Example sentences of "of they [verb] us [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They are fed in onto this global trunk circuit erm from many feeder lines , sometimes by radio , sometimes by telephone , but they get in onto the very high-speed trunk circuit , and of those eight and half thousand observations made every hour , it takes between four and five minutes for six and half thousand of them to reach us at Bracknell . |
| 2 | I do n't know how many vote with their feet in going elsewhere , but few of them challenge us at home . |
| 3 | Books can be dangerous because the reading and writing of them involves us in an exercise of intellectual freedom . |
| 4 | We almost wished we could ask one of them to join us for a meal . |
| 5 | Each one of them tells us about a different aspect of the creature . |
| 6 | There are arguments for all possible positions , but none of them convinces us for long ( see chapters 1 and 5 ) . |