Example sentences of "most [prep] us [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Until 15 or so years ago most of us knew pineapple only from cans — who has n't used chunks to make sweet and sour pork , or rings in an upside down cake ? |
| 2 | would you be willing to scan in the famous ( Fantasy Football League ) page(s) from the telegraph ? several scans ( files ) may be necessary but most of us got tape on the desk … |
| 3 | Similarly , most of us played games during childhood which had connotations of sexual experiment . |
| 4 | Admittedly most of us become egoists in a struggle for mere physical survival , — starving men fighting for food , drowning men climbing into an over-weighted boat ; but it does not follow that we can become egoists from principle in conditions where basic human needs are satisfied . |
| 5 | Most of us dread incompetence . |
| 6 | It is likely that most of the country will be influenced by hose pipe bans during this summer , therefore it will be necessary for most of us to use buckets . |
| 7 | You 've got all the same things in common , you 've all got a baby and you were all under-age when you had the baby and most of us done exams . |
| 8 | Our faces were red and raw and most of us had blisters . |
| 9 | Most of us left school at 16 with four O-levels , including art and needlework , but here was a high-flying Cambridge man . |
| 10 | Mention Abe Lincoln and most of us visualise Raymond Massey . |
| 11 | Surveys show that even in the most sexually permissive of times , fidelity is a value most of us hold dear . |
| 12 | I know there are those who would prefer anarchy to hold sway , but what they do is destroy everything about climbing most of us hold dear . |
| 13 | The following day , most of us visited Bakewell , where we did a river walk , before returning to the college . |
| 14 | In addition , most of us face complexities such as performance appraisal , staff appraisal , course evaluation . |
| 15 | Most of us have difficulty in reading the names of stations as our train rushes past . |
| 16 | Most of us have difficulty working out our own views about sexuality , let alone formulating a public policy . |
| 17 | Most of us have tendencies to pass information outwards rather than to allow it inwards . |
| 18 | Most of us have possessions we want , or have to go on using , so the best thing to do is to take a very positive attitude and use them as jumping-off points . |
| 19 | It is interesting to see that of the Brits farming in France most of us have wives teaching English as a way of earning extra income . |
| 20 | erm I find I 'm not sure that any of us can erm cope with what 's going on at the moment in the Gulf without having just ways of distracting ourselves , erm and I think that perhaps might be more of a problem for adults than it is for children , in the sense that erm most of us have access to more information than most children do erm and more information about what death means , and what suffering means , and what pain means , than erm most children who have been brought up in this country . |
| 21 | T frankly , yes it did , but I mean you were reading it pretty well correctly the way they read I mean most of us read things I know I do myself , one reads things quicker than perhaps some would if we were reading them on a radio or something . |
| 22 | I agree that most of us need work — but I would point out that it is partly because when you 're unemployed and dependent on the state for support , you do n't have enough money to use your leisure time in the way you might want to . |
| 23 | Some may be lucky and fall on their feet quickly , but most of us need time to take stock of our lives and make a calm and realistic appraisal of our needs and potential . |
| 24 | Peer group pressure This influence meets psychological needs in that we most of us crave acceptability — we seek to identify with groups to make sense of our world , and we aspire to join other groups . |