Example sentences of "us have [art] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | About the earliest years , when we are most impressionable , none of us has a conscious memory . |
| 2 | It is widely acknowledged that about one in ten of us has a marked tendency to homosexuality and perhaps half this group have homosexual experience as adults ( homosexual feeling and experiment are even more common in adolescence ) . |
| 3 | If either of us has a psychological disorder , distortion of our perceptions of each other is increased . |
| 4 | Hardly a week goes by now without us having a new champion … central south sport has never had it so good … this week we 've the European champion of champions to toast … the name is Sue Wright … the game is squash … and this is the Friday Feature |
| 5 | It is not only advantageous for us to know which of a horse 's emotions are destructive to us having a good working relationship with it ; but ideally , if we also consider horse will do more for us and give us greater pleasure . |
| 6 | Once I got the hang of it , I had been telling myself smugly , there would be nothing to stop us having a marvelous time for a glorious night and a day … |
| 7 | Let us have a general election . |
| 8 | We went along to a ballooning club and pestered people to let us have a free flight . |
| 9 | In a satire of 1710 , Charles Davenant had his character of a Court Whig say to a country squire : " Let us eat out all your Lands and Tenements with Taxes of our devising ; let us have the sole Management of a long protracted War , and gather our wonted Fruits from it " . |
| 10 | Just as characters in the plays switch from Thou to You and back in a way that seems to us to have no evident rationale , so in the Sonnets Shakespeare uses both forms indifferently , and indeed switches from one to the other within one poem ( Sonnet 24 ) . |
| 11 | Will my right hon. Friend please confirm that it is absolutely necessary for us to have a minimum deterrent so that the people of the United Kingdom are safe ? |
| 12 | ‘ It is vital for us to have a good Christmas , ’ said 25-year-old Dozzell . |
| 13 | ‘ Time for us to have a little chat , sir , ’ Hatchard said to me . |
| 14 | ‘ Anyway , I want us to have a little talk now . |
| 15 | I had our fee in my pocket — enough for us to have a magnificent seafood dinner at a place just off the Gran Via , with a couple of bottles of wine . |
| 16 | " Relative prominence " implies that for us to have a rhythmic response to a piece of language we must perceive some of its constituents as strong and some as weak relative to each other . |
| 17 | Well I would think the Council would be delighted to have those details in front of it for us to have a full discussion and to make it known but thank you Councillor for all those details . |
| 18 | One thing that he did make very clear at the end was that if we thought of other things that he should know about , or it would be helpful for him to know about , we should contact him , so he 's left it very open for us to have an ongoing contact which I thought . |
| 19 | Will my right hon. Friend consider rearranging next week 's business to enable us to have an urgent debate on industrial relations , bearing in mind that our reforms over the past 12 years have brought industrial relations to a new level of success ? |
| 20 | Precisely for this reason it is impossible for us to have an ideal plan . |
| 21 | We used to do it almost as a social thing , a conventional Spanish gesture which for us had a special meaning — or at least it did for me , because I looked upon it as a seal on our friendship . |
| 22 | In Chile Pinochet knew the power of photography ; each one of us had a secret service guy . |
| 23 | One of us had a wonderful night , but somebody else decided to disrupt it . |
| 24 | The generation above us had a hard time . |
| 25 | On the Saturday Mum grabbed the opportunity to head for the shops , while the rest of us had an interesting time choosing a tennis racquet for Roland to give to me for my birthday — a generous present and already in use . |
| 26 | Most of us have a major problem when faced by a very unpleasant character who is screaming like an animal or explaining how he is going to separate us from parts of our body . |
| 27 | Most of us have a certain elation after a successful ‘ performance ’ which relaxes inhibition and stimulates perception . |
| 28 | And most of us have a general sense that things are pretty gloomy for people in the Third World : we might remember that Sudanese women must walk hours in search of firewood , that Brazilian peasants are still going hungry , that children are dying all over the world of something as simple and easily treatable as diarrhoea . |
| 29 | Obviously no academic course in Britain is geared towards working class Blackwomen 's experience across the board , but so many of us have a vast appetite for knowledge — for a herstory . |
| 30 | Many of us have a special tune or song that conjures up a particular time and place whenever we hear it , or brings back a flood of memories , but we may have no way of celebrating it . |