us fished that night and four of us blanked . |